Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Le Hardi ("onye obi ike") bụ ụgbọ mmiri na-eduga nke klas ya nke ndị na-ebibi ("torpilleur d'escadre") wuru maka (French Navy) n'oge ngwụsị afọ 1930. A rụchara ụgbọ mmiri ahụ n'oge Agha France n'etiti afọ 1940 na ọrụ mbụ ya bụ inyere aka na-eduga ụgbọ agha na-ezughị ezu na French Morocco naanị ụbọchị ole na ole tupu Agha France.
Ndị France bịanyere aka n'akwụkwọ nkwekọrịta agha ha na ndị Germany. O nwere obere ọrụ na Agha nke Dakar na Septemba, ọkachasị ịtọ ntọala anwụrụ ọkụ. "Le Hardi" nyere aka na-eduzi otu n'ime ndị agha nke ndị Britain mebiri n'oge mwakpo ha na July na Mers-el-Kébir, French Algeria, laghachi France na November. E wedara ya ala n'etiti afọ 1942.