Well, this changes the game in a few ways. Car and Driver clocked one at 7.8 seconds 0-60, but pulling power, not sheer acceleration, was the name of this game — as in towing trailers and boats. Magazine testers clocked 0-60 in the mid-fives and the quarter-mile in about 14.5 seconds at 95 mph. Where […]
From this handful of men that remained and the reinforcements that he would receive, Lieutenant Colonel Rollet reformed the elite unit. At the end of 1906, a few months before the beginning of the French campaign in Morocco, Lieutenant Rollet left for the Algerian-Moroccan border, assigned as a platoon leader to the 3rd Mounted Company […]
Born on December 20, 1875 in France’s Auxerre, where his father served as a captain in the 46th Infantry Regiment, Paul-Frédéric Rollet also chose a military career and entered the prestigious military academy of Saint-Cyr in October 1894. Promoted to second lieutenant when he graduated two years later, he was assigned to the 91st Infantry […]
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