French Circassian Cavalry assembling outside the railway station at Damascus, French Mandate of Syria in preparation of the surrendering ceremony to Axis officials, Sep 1941

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Caption     French Circassian Cavalry assembling outside the railway station at Damascus, French Mandate of Syria in preparation of the surrendering ceremony to Axis officials, Sep 1941 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Damascus, Syria, French Syria and Lebanon
Date  Sep 1941
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseAustralian War Memorial
Identification Code   009749
 
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Photo Size 450 x 338 pixels



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1. Commenter identity confirmed Alan Chanter says:
14 May 2016 12:09:09 AM

General de Gaulle believed that the Free French participation in the Syrian campaign would lead to an onrush of Vichyites willing to embrace his cause. He was badly mistaken. There were many among the poorly equipped Free French who were opposed to fighting fellow Frenchmen. One exception was Colonel Philibert Collet, commanding a force of fair-skinned Muslim Circassians, who led his men across the frontier into Syria - but of the ten squadrons that rode with him all but three subsequently changed their minds and rode back. It fell to Collet to inform de Gaulle that even Vichyites who had some sympathy with the Free French would resist an invasion on principle.

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