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OR , ALGERIA 0ran was seTTled loy The Arabs in The lOTh cenTury, and was capTured, pil- laged, and rebuilT by The various con- querors ThaT Tollowed. ITS ever-changing leadership ruined Orarfs prosperiTy, and Mers-el-Kebir became a piraTe , , sTronghold. Spain conquered lvlers-el- Kelair in l505, and Oran in I509, and massacred a Third oT The populaTion. The inquisiTion was inTroduced, TorTiTicaTions resTored, and Oran loecame a Spanish penal seTTlemenT. ATTer The devasTaTing earlrhguake of I79O. The Arabs again Took conTrol, buT aTTer Algiers had Tallen To The French, The Aralos surrendered Oran, and The French Took Tormal possession in l83l'. LiberTy in Oran wasn'T load, and The horse-Traders, who by now had learned The Tine'arT oT bargaining, picked up quanTiTies of leaTher goods and rugs. Tours were conducTed To Sidi-loel-Alobes, base of The French Foreign Legion. The men were shown selecTed parTs OT The base, including a small museum depicTing cam- paigns in which Legionnaires have ToughT. ATTer seeing The base The men goT a chance To go Through The local casbah, or naTive disTricT. ' The swabby soon learned how To bargain wifh The sTreeT salesman, and ofTen came auf ahead wiih a good deal.
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Bvl- X Seege- SVBE The Casbah Tunis, Tunisia Local ialeni ,. jd T T 1 Moslem women in +he cify Some peirol Joe? ,fm
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ly AA IBY, C SGLI Rl, ARDINIA NoThing bui- barren mounTains We ioin The COLUMBUS aT her anchorage in Cagliari, Sardinia, where she arrived SepTember 29Th, 1950. on a sTricTly business , mission. On The 3OTh, The Commans-in-chief of The French and lTalian Navies, CinClv1ED, ComSixFlT, and Their sTaTis emloarlced, and The nexT day ll OcToloerl we were underway again. We sTopped by ValleTTa early on The morning of The 2nd, long enough To Transfer The Tlag personnel To various desTroyers, where They had grandsTand seaTs Tor The aTTernoon's shore loombardmenT and anTi-aircraTT exercises. We reTurnecl To ValleTTa, and The various Commanders-in-chief meT Tor a criTique of The previous olay's exer- cises. Noon 'Found The COLUMBUS underway again wiTh The TleeTs To observe The French Torpedo exercises. She reTurned laTer ThaT aTTernoon and olisembarlced The various Flag uniTs. CinCNFLlvl reTurned To London The Tol- lowing day. Looks a liTTle like The Rock Halian Iighf cruiser Halian heavy cruiser
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