Edited sentence: In the Caucasus, without mentioning the 150,000 Armenians in the Russian Armies, about 50,000 Armenian volunteers under Andranik Nazarbekoff and others, not only fought for four years for the Entente, but after the breakdown of Russia, they were the only forces in the Caucasus to resist the advance of the Turks, whom they held in check until the Armistice was signed...".In the Légion d'Orient they numbered over 5,000 and made up more than half of the French contingent in Syria and Palestine, which took part in General Allenby's decisive victory.On the other hand, the Armenian leader Boghos Nubar, son of an Ottoman Governor, made the following statement, published by The Times, January 1919, after the WWI: "Our volunteers fought in the French Foreign Legion and covered themselves with glory