Brutal Firsthand Account of the French Foreign Legion's Assault On An Algerian City (1837)
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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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Voices of the Foreign Legion : The History of the World's Most Famous Fighting Corps
By: Adrian D Gilbert
The Mexicans once quoted about the French Foreign Legion at the Battle of Camarón; "These were not men, they're demons!"
Still are
@@appleslover
And always will be; someone’s gotta have enough balls to protect the sovereignty of their nation, irrespective of what specters from the past certain ideologues would rather perpetuate than keep in the past.
@@sergpie advanced weaponry≠ balls
Today, my 10 year old brother could easily kill the best gladiator Rome had 2000 years ago with a single shot
@@appleslover there wasn't that much big of a gap technologically speaking between the french and the mexicans.
The mexican army simply sucked.
That's why the legion uniform is the same as the mexican flag
"What was left of the town surrendered unconditionally."
Constantine: First Roman Christian emperor
Constantinople: the city that you keep calling Constantine
@@christobalcolon6601 Constantine is a city in eastern Algeria built by the Phoenicians and later Numidians. It was renamed in honor of Constantine the Great when part of the Roman Empire.
Charging at an armed barricade with a sword and being the first over the barricade. Takes cojones!
don´t use man words when refering to pvssies.
And face planted right in front of the enemy.
@@kratosthegodofwar2593 They were laughing so hard at his antics that their shots missed.
well someone has to do it lol
Regards
Well, it was a viable tactic. At the time, rifles used by militaries were all muzzle-loaded. It takes a well-trained soldier to fire off just three barely-aimed shots in a minute with these.
So you would have had far better chances to storm a barricade some 50 feet away at maximum, while most if not all of the defenders were reloading.
Dude, the French foreign legion sounds like an insanely brave band of front line soldiers. I wouldn’t want to face the guys charging a barricade with little more than bayonets while being shot at. They’re clearly some bold fellows.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
True that.
Dude...
He was probably a charismatic leader, probably close to his men in everyday activities during the campaigns. Soldiers dont follow any man into hell like that.
What an asinine comment, why? What the hell makes you think this?
@@SwitchTF2 what a boomer comment. Why? What the hell makes you comment this?
@@MrJohansen go back to your dead end job, this is a year old thread nobody cares
Great job man. The true History Channel.
You can see where the philosophy of elan, with which the French army entered the first battles of WW 1 came from.
Respected, feared and brave.
I would not want to mess with them
Great video as usual!
Didn’t know much about these guys.
Love your channel, keep em coming. We gotta get you to a million subs, great work!
Excellent Work!!
I liked your videos so much your channel is my favourite in RUclips your videos are so much knowledgeful and educative your channel is a inspiration for other history RUclips channels I get various
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Great video did you have to add the ringing of the tinnitus, head hurt just hearing it
And to consider they were just foreign street riff raff that the French wanted to be rid of - two birds with one stone....
In war, a international service soldier goes to intense care to recieve aid. A national soldier to rest, and a legionnaire to die.
I do hope their Spanish counterparts will also be covered, the Spanish Legion.
Didn’t do that much. Stopped accepting foreigners in 1972.
I’ve spoken to men who served in both the Spanish and French foreign legions and even back when they served in the Spanish legions wasn’t anything to write home about mostly just sat around drinking sangria lmao
@@wordherb1128 unfortunately I don’t think they were even created till the 1920’s when colonialism was already in decline.
@@theuglyfriend when I said back then I was talking about the 1970s sorry should have made that clear
However, they do have the gayest uniforms and ceremonial drill on earth. That's not nothing.
That's some crazy shit! Great job too, you deserve more views.
As an ex Cpl of the 2eme REI, joined when I was 18 in Marseille back in 1981. Served in Beirut during the Israel invasion 82 employed by the Lebanese government in part as peace keeping and to fight against PLO. But there ws just too many different factions involved then with islamists and private war loads, Syrian troops. A real eye opener for a skinny English lad, but it was a brilliant experience as travelled to French Guyana and other parts of Africa. Viva la Legion Etrangere. Thanks for the vid enjoyed, theres also a Spanish Legion sold by the French to Spain.
I'm sure you must know Thomas Gast.
@@viking670 I knew many Germans but never met him.
Carving Turks out with his sword, Brutal.
Ah. Those were the times!
That is why we Greeks LOVE France!
Epic
Those werent' Turks but Algerians.
@@baphomet418 Is she a Pied-noir? If so she isn't Algerian.
Nice video n story.
Think what kind of nightmare could be fighting in close combat in such tight spaces.... with muzzle loaders and only a bayonet!
Very interested in this piece of history. I am ived in The Constantine area also Biskra in the south. I worked there for 2 years building army camps and barracks. We got to know hear a lot about the French occupation, and the rebel tactics. Saw demolished churches, and they still had old French out posts, and found names and dates carved on stone at the El Kantara pass. From the late 1800s. A long and bloody history.
Never hear anyone end more lines with question marks more than Chills. You got it? Historically? Yeah? I love your channel?
Awesome account from history
Great history, le Legion!
That was a hell of a letter
Yes. I was just talking about them. True mad lads.
How amazing that I got this video recommended when I'm getting in shape to join the Legion... thanks for the video btw
very cool
This account is also in a great book about the legion called Voices of the foreign legion by Adrien D Gilbert
That was my source. Great book.
This battle was also in The Damned Die Hard, but not this particular account.
