The French troops performed no id's play in defending Casablanca against the repeated attacks made on their position outside the city. One of the Moorish horsemen's devices was to charge for a short distance at full gallop, dragging " large bundle of sticks along the ground. The sticks raised a dense cloud of dust, under cover of which it was easy for the men on foot to advance and fire on the French. The fire in fact was so hot that General Drude's tent was riddled with bullets and he ordered the flag flying over it to be hauled down. A French comic opera singer from Bor-deux, M. Mercié, greatly distinguished himself in the defence of the French Consulate. Before the first French detachment landed there were only about a dozen Europeans in the Consulate, armed with rifles, carbines
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