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"Moroccan" Quotes from Famous Books

... such as Foch had learned to know when he was at Saumur) and Vendeans (the Bretons' south neighbors). Some of these men had been fighting without respite for nine days as they fell back, with the Fourth army, from the Belgian border. With them, since August 22, had been the remarkable Moroccan division under ...

— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin

... baggage trucks ten or a dozen Moroccan soldiers have seated themselves, crosslegged, and draped in their noble burnous, they gently puff smoke into the air, without a movement, without a gesture, without a sound, apparently utterly oblivious to the noisy employes, or the ...

— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard

... wrote to his Government declaring that all serious warfare was finished. In the summer of 1844, the violation of Abderrahman's territory by French troops under Lamoriciere and Bedeau led to some warfare, in which the Moroccan troops were twice defeated. The people of the country were strongly in favor of Abd-el-Kader; and when their Sultan, after a French bombardment of Tangiers and Mogador, made a treaty with France by which the Algerian hero was "placed beyond the pale of the law throughout ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

Words linked to "Moroccan" : Kingdom of Morocco, Marruecos, morocco, Al-Magrib, Moroccan monetary unit, Moroccan dirham, African