A Soldier of the Legion / An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and Tonquin

About This Book

In Paris, 1890, an Englishman named George Manington signed up to join the army.He would remain part of the French Foreign Legion for the next five years.After swearing to the cause of liberté, égalité, fraternité Manington was immediately transported away from France to begin his training in Algeria.But Africa was not where he would be fighting, instead he and his comrades, from Germany, Scotland, America and the rest of the world, were sent to south-east Asia.Tonquin in French Indochina was their destination, to help quell the rebels against colonial rule that had emerged after the Sino-Fren...