5th Foreign Infantry Regiment:Tonkin Regiment The 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Tonkin Regiment, is a regiment of the Foreign Legion created in 1930, under the Third Republic, and dissolved in 2000. Its history is marked by participation in the Second World War and the conflicts of I
The Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE) was a French military unit of the Foreign Legion. It was created on November 11, 1915 by merging the 2nd March of the 1st Foreign and the 2nd March of the 2nd Foreign (71 officers and 3,315 non-commissioned officers, corporals and legionnaires). I
Camerones fight The account of the Battle of Camerone has been read in these terms at every commemoration on April 30 since 1931:The French army besieged Puebla.The Legion had for mission to assure, on one hundred and twenty kilometers, the circulation and the security of the convoys. Colonel Jean
French army corps. Following the conquest of Algeria, a number of foreigners residing in France expressed the wish to serve in the French army. King Louis-Philippe ratified this wish by the ordinance of March 10, 1831 creating the Foreign Legion, which in a way took over from the Swiss Guard of the
The Royal Stranger The 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) has the particularity of being the only Foreign Legion regiment specializing in armored combat. It is the cavalry regiments of the 6th Light Armored Brigade. Coming from Mers el-Kébir, he was stationed at Quartier Labouche in Orange from
The 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) is the oldest of the regiments of the Foreign Legion. He has been stationed in the Vienot district of Aubagne since 1962, when he arrived from Sidi Bel Abbès. Created in 1841, it is the dean of the Legion regiments. Beyond this historical aspect, the 1er RE represe
Meanwhile, the city of Ismailia and the beach were lit up. The innumerable tents which covered the banks of the freshwater canal, itself covered with the dahabiehs (Nile boats) which had transported the families of the pashas and those great notables of Egypt to Ismailia, formed a line of light whic
After the Muslim prayer, the Grand Ulema read a speech. A Te Deum was then sung by the Christian clergy and the ceremony was closed with a long speech by Bishop Bauer.In the evening, the celebration continued with a fireworks display given by the khedive, and by the illumination of Port-Saïd all str
A certain number of sovereigns or allies of sovereigns had responded to his call:the Empress of the French, the Emperor of Austria, the Prince Royal of Prussia, the Prince of Holland...The isthmus was soon to be the rendezvous of hundreds of scholars, writers, artists, delegates by the elite of all
Lesseps beamed. A platform had been erected facing the channel from which the waters entered the basin of the Bitter Lakes. Thin mobile beams were arranged along the sluice-spillway, and workers stood on a footbridge, ready to remove them to allow the water to pass. The khedive gives the signal, and
1869 — Lesseps won the game. The canal is practically complete; only a few million cubic meters remain to be cleared, an insignificant quantity compared to what has already been removed. A commission of scholars and practitioners was set up to examine the conditions for the operation of the canal, a
The Malakoff Tower (actually:Malakhov) is a defense of the city of Sevastopol in Crimea It was erected at the top of a hill facing the ramparts to defend the city against a possible attack by the English and the newly allied French, in the early 1850s. It was named after a former Russian captain wh
Siege of Sevastopol (1854) Date October 17, 1854-September 11, 1855Location Sevastopol, current UkraineIssue Franco-British victory Belligerents France United Kingdom Russia Commanders General François Canrobert (replaced by General PélissierLord Raglan Admiral Vladimir Kornilov (replaced by Admi
The Battle of Malakoff, opposed during the Crimean War, the French and Russian armies on September 7, 1855 and is part of the battles that took place as part of the Siege of Sevastopol. It ended with a French victory (France was then allied with the United Kingdom) under the orders of General MacMah
Date September 20, 1854Place On the banks of the AlmaIssue Franco-British Victory-Turkish-PiedmonteseBelligerentsBritish, Turkish, Piedmontese and French Coalition Russian Army CommandersGeneral of Saint ArnaudLord Raglan Alexander Menshikov Forces presentBritish:26,000 infantry1,000 cavalry60 gun
Battle of Balaklava Date October 25, 1854Location Off Balaklava (Black Sea)Issue British VictoryBelligerents United KingdomFrance Russia Commanders Lord RaglanLord CardiganLord ScarlettJacques Leroy de Saint ArnaudFrançois Certain Canrobert Pavel LiprandiJabrokristki Forces presentAbout 20,000
However brilliant these spectacles were, they drew their principal interest from the greatness of those who were the guests of France. Alexandre remained a little gloomy; he kept the affronts close to his heart, and the most attentive consideration, the most delicate marks of respect succeeded badly
The cavalry offered a spectacle still more varied by the picturesque mixture of sabretaches, needles, aiguillettes, hairstyles of all kinds. We saw the carabinieri with their cuirass adorned with a golden sun, the lancers with the strange schapska, which recalled the Polish regiments of the First Em
With all of its marvels, the Exhibition offered a spectacle that could hardly have been equalled. She attracted people. But above all it attracted princes and kings.They all came there. The first to be seen were the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Queen of Portugal, the Grand Duchess Marie of Ru
Those who entered the palace rarely followed the logical order indicated by the catalogs. Coming into one of the radiating paths and approaching the center of the circumference, they went straight to what shone, to the mirrors of Saint-Gobain, to the porcelains of Sèvres, to the carpets of the Gobel
The Battle of Narva was the first major battle of the Great Northern War. In this war, Sweden was fighting alone against huge Russia, its traditional rival Denmark and the united Poland-Saxony. The Russian Tsar Peter the Great had tried to make his still medieval country a modern European power.
Surely the reader remembers that article that we dedicated to the Challenge of Bordeaux, framed in the context of the wars that the French Carlos de Anjou and the Aragonese Pedro III maintained for the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily, which finally remained in Aragonese hands. But the rivalry contin
Admiral Thierry dArgenlieu (in religion:Father Louis de la Trinité O.C.D.), born and died in Brest (August 7, 1889 - September 7, 1964), was a sailor, Carmelite religious priest and French resistance fighter. Childhood, training and early career From a bourgeois Picardy family established in Argenl
The new discovery is based on the knowledge handed down by generations of indigenous communities about the clash two centuries ago. For thousands of years the Tlingit settled in the islands of southeastern Alaska , but at the beginning of the nineteenth century they came into contact with a gro