* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* Camarón Day ( French Foreign Legion )

Abbadie was a knight of the Legion of Honour and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

The French forces included Spahis, Chasseurs d ' Afrique, Foreign Legion cavalry and mounted Goumiers.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

There are some 2, 600 French troops, which includes a unit of the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, stationed in Djibouti.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.

The French Foreign Legion (, L. E.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

The direct reason was that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, so the Foreign Legion was created to allow the government a way around this restriction.

The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d ' Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

" Modern French orders of knighthood include women, for example the Légion d ' Honneur ( Legion of Honor ) since the mid-19th c., but they are usually called chevaliers.

The degrees and the design of the decoration were clearly influenced by the French Legion of Honor ( Légion d ' honneur ).

On 11 November, a French Army Honor Guard held a brief ceremony for Arafat, with his coffin draped in a Palestinian flag.

He received the French Legion of Honor medal for his work.

By 1925, Tsuguharu Foujita had received the Belgian Order of Leopold and the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor.

He also received the Order of Vasa by the government of Sweden, and the Cross of Commander, French Legion of Honor, by the French government.

For his service, General William " Wild Bill " Donovan personally awarded him the Legion of Merit and the French gave him the Legion of Honor and a second Croix de Guerre.

He was named by the French government as an Officer of the Legion of Honor.

In 2012 95-years old Arsene Tchakarian, the last survivor of the Manouchian resistance group, who fought against occupying Nazi German forces during World War II, was awarded with the medal of Officer of the Legion of Honor by the French President.

Becket or The Honor of God () is a play written in French by Jean Anouilh.

As the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover.

and was named an Officer of the French Legion of Honor.

For his outstanding service, he was awarded both the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Legion of Honor.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in helping to capture, off the coast of French West Africa in June 1944.

French President François Mitterrand invited Styron to his first presidential inauguration and later made him a commander of the Legion of Honor.

By March 1945 he was decorated with the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm.

In the 12th episode of season 11, he is wearing the third class of the Legion of Honor, the highest award given by the French government, who gave it to a select handful of American troops for their service in WWII.

Ms. Turocy has been decorated as Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

* 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote ( d. 1839 )

The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.

In March 1686, the French sent a raiding party under the Chevalier des Troyes over to capture the company's posts along James Bay.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

Lucrezia met the famed French soldier, the Chevalier Bayard while the latter was co-commanding the French allied garrison of Ferrara in 1510.

Many French were captured and incorporated into the Burmese Army as an elite gunner corps, under Chevalier Milard.

* 1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer ( d. 1972 )

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

* June 16 – WWII: Royal Navy planes sink the Vichy French ship Chevalier Paul

* January 1 – Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer ( b. 1888 )

* September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor ( d. 1972 )

* October 5 – Chevalier d ' Eon, French diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite ( d. 1810 )

* June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a French musician born on Guadeloupe ( b. 1745 )

* April 6 – Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Légion D ' honneur, French mathematician and scholar ( death unknown )

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur ( born 24 February 1955 in Lorette, Loire ) is a French racing driver.

French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

In 1989, the French government awarded the Comanche code-talkers the Chevalier of the National Order of Merit.

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

Maurice Auguste Chevalier ( September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972 ) was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer.

When not playing around with young chorus-girls, he actually felt quite lonely, and sought the company of Adolphe Menjou and Charles Boyer, also French, but both much better educated than Chevalier.