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marabout, from which they repulsed all assaults. After a siege lasting many days, without food or water and short of munitions, they were reduced to cutting up their musket balls in order to keep firing. Emir Abdelkader captured captain adjutant major Dutertre and taken under guard to the front of the marabout to demand the chasseurs' surrender, but instead used his time there to exhort the survivors to fight to the death, for which Abdelkader beheaded him. Abdelkader then demanded that the French bugler (Guillaume Rolland) sound the retreat, but he instead sounded the charge, whilst one chasseur replied to another of Abdelkader's other demands for their surrender with the word,
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The encounter was unplanned and poorly commanded by Montagnac, and went badly for the French troops. After a first encounter, the French's numbers were reduced from 450 to 82 chasseurs and hussars against hundreds of Algerians. Cornered, the chasseurs of the carabinier company took refuge in a
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Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, Volume 8 "the person who commanded at the massacre of Sidi-Brahim, where 400 French troops were put to death"
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and the battle being written up among its battle honours. However, according to
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The extreme bravery shown by the battalion led to its being nicknamed the
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Dictionnaire Perrin des guerres et des batailles de l'histoire de France
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from 22 to 25 September 1845. The French force was made up of the
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List of participants in the invasion of Algiers in 1830
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Propaganda poster about the "battalion of Sidi-Brahim."
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