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French Foreign Legion The French Foreign Legion (french: Légion étrangère) is a corps of the French Army which comprises several specialties: infantry, Armoured Cavalry Arm, cavalry, Military engineering, engineers, Airborne forces, airborne troops. It was created ...

, a unit of the French Army Foreign Legion may also refer to:

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Brigade of Gurkhas The Brigade of Gurkhas is the collective name which refers to all the units in the British Army that are composed of Nepalese Gurkha soldiers. The brigade draws its heritage from Gurkha units that originally served in the British Indian Army ...

, light infantry unit of the British Army *

Foreign volunteers The armed forces of many nations have, at one time or another, used foreign volunteers who are motivated by political, ideological or other considerations to join a foreign army. These may be formed into units of a given nationality or may be fo ...

, a term for troops joining a foreign army *

International Brigades The International Brigades ( es, Brigadas Internacionales) were military units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The organization existed f ...

, of the Spanish Civil War *

International Legion The International Legion was created in Italy by Giuseppe Garibaldi, on October 5, 1860 – in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Volturnus, where the forces of the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were decisively broken. It had been th ...

, created in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi *

International Freedom Battalion The International Freedom Battalion ( tr, Enternasyonalist Özgürlük Taburu; ku, Tabûra Azadî ya Înternasyonal; ar, تابور الحرية العالمي), commonly abbreviated as IFB or EÖT, is a revolutionary socialist armed group con ...

, a leftist foreign fighters fighting for the Rojava forces during the Syrian Civil War *

International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine The International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, uk, Інтернаціональний легіон територіальної оборони України, Internatsionalnyi lehion terytorialnoi oborony Ukrainy or the Ukrainian Fo ...

, a Ukrainian brigade created during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine *

King's German Legion The King's German Legion (KGL; german: Des Königs Deutsche Legion, semantically erroneous obsolete German variations are , , ) was a British Army unit of mostly expatriated German personnel during the period 1803–16. The legion achieved th ...

(KGL), a British Army unit of expatriate Germans during the Napoleonic Wars *

Mahal (Israel) Mahal, more often spelled Machal ( he, מח"ל), refers to the group of overseas volunteers who fought alongside Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Some 4,000 volunteers, mostly Jews but also non-Jews, arrived from all over the w ...

, foreigners serving in the Israeli army *

Polish Legions (Napoleonic period) The Polish Legions ( pl, Legiony Polskie we Włoszech; also known as the Dąbrowski Legions) in the Napoleon I of France, Napoleonic period, were several Polish military units that served with the Grande Armée, French Army, mainly from 1797 ...

, Polish military units that served with the French Army, 1790s–1810s *

Portuguese Legion (Napoleonic Wars) The Portuguese Legion ( French: ''Légion portugaise''; Portuguese: ''Legião Portuguesa'') was a 9,000 men strong Portuguese military unit integrated in the army of the First French Empire, formed after the French occupation of Portugal in 180 ...

, a Portuguese military force in Napoleon's Imperial Armies *

Rhodesian Light Infantry The 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI), commonly The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks (Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia) as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia ...

, informally known as Rhodesian Foreign Legion (1961–1980) *

Royal Dutch East Indies Army The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ( nl, Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL, ) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The ...

(KNIL), informally known as Dutch Foreign Legion (1830–1950) *

Royal Sicilian Regiment The Sicilian Regiment (also known as The Royal Sicilian Regiment of Foot) was a light infantry regiment recruited from Sicily that served with the British Army during the Napoleonic wars, from 1806 to its disbandment in 1816. The Detachment of Ro ...

(1806-1816) *

Russian–German Legion The Russian–German Legion was a military unit set up in 1812 by the banished Graf Peter of Oldenburg on the instigation of Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Formation Its first commander was Oberst von Arentsschild, and it was formed from non-F ...

, a Russian Army unit of expatriate German personnel during the Napoleonic Wars *

Spanish Legion For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the Foreign Regiments () - such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal ...

, a quasi-independent unit of the Spanish Army *

Värvat främlingsregemente Värvat Främlingsregemente (Enlisted Foreigner Regiment), was a Swedish Army infantry regiment organised in Poland in the early 18th century. History The regiment was organised in Poland in 1706 during the Great Northern War, and it was made ...

, Recruited Foreigners Regiment, Swedish regiment of Polish deserters *

YPG International The YPG International or People's Protection Units International (Kurdish: ''YPG Enternasyonel'') is a military unit made up of foreign fighters in the Syrian Democratic Forces. It was created in December 2016 as the Antifascist International Tabû ...

, foreign legion branches of the People's Protection Units (YPG).

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The Foreign Legion ''The Foreign Legion'' is a 1928 American silent adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Mary Nolan. The film is based on the 1913 novel '' The Red Mirage'' by I.A.R. Wylie. It was one of several ...

'', a 1928 silent film *

Foreign Legion (band) Foreign Legion is a punk band from South Wales. History 1984–1991 Foreign Legion formed in 1984 from the ashes of a band called Society, later Dead On Arrival. Dead on Arrival had one song on 1984's ''Bullsheep Detector'' album. Follow ...

, a punk band from Wales * ''Foreign Legion'' (album), a 2002 album by Murfreesboro * ''Foreign Legion'' (Tin Hat album), a 2010 album by

Tin Hat Tin Hat (formerly the Tin Hat Trio) is an acoustic chamber music group currently based in San Francisco, California. Their music combines many genres of music, including jazz, southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical, eastern European folk music ...

Foreign Legion (wrestling) Foreign Legion most often refers to: * French Foreign Legion, a unit of the French Army Foreign Legion may also refer to: Military * Brigade of Gurkhas, light infantry unit of the British Army * Foreign volunteers, a term for troops joining a f ...

(La Legión Extranjera), a loosely affiliated group in Mexican wrestling *''Foreign Legions'', a 2001 anthology edited by

David Drake David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi ...

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