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sous un feu d'enfer, under a hellish storm of bullets

Page 49. — i. La Légion Étrangère, a French brigade composed of foreign volunteers. A great many Americans enlisted in the Legion during the war.

2. l'attaque de Champagne: see page 41, note 3. ' Page 50. — I. Souain, Navarin, two important positions stormed by the Legion during the Champagne offensive of September, 1915.

2. La Fayette, Rochambeau; Marie- Joseph, marquis de La Fayette (i 750-1834), Jean-Baptiste-Donatien, comte de Rochambeau, Marshal of France (i 750-1807), two well-known generals who led the French contingents to America during the War of Independence.

3. la Chanson de Roland, a French epic of the eleventh century.

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