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    A Soldier of the Legion
    A Soldier of the Legion
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    A Soldier of the Legion

    By Edward Morlae

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    The book "A Soldier of the Legion" focuses on soldier within the Legion of the United States of America army. The author, Edward Morlae, also a sergeant in the legion discusses some of the experiences and encounter as a member of the foreign legion and some fActual insights into things that happened during the time of war. He shares historical information about the war breakout in the early twentieth century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066184797
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      A Soldier of the Legion - Edward Morlae

      Edward Morlae

      A Soldier of the Legion

      Published by Good Press, 2021

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066184797

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      When Sergeant Morlae turned up at the Atlantic office and, with his head cocked on one side, remarked ingratiatingly, I'm told this is the highest-toned office in the United States, there was nothing to do but to assure him he was right and to make him quite comfortable while he told his wonderful story. That story, however, was not told consecutively, but in chapters as his crowding recollections responded to the questions of his interlocutor. It was a story, too, which could not be told at a sitting, and it was not until the evening of the second day that Sergeant Morlae recounted the exploit which won the Croix de Guerre pinned to his chest—a cross which he said, with the sole touch of personal pride noticed in three days passed largely in his company, had above it not the copper but the silver clasp.

      Sergeant Morlae is a Dirk Hatteraick of a man to look at, and the education of that beloved pirate was no more rugged than his own. His father was a Frenchman born who had seen service in '70 and won a captain's commission in the Terrible Year. After the war, Morlae, senior, settled in this country and his son was born in California. As young Morlae grew up, finding the family business of contracting on a small scale somewhat circumscribed, he sought more hazardous employment in active service in the Philippines and in more than one civilian scrap in Mexico. It was good training. August, 1914, found him again in Los Angeles. For two days his French blood mounted as he read the newspapers, and on the morning of August 3 he packed his grip and started for Paris to enlist in the Legion. Since he had already seen service, he was soon made a corporal and later a sergeant. Morlae, says a letter from a Harvard graduate who served under him in those days, was an excellent soldier, a strong, efficient, ambitious man, though, as the reader of this and letters from other Legionaries may infer, he was neither sentimental in his methods nor supersensitive with his men. Maintaining discipline in so motley a crew as the Legion is rather a rasping process, and Sergeant Morlae was born disqualified for diplomatic service. Future reunions of La Légion are likely to lack the sweet placidity which wraps the Grand Army of the Republic on the anniversaries of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

      But to the story. The things that war is are not often told except in generalization or in words of fanciful rhetoric. It would be hard to find elsewhere, crammed into a brief narrative, so much of the sense of actuality—that realism made perfect which even readers who have known no such experience feel instinctively is true. Yet the story is not made of horror. The essence of its life is the spirit that delights in peril. The Soldier of the Legion has in it that spinal thrill which has electrified great tales of battle since blood was first let and ink spilled to celebrate it.

      Ellery Sedgwick.

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      A SOLDIER OF THE LEGION

      I

      Table of Contents

      One day during the latter part of August, 1915, my regiment, the 2me Étranger (Foreign Legion), passed in review before the President of the French Republic and the commander-in-chief of her armies, General Joffre. On that day, after twelve months of fighting, the regiment was presented by President Poincaré with a battle-flag. The occasion marked the admission of the Légion Étrangère to equal footing with the regiments of the line. Two months later—it was October 28—the remnants of this regiment were paraded through the streets of Paris, and, with all military honors, this same battle-flag was taken across the Seine to the Hôtel des Invalides. There it was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor, and, with reverent ceremony, was placed between the flag of the cuirassiers who died at Reichshofen and the equally famous standard which the Garibaldians bore in 1870-71. The flag lives on. The regiment has ceased to exist.

      On the battlefield of La Champagne, from Souain to the Ferme Navarin, from Somme Py to the Butte de Souain, the ground is thickly studded with low wooden crosses and plain pine boards marked with the Mohammedan crescent and star. Beside the crosses you see bayonets thrust into the ground, and dangling from their cross-bars little metal disks which months ago served their purpose in identifying the dead and now mark their graves. Many mounds bear no mark at

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