Roussel de Courcy, Gen
Royal United Services Institution (Brit)
Rteb plain
Rue d’Allemagne, Paris
Rue de Belleville, Paris
Rue des Bois, Paris
Rue de la Chappelle, Paris
‘Rue Dominique’ – see French War Ministry
Rue du Faubourg du Temple, Paris
Rue de Flandre, Paris
Rue Peyronnet, Paris
Rue du Pré St Gervais, Paris
Rue de Puebla, Paris
Rue Ramponneau, Paris
Rue de Rivoli, Paris
Rue Royale, Paris
Rue Saint Maur, Paris
Rue Sécretant, Paris
Rue de Tourtille, Paris
Ruffier, Lt
Ruhr, the (Fr-occupied Rhineland 1919>)
S
Safsafte
Sahara desert
Saida
Saigon
Saint, Res-Gen Lucien
St Cyr (officers’ academy)
St Florent
St Germain
St Louis de Sénégal
St Maixent (infantry NCOs’ officer academy)
St Pelagie prison, Paris
Sainville, Capt
Sakalava people
Sakaramy
Salonika
Samory Touré
Sanjurjo, Gen (Span)
Saro, Gen (Span)
Sarrail, Gov-Gen
Save
Schmidt, Pte
Schmitt, Capt
Schneidereit, Pte
Schoeffer, Maj
Schoenberger, WO
Scohier, S/Lt
Sebdou
Sedan
Seewald, Pte Gustav
Sefrou
Segonzac, Marquis de
Segou
Sehoul forest
Seine Volunteers
Selchauhansen, Lt Christian
Selghert
Senadja Srir people
Senegal
Senegal river
Sènés, Ensign
Senussi rising
Sérant, Capt
Servières, Maj de
Settat
Seven Pagodas
Shaamba people
Sharifian Army – see Maghzan troops
Shervington, Col C.R.St L. (Brit)
ships: Anfa; L’Annamite; Bien Hoa; Chandernagor and Cormorin Drôme; Galilée; Hindoustan; Jules Ferry; Liban; Mytho; Oxus; Pei-Ho; Shamrock; Thibet; Ville de Saint-Nicolas; Vinh Long, Ch 7 n(30)
Si Brahim
Sidi Abdallah
Sidi Abd el Kahman
Sidi Ahmet
Sidi Ali ben el Mekki Amhaouch
Sidi Ali bou Rekbar
Sidi Ammar hills
Sidi bel Abbès
Sidi Belkassem
Sidi bou Othman
Sidi Driss
Sidi el Mekki
Sidi Lamine
Sidi Mhand n’Ifrutant
Sidi Raho
Siegel, Pte
Sieger, Pte
signalling lamp (‘optical telegraph’) system
Sijilmasa
Si Kaddour ben Hamza
Silberman, Pte Léon
Silva, Don Luis
Silvestre, Gen Manuel (Span)
Si Mohammed el Hajjami
Simon, Col Henri
Si Muhammad Ragragi
Singapore
Si Sliman
Sker
Skertchly, J.A.
Skoura
slave trading: African, Ch 5 n(39); Arab; Atlantic; Chinese
Slavko, Tpr
Snada
Soissons
Solard, Lt
Sontag, Sgt
Son Tay
Souk Ahras
Souk de Ait Bazza
Souk el Djelma
Souk el Tleta (d’Aslef)
Souk es Sebt d’Ain Amar – see Es Sebt
Sous plain, Morocco
Sousse, Tunisia
Spain; military coup (1923)Fr relations with
Spanish Army in Morocco. Spanish operations: (1912 – 13); (1914 – 18); (1919 – 20); Anual/Mte Aruit disaster (1921); (1922 – 23); withdrawal to Primo Line (1924), ; Alhucemas Bay landings (1925). Spanish Foreign Legion – see Tercio; Spanish native troops – see Regulares
Spanish Morocco; description of presidios – see also Ceuta, and Melilla
Spanish Sahara (Rio del Oro)
Spierckel, Pte
Spillmann, Capt
Srima
Stamm, Pte
Stanley, Col (Brit)
Steeg, Res-Gen Théodore, Stephani, Maj
Streibler, Pte
Strohmayer, SgtMaj
Suberbieville
‘Sud-Oranais’ (southern Oran Dept)
Suez Canal
Susbielle, Capt Roger de
Susini, Maj
Sweeny, Col Charles (US) Ch 18 n(29)
Szencovics, WO
T
Tabelbala
Tache de Taza (Taza Pocket); (1923 operations) incl
tactics, Annamese troops
tactics, Arab
tactics, Berber
tactics, Chinese troops passim
tactics, Chinese/Vietnamese ‘pirates’
tactics, Dahomeyan
tactics, French (pre-1918)
tactics, Fr (post-1918)
Taddoute plateau
Tadirhoust
Tafaroua
Taferdoust
Tafert forest
Tafilalt, the (region) ; Fr occupation of (1931 – 32)
Tafofo
Taforalt pass
Tafrant
Tafrata plain
Taghit; attack on (1903)
Taghjicht
Taghla pass
Taghzat people
Tahaddert
Tahon, Col
Tailharde, Capt
Taillendier, Georges
Taiping Rebellion
Taleghza
Talpomba, Lt
Tamanrasset
Tamasint
Tamatave
Tamjout
Tamlelt plain
Tamtetoucht
Tanala people
Tang Ching-sung
Tangier
tanks, Renault FT-17
