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the name of The Africa Auxiliaries.** Recruited from men of every enuntry in Earope, the Legion Elwaners helped to conquer Algiers for France. Then, we arg toll, there was need of builders of citter. So the pinnaira set to work, and in French Northern Africa thaish Europeau building in ovary city was built by these ighting exiles." The writer goes on to tell of the later record of the Legion:
In the Crimean War treaty-nine officers and men of the Legion were mentioned for bravery, as the battles, of the Alma and Inkermann in the dispatches General Canbent. Their losses in the campaign were enormous, and Napolem III, rewarded them by naturalizing many of their officers and men. Hardly had they returned frons the Crimea when they were crdered to fight: the Aigerian Arabe in the grant Arab expedition. Again they were "wanted;. these morconaries bought for a half- penny a day, and again they kept their: bargin with the French-at Magenta. Two
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into action at Orléans, and on the conclusion of peace they assisted in putting down the Commune. From then until 1883 .the legionnaires were comparatively peaceful in Africa, but at that date they started for the murderous climate of Tonquin, where, As usual, they paid their grim reckoning with Franco. In 1892 they fought in
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A record of personal experience is given by Mr Erwin Rosen in his recent book, In the Foreign Legion." The daily routine be-nu with the famous Legion's breakfast," which has cost many a man bis) lung.
In the form of a wide square we went round the drill-ground, fire minutes, ten minutes-in, dense, un, deux-lwaye in sharp time. The corpo, a splendid runter, ma at the head, teaching us the trick, on which everything depended here, to overcome the critical moment of lung exhatistion-to ret the
"Recond wind." Even if the breath me and" weul in short, pumping gaps, if the eyes painel, and one commenced to stumble from exhaustion, one ran on ut the lungs had got used to the extra Partion, fantil one had the feeling of being a ranchine and could go runding for over. The case the command: "A relunté ! (As you please 9)," and a mer faished thirty minutes' exercise.
This "breakfast" Lasymbolic of the whole life of the Legion. The words "March or die are a familiar proveru Says Mr Ronen:
Eren General de Négrier, the only com- mander tint the Logion fored, because he loved the Legion and know how to come into personal touch with "cach-légionnaire, knew no mercy in the matter of marching. When he was commander of the Foreign Legion: he did everything in his power for, bis troops. Each, légionnaire wus: allow- ed to come to him with his personal athin; every
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10 say could do anything if they were put
to it. That famdus soldier, who know his légionnairer so wall, claimed that he could
build an engine with them, that he could get together the faculties of a university frums their ranks which contained man who
could not only fight their way through a campaign hot aluo write its history
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