Brutal Firsthand Account of the French Foreign Legion’s Assault On An Algerian City (1837)

French Army assaulted the city of Constantine in Algeria

In 1837 the French Army assaulted the city of Constantine in Algeria. A captain leading elements of the French Foreign Legion named Achille Leroy de Saint-Arnaud led a charge into the city and later wrote of his intense account of the battle in a letter to his brother.
 
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