Tann, Gen von der
Taounate
Taourirt
Tarda
Targuist
Tarrit, LtCol
Tarzeft pass
Taupin, Col
Tavernot, Capt
Taza
‘Taza block/gap’
Taza corridor
Taza Pocket – see Tache de Taza
Tazouta
Tazrut
Tazuguerte pass
Telouet
Teniet el Hajj
Tercio (Span Foreign Legion); 6° Bandera
Teroual
Terrasson, Cpl
Terrillon, LtCol
Tetuan
Thai Binh river
Thai Ho Ha
Thai Nguyen
Thanh Moi
That Khe
Théraube, Maj
Thévent, Sgt
Théveny, Gen Jean
Thiébault, Capt
Thiers, Pres Adolphe
Thirier, QM Cpl
Tho people
Thomas, Gen
Thouvenel, Col Pierre
Thuong Lam
Thuong river
Tiaret
Tichoukt massif
Tidikelt, the
Tientsin
Tighmart (in Tafilalt)
Tighmert (in Djebel Bani)
Tilmirate
Timahdite
Timbuktu
Timimoun
Timm, Capt
Timoulilt
Timsaman people
Tinan, LtCol de
Tindouf
Tinerhir
Tinrheras
Tissa (Souk el Arba de)
Tisserand, QM Sgt
Tissier, SgtMaj
Tiittaouine gorge
Tizimi
Tizi Adni pass
Tizi Azza pass
Tizi ou Hanzi pass
Tizi n’Ouidel pass
Tizi Ouzli pass
Tizi n’Test pass
Tizi n’Tichka pass
Tiznit
Tlemcen
Toffa, Chief
Togo
Tohoué ford
Tonkin (N.Vietnam) incl;incl; Legion drafts to. Military Territories, 1st; 2nd; 3rd
Tonkin Expeditionary Corps (CET), strength
Tonot, SgtMaj
Ton That Thuyet, Regent
Touahar pass
Touat, the (region)
Toulon
Touroug
Tours
Toutée, Gen
Tramuset, Capt
Traversay, Capt de
Trifa plain
Trinquet, Col
Trochu, Gen
Trong Son
Tsarasaotra
Tscharner, Col Albrecht de; biog note
Tsen Yu-ying
Tsinainondry
Tsouls people
‘Tsouls Mountain’
Tuareg people
Tu Duc, King
Tuileries palace, Paris
Tuléar
Tunisia
Tuyen Quang; siege (1885);
Tzu Hsi, Dowager Empress
U
u-Bani, Muhammad
u-Ba Slam, Assu
u-Ba Slam, Bassu
Ueber, Pte, Ch 10 n(39)
u-Marir
u-Mhad, Zayd
United Nations
United States
u-Skunti
V
Vallière, Col
Vandenberg, LtCol
Van den Borght, Sgt
Van den Vaéro, Lt
Vandevalle, Pte
Van Linh
Vary, Lt
Vauchez, Capt
Vecchioni, Lt
vehicles, motor, in Fr and Legion useBerliet CBA truck; Berliet VUDB armoured recce carrier, Fig; Laffly 50AM armoured car; Laffly LC2 patrol truck; Panhard/175 TOE armoured car Panhard armoured carrierM1918 White armoured car
Velly, Maj
Vernois, Gen
Versailles
Veseron, Lt
Vial, Dr Jean
‘Viet Bac’, the (region)
Vietorovsky, Cpl
Viet Tri
Vigny, Gen
Vilain, S/Lt Jean
Villebois-Mareuil, Col Comte de
Villiers Moramé, Capt
Vimy Ridge
Vincens, Dr
Vinh Thuy
Vinoy, Gen
Virey, Lt
Vitalis, Maj
Vogüé, Eugène Comte de
Vohémar
Volokhoff, Capt Marc
Voyron, Gen
Vurusic, Pte
W
Wable, Lt
Waddell, LtCol James
Waldeck Rousseau, Pierre
Walz, Pte
Ward Price, George
Watrin, Capt
weapons, French: tabatière (‘snuffbox’) rifle conversion,M1866 Chassepot rifleGras rifle Lebel riflecarbine,hand grenades,VB rifle grenadesReffye mitrailleuse Hotchkiss, M1905 Puteaux & M1907 St Étienne machine guns,; M1915 CSRG (‘Chauchat’) LMGM1924 LMG mortarsM1877 80mm mountain gunHotchkiss field and QF guns; M1897 75mm field gunM1906 65mm mountain gun
weapons, non-French: Albini rifles, Ch 5 n(45); Martini-Henry rifles; Mauser riflesPeabody carbines,Remington riflesSnider riflesSpencer carbinesWinchester rifles & carbines Gardner machine guns; Madsen LMGs, Ch 18 n(75); Nordenfeldt MGs, 104; Krupp field guns
Weber, Lt
Weber, Sgt
Weinbrenner, Lt
Weinrock, Pte
Weisse, Pte
Werner, WO
Weynaud, Maj
Wilhelm, Pte
Wilhelm I, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Wimpffen, Gen
Winckelmeyer, LtCol
wireless communications
Wren, P.C.
Y
Yellow Flags
Yen Phu
Yen The, the (region)
Yoruba people
Yunnan province
Yunnan troops passim
Z
Zaian tribal confederation
Zafrani
Zagora
Zelouan
Zenaga
Ziegler, Pte Charles
Zimmermann, Pte
Zimmur tribe
Zitouna
Zola, Émile
Zoli, Cpl
Zoubia – see Duveyrier
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