Combating Terrorism: Observations on National Strategies Related to Terrorism

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...war, and whoever ought to be held responsible for the catastrophe which both the Governor and the Commandant appeared to anticipate, a start had to be made, and as soon as the new drafts had been disembarked, Raoul found himself provided with plenty of work. His spirits rose--as the spirits of every man who is worth a brass farthing are sure to do--with enforced activity; he began to look forward to the fight which was at hand; he almost forgot that he had come to Africa to die, not to gain victories, and at the end of a week he had won the friendship and esteem of his chief. Sapristi./ Colonel Davillier exclaimed, if all Parisian dandies resemble you, mon gargon, I ask nothing better than to have half-a-dozen of them sent out to me. What I have difficulty in explaining to myself is why a dandy who can afford to amuse himself in Paris should ever have requested to be sent here. Glory?--fame?--al/om donc! How many out of the thirty-eight millions who inhabit France will hear our names, do you think, or say masses for the repose of our souls after our bones have been picked clean by the jackals and the vultures? Well, in his case, there might possibly be one, Raoul thought--domiciled at that moment in the department of the Basses-Pyrenees. Not being ambitious, he wished only to dwell for a short time in the memory of that one, and it did not seem extravagant to hope that, if he was to die, she would divine for whose sake he had laid down his life. CHAPTER XIII. THE TOUAREGS. RAOUL, who had brought no servant to Africa with him, engaged a private of the native tirailleurs to serve him in that capacity. This gigantic negro, Salem by name, was a Mahommedan from the Soudan. He was without...