I found this video by recommendations, and this video is now SEVEN HOURS AGO
WTH, a video made only hours ago and I was recommended it!
*W H A T*
What a fucking mad man the captain was.
I wonder if during his time, the legion's legendary espirit de corps was already formed, or was it still in its infancy?
Most came later but the brotherhood's from day 1
My cousin was in french legion. He got some crazy stories from middle east.
I think we need a few instant replays.
You should have said Berber Kabyle tribes, now many think the Kabyle people are Arabs
Got their arses kicked in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam.
Just like the Americans did in Vietnam.
The British ran at Dunkirk and surrendered at Singapore to a much lesser Japanese force and surrendered at Hong Kong.
👍👍
Here because FPSRussia mentioned the channel 😎
The legion are legends
There is no honour or "legendariness" in invading a pillaging other countries and people
@@appleslover
Yeah, you’re wrong; Julius Caesar attainted legendary status precisely because of that. History cares little of the warm and fuzzies things like “Imagine” by Lennon tend to elicit.
@@sergpie which is a sign of our barbarity, nothing to be proud of.
Others doing it≠ right
Plurality≠morality
Only weaklings say that.
@@sergpie Damn straight.
Watch “ Beau Guest “ for look at the Legion ?
They should have taken heed when the Legion got out of Vietnam....
So how did the Foreign Legion treat the town after the surrender, and what became of the enemy who surrendered?
raped and killed
dont worry, im sure the battle-scarred & mourning Legionaries treated the jihadis like good serfs after they submitted
Do steppe nomads they have such vast culture.
They certainly don't make em like they used to thats for damn sure!
I believe it was Marshels Soult's idea. The then Minster of war to Louis Philipe. Yes that marshel Soult who served Napoleon.
Ya, musket to the face would be a pain in the ass.
They Don’t like it up em !
How reliable is one source and at that a French European, imperialist, colonialist, mercenary. Pretty skeptical. Look at it like this in the court of law of this day and age he has a very weak case if a case at all. DA reject all day everyday.
Viva la légion fréres
If there was a blender big enough to throw piles of people into it, this would be it.
Ah, the French Legion if Napoleon had them at Waterloo could they have made a difference?.
No, the human resources were far too eroded to carry past even a success at Waterloo.
Napoleon had many foreigners serving in the ranks he had poles germans as we had he had italians spanish dutch flemish etc
That’s where the Legion originally came from was left over foreigners from Napoleons Grand Armee.
@Peter Mercado I go by where Louis Philippe lived in exile here in Boston pretty frequently.
@Peter Mercado lol, he was king of France and signed the declaration to create the Legion. Google it get back to me 😉
Treu devils from day 1to the end
The Legion is the best way to earn French citizenship, assuming they would want you. It's no small feat to join the Legion today!
They will also teach you French from scratch, boot camp style! 😣
Getting in is very hard I tried 4 times I my lifetime. I think it’s 1-25 that are accepted now.
@@theuglyfriend I feel for you! ❤️
I had a plan years ago, which was to master French, and use ROTC to serve in the US Army and use that as leverage... but then I started working as a game dev... and one-hundred 'percenting' French is HARD!
@@Psychol-Snooper the absolute truth is you never know who they’re going to accept. The last time I went the SGT. at the gate just didn’t like the way I looked and turned me away. It happens a lot.
@@theuglyfriend How far have you gotten? Did you get past the psych and IQ testing?
@@Psychol-Snooper it’s not as straight forward as you think. You could pass everything and still get rejected. I could fail this or that and still get in. You could be Russian Petznas with certificates and phones numbers with you and yes still get rejected. They also don’t do though ought background-checks like they say they do. Google “ US Army deserter/ French foreign legion. The day of a few days after graduation West Point he joined the Legion. This was recently.
A muslim city in AFRICA named after emperor Constantine ??
it was part of the roman empire back then.
@@itsMe_TheHerpes interesting..
Constantinople itself is Muslim nowadays
Anyway Constantine was named by it people after the emperor defeated his rival who sacked the city and was hated by them
One year later. Your emphasis still doesn't fit the flow of the sentence. The way you speak makes it difficult to follow you. Semicolons matter.
Thurgau
Foreign legion were slaughtered later till the last man during the Algerian war 1954-1962
Never happened hadji, only in your wet dreams.
@@sarrumac all they got was blood and dust and graves without names in Algeria lol Vietnam and Algeria were graveyard for french soldiers
They just retreated. They didn’t go quietly google “Algiers putsch of 1961”
@@sarrumac Keep coping François, more than 30,000 French soldiers were slaughtered in Algeria and up to 20,500 in Vietnam, all they got was blood and shame.
The Battle of the city of Algiers was won by the French. The Algerian War was lost by DeGaulle.
Robotic voice. Gave up after 2 mins
Damn Yanks just leave the Legion alone! BORING
Advice: Don't do that explosion effects thing again. Its unnecessary and anoying.
It scared & surprised me, but I liked it.
Yea lol I wanted it to be a shock to the viewer...kind of like you experienced the explosion.
@@HistoryUncovered I liked the sound of the explosion and gunshots, and other sound effects. Added to the video.
I thought it was a good touch
you right Simple Pixel, i have left side Hearing loss from time to time and extrem Tinitus and such a high tone effect activate this shit again.
I found it not funny.
Interesting subject, but a very annoying accent.