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Updated: May 28, 2025
In the tap-room of a low pot-house in the Rue au Beurre, dimly lighted by a tallow candle, she saw two drunken Turcos and a woman.
She sends us ten times more fire-eaters than the Conscription does. Five fine fellows of the vieille roche too joined to-day, because she has stripped them of everything, and they have nothing for it but the service. She is invaluable, Cora." "And there is not much to look at in her either," objected a captain, who commanded Turcos. "I saw her when our detachment went to show in Paris.
We forced our Turcos to descend and enter the ambulance, though from their protests I judged they would have much preferred a continuous passage to the country beyond Ypres.
"He is a Chasseur d'Afrique?" she asked the Moslem. "Yes, madame. I think he must have been something very different some day." She did not answer; she stood with her thoughtful eyes gazing on the worn-out soldier. "He saved me once, madame, at much risk to himself, from the savagery of some Turcos," the old man went on. "Of course, he is always welcome under my roof.
We passed a very disagreeable night. The trenches were wet and unpleasant and the incessant shelling made it impossible to move. Several wounded Turcos in the trenches kept moaning like fretful children. Every time a shell burst there was a hideous chorus of groans and wails from them.
Most of the trains were decorated with boughs, and presented a gay appearance as, filled with the little line men, the sunburned Zouaves, swarthy Turcos, gay hussars, or sober artillerymen, they wound slowly into the town. Some of the trains were less gay, but were not less significant of war.
His victory over British and French Democracy would be a victory of Militarism over civilization; it would literally shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Leave it to our official fools and governesses to lecture the Kaiser, and to let loose Turcos and Ghoorkas on him: a dangerous precedent.
It was a little after noon when the regiment halted on the Saint-Avold highway, blocked in front by a train of Guard artillery, and on either flank by columns of infantry voltigeurs, red-legged fantassins loaded with camp equipment, engineers in crimson and bluish-black, and a whole battalion of Turcos, scarlet fez rakishly hauled down over one ear, canvas zouave trousers tucked into canvas leggings that fitted their finely moulded ankles like gloves.
Even the soldiers who were scattered here and there a few Linesmen, a few Zouaves, a few Turcos, some of them invalided from MacMahon's forces eagerly joined in the universal cry, and began to follow the guards on to the Place de la Concorde.
The Turcos were a bad lot fighting, gambling, and stealing from each other there was trouble with some of, them every day. The Russians were dirty, good-natured, and stupid. The English well, frankly, he was surprised at their lack of discipline and general unruliness all except some of the Indians, and those, he must say, were well-trained fine fellows and good soldiers.
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