Sidi-bel-Abbès
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noun
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In a show of impudent strength, they staged a coordinated attack on Sidi-bel-Abbes, the storied home of the Foreign Legion itself.
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Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded.
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Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes.
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Infirmerie de Garnison ler Regiment Etranger Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria Quite a Story Sirs: One day Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent his representative, a Mr. Toca, to Berne in order to solicit recognition by the Swiss Government for his regime.
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In thick khaki uniforms and broad blue sashes, 508 men of the French Foreign Legion marched in full equipment to the railway yards at Sidi-bel-Abbes, Legion headquarters in Algeria, and entrained for French Morocco.
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