In 1932, the Foreign Legion consisted of 30, 000 men, serving in 6 multi-battalion regiments:

The pre-Marian Roman Legion was a combined arms force and consisted of five classes of troops.

Later, he obtained the authorization to employ also the regulars stationed in Sicily, which consisted mainly of the remnants of the 5th and 6th Legion, exiled to the island as a punishment for the humiliation they suffered in the Battle of Cannae.

Hampton organized and partially financed the unit known as " Hampton's Legion ", which consisted of six companies of infantry, four companies of cavalry, and one battery of artillery.

Many of them members of the Maccabi sports club and some of them veterans of the Jewish Legion, their month of training largely consisted of calisthenics and hand to hand combat with sticks.

The Condor Legion, upon establishment, consisted of the Kampfgruppe 88, with three squadrons of Ju 52 bombers and the Jagdgruppe 88 with three squadrons of Heinkel He 51 fighters, the reconnaissance Aufklärungsgruppe 88 ( supplemented by the Aufklärungsgruppe See 88 ), an anti-aircraft group, the Flakbteilung 88, and a signals group, the Nachrichtenabteilung 88.

By the wars end in 1949, the Arab Legion consisted of over 10, 000 men manning a 100-mile front, which then expanded to a 400-mile front following the withdraw of Iraqi forces.

Unfortunately, this ' heroic ' status consisted of Legion being one of the mutants responsible for generating a force wall to cut the mutants off from continuous assault and persecution from the rest of humanity, to the point that ' Moira ' was creating random soldiers simply for