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Featured battle : Geisling
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 17 April 1809
A tiny engagement but typical of the actions of the Austrian 'Streifkorps' raiding and disrupting the French lines of communication. This kind of action caused many French troops to be 'wasted' in guarding supplies in transit.
Featured image :
City of London Volunteers in South Africa.
A photograph by Underwood and Underwood entitled "City of London Imperial Volunteers just arrived at the Orange River, South Africa." showing another of the different types of uniform worn by British forces in 1900.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion - Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Lochrie, Alex
There are quite a number of memoirs out there of men attracted by the legion, and I've read most of them. Luckily, this one ranks quite highly amongst those I've read. The author manages to join the legion at quite an advanced age - 38 - and so brings a different viewpoint to the training and life as an older man.
His training and experience as a member of their special forces is usual for this kind of book - he serves in Tchad, Bosnia, Desert Storm, but he becomes a technical specialist in photographic techniques and brings a sensitivity to his writing that is sometimes lacking in others. It's a more thoughtful book, and should be a good addition to anyone's Legion library.
Pen & Sword Military, 2013
Reviewed : 2015-05-27 20:14:20
