Foreign legion

Foreign legion

Foreign Legion is a title which has been used by a small number of units of foreign volunteers. It can refer to:

In military

*Foreign volunteers, a general term for troops joining a foreign army
*French Foreign Legion, elite unit within the French Army established in 1831
*Spanish Foreign Legion, an elite unit of the Spanish Army originally intended as an equivalent to the French Foreign Legion; stopped recruiting foreigners in 1987

The title Foreign Legion has been applied commonly but "unofficially" to:
* Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), informally known as "Dutch Foreign Legion" (1830–1950; stopped recruiting foreigners after the Aceh War ended in 1904)
* Rhodesian Light Infantry, informally known as "Rhodesian Foreign Legion" (1961–1980; only accepted white recruits)
*International Legion, created in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi

In culture

*Foreign Legion (band), a punk band from South Wales
*Foreign Legion (hip hop crew), a hip hop crew from Oakland, California
*Foreign Legion (wrestling), a loosely affiliated group in Mexican wrestling
*"Tarzan and the Foreign Legion", 22nd book in the Tarzan series


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