Word: trinquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless, said huge, tanned Lieut. General René Cogny, French commander in Morocco, just back from the region last week: "I am not worried about the military problem. But what...
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