Constantly on call throughout the country, heavily engaged in fighting against the National Liberation Front and the Armée de Libération Nationale ( ALN ), the Foreign Legion was brought to the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment took part in the Generals ' putsch.

** 1st Foreign Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > RE ), based in Aubagne

** 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REC ), based in Orange, Vaucluse ( armoured troops )

** 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REG ), based in Laudun

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis met with Tajikistans Foreign Minister Zarifi during the 1st EU-Central Asia Forum on security issues in Paris in September 2008.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

Members of the 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company in Indochina. In May 1943, the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes was created from the 601e Groupe d ' Infanterie de l ' Air in Morocco and the 3ème and 4ème Bataillons d ' Infanterie de l ' Air ( BIA ) in England in the Special Air Service.

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley ( 1826 – 1902 ), politician and Foreign Secretary

* Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ( 1881 – 1959 ), Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India

* Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ( 1760 – 1842 ), Foreign Secretary and Governor-General of India

That Khe was quickly reinforced by the Foreign Legion's 1st Parachute Battalion ( 1st BEP ), which parachuted in on 17 September.

* 1st Foreign Regiment.

Sir George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925 ), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, but who was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, ( 16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959 ), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940.

In 1806 the Foreign Secretary, Charles James Fox, appointed him secretary to a diplomatic mission to Portugal, led by James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn and John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent.

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, after intrigues with the Prince Regent, resigned as Foreign Secretary and was replaced by Castlereagh.

In an article appearing in the Glasgow Herald on 29 September 1936 it was noted that John Cairncross had scored an " outstanding double success of being placed 1st in the Home List and 1st in the competition for the Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service ," and that he had been placed 5th in the ( Glasgow University ) bursary competition of 1930, and was also a Scholar and Bell Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

** Turkish crescent ( only in the French Foreign Legion and the 1st Spahi Regiment )

In 1850, he was promoted to full Colonel and given command of the 1st Regiment of the Foreign Legion, based in North Africa.

He was promoted to Brigadier General at Gallipoli in 1854, en route to the Crimea and led a Brigade ( the combined 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Foreign Legion ) in the Crimean War.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

* 1st Parachute Commando Battalion-1er Bataillon des Commandos Parachutistes ( 1er BCP ), old camp at Akouedo, on the route to the village Ébrié.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

The 1st Battalion served in the 4th Armoured Brigade that failed to link up with the 1st Parachute Division at the Battle of Arnhem.

* Free French Special Air Service ( SAS ), the predecessor unit of the French 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment ( 1er RPIMa )

* Fort Polk, a " T-72 " VISMOD is on display on Mississippi Avenue near the headquarters of 1st Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

In World War II, during Operation Market Garden ( September 1944 ), the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem.

Comet envisioned using the 1st Airborne Division, along with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, to secure several bridges over the River Rhine to aid the Allied advance into the North German Plain.

The Divisional Headquarters for the 1st Airborne Division, with the 1st Airlanding Brigade and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were to land at Nijmegen, 1st Parachute Brigade was to land at Arnhem, and 4th Parachute Brigade was to land at Grave.

Also relocated from the state of Rio de Janeiro were the 1st and 3rd Combat Cars Regiment, now stationed in the city of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

On graduation he joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1908 as a second lieutenant, and first saw service later that year in India.

He returned to the 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1925 as a company commander.

He returned to 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment again, as Commander of Headquarters Company in January 1929 and went to the War Office to help write the Infantry Training Manual in Summer 1929.

In 1931 Montgomery became lieutenant-colonel commanding the 1st Battalion of The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and saw service in Palestine and India.

– Private Deane, 1st Regiment Foot Guards.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The Brazilian president's honor guard is provided ( amongst other units ) by a regiment of dragoons: the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment.

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

The first two regular battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment are traditionally stationed overseas on peacekeeping duties ; the 1st Battalion has been posted to Lebanon, Iraq, and East Timor under the command of the UN, while the 2nd Battalion is stationed in Sinai with the MFO.

Ramsden tasked the Australian 9th Division with 44th Royal Tank Regiment under command with the Tel el Eisa objective and the South African 1st Division with eight supporting tanks, Tel el Makh Khad.

Following graduation, Second Lieutenant Davis was assigned to the 1st Infantry Regiment and was stationed at Fort Crawford, Wisconsin.

He was soon transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. Edwin V. Sumner.

Jackson chose to ignore Stuart's infantry designation and assigned him on July 4 to command all the cavalry companies of the Army of the Shenandoah, organized as the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment.

In 1958 the Regiment was re-titled as the 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, as were the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade, re-titled 1st and 3rd Green Jackets respectively.