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Beau
Sauveur
The
Further Adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais and the Red Shadow.
De Beaujolais
is faced with his most important mission to date. This time it is not gloire
française that is to be served but the passions of his heart and
the honor of his family name.
Madeleine
Van den Burg, the beautiful American heiress, and stealer of de Beaujolais'
heart is captive of the vile Emir Muwlai Ali ben Mustafa Safana el Azag
and de Beaujolais is to blame.
Only eight
weeks before, de Beaujolais had been dining with Madeleine and her Uncle,
the governor of Agazid in the Soudan. Madeleine had been seeking adventure
and was enjoying the strange new world she was experiencing at her French
uncle’s expense and was soon set to travel to Senegal for her return home. |
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General had summoned de Beaujolais, as part of his attachment to the Secret
Service. He was to prepare for a mission to cross the Soudan east through
Niger into Chad, Borkou territory. There was news of a prominent Muslim
warlord, Krazam al Khuti, who had been approached by a Turkish emissary
to rise up and lead his people in a Jihad against the Roumi. |
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the eve of his departure, dressed as a Bedouin with his camels laden and
ready, the several days of unrest that had been brewing in Agazid erupted
in a mass riot, with tribes from the neighboring regions descending on
Agazid. Fearing for his niece's well being, the Governor begs de Beaujolais
to take her to safety.
As the garrison
Tirailleur Company is massacred to the last, de Beaujolais steels out of
Agazid with Madeleine.
After two
weeks of eastward travel, and a few tussles with wandering Tuaregs, de
Beaujolais fears that he is taking Madeleine out of the frying pan into
the fire.
When he
meets a caravan traveling north to Algeria in the company of two Europeans
from the Geographical Society, he implores them to take Madeleine north
through Algeria to the nearest French post, Fort Péter, which they
will be passing. |
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The Tirailleur
Company fights to the last man in defence of Agazid as de Beaujolais escapes
into the desert on his perilous mission.
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He gives
her instructions to ask for protection from his good friend the Red Shadow
whom he will seek out when his mission is complete.
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De Beaujolais,
diguised as a Bedouine delivers Lady Madeleine to the safety of a caravan
headingt north to Algeria
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As
he travels along without her, de Beaujolais gradually realizes that he
has become besotted with her and the heavy burden of her absence hangs
from his heart. His mission to court Krazam al Khuti goes well. De Beaujolais
discovers that their intelligence was faulty and that Krazam has received
no Turkish emissaries and is willing to accept the French expansion into
his region and develop trade with them.
De Beaujolais
immediately sets out for Fort Péter and after a grueling 3-week
trek he arrives there exhausted. He finds his friend The Red Shadow from
whom he learns with horror the fate that has befallen Madeleine.
One month
ago, a few survivors of a caravan arrived at the fort. They told a story
of being attacked for 4 days by an unknown tribe, who looked like Tuaregs
but some of whom wore a strange European style uniform. They fought them
off for a while south |
of the Ahaggar
Mountains but eventually they were overrun. The European cartographers
were murdered and mutilated and a white woman that was traveling with them
was carried off into the mountains. |
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Red shadow has traveled to the region and spied with his four most trusted
Goums. They found that Madeleine is reported to be the latest prize in
the harem of Emir Muwlai Ali ben Mustafa Safana el Azag.
His palace
is a walled mountain fortress, itself within the walls of a great Ksar,
surrounded by a hidden oasis of 500,000 trees. Men whose appearance is
that of Tuaregs but who wear red uniforms and drill like Europeans guard
the fortress.
The Red
Shadow has gone in disguise amongst the Ksar and learned of the Roumi woman
whom the Emir has in a great cage in the Palace. |
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The
Palace Fortesse of Emir Muwlai Ali ben Mustafa Safana el Azag
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Lady Madelein
is taken into captivity by the guards of the Emir
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De
Beaujolais tells the Shadow of his last mission into Chad and wonders if
this was the tribe that was the subject of Turkish emissaries.
A rescue
mission is put into plan.
Fortunately
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Beaujolais,
the Fort is commanded by his friend Captain Pepe Le Ponse of the Legion
Etrangere, a hopeless romantic and academy friend of De Beaujolais with
whom he served in the Hussars. |
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The
rescue mission, under the joint command of de Beaujolais and
Le
Ponse sets forth on its missin sauveur.
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Ponse has troops to spare at the fort and agrees to assemble a rescue mission. |
The force
comprises a full company of three platoons of Legion Etrangere. An artillery
support section of one rapid fire gun. A machine gun section.
There is
even a section of Leger Sappers that have just delivered a large quantity
of explosives that Le Pose thinks will make a useful adition. He adds a
platoon of tirailleurs and leaves the remaider of his Tirailleurs to garrison
the Fort.
De Beaujolais
is given personal |
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The helpless
Lady Madeleien awaits a miracle.
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of a troop of Chausseurs, all that remain at the fort. Several of these
men have served with de Beaujolais before and are in great spirits to be
with him again.
Two troops
of the Red Shadow's Goumiers complete the task force.
De Beaujolais
has vowed to return with Madeleine or not return at all. |
WE APOLOGISE
- DUE TO A HARD DRIVE FAILURE, THE PHOTOS FOR THIS GAME WERE LOST. WE WILL
REPLACE THEM BY RE-ENACTMENT THIS SUMMER -
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