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Back down the river came the French, tired, covered to their necks in mud, their dead wrapped in mattings, their wounded in slings or limping on canes. They had killed 88 Communists, captured 25. Colonel Lehagre smiled quizzically. Said he: "In another 18 months the war will be over in southern Indo-China. But right now, I think they are gathering again right over here." He pointed to a spot on a map. "And when they do, we will go out after them again and again and again."
*During May'to October, floodwaters, backing up on the delta, cause the last 240 miles of the Mekong to flow backwards into Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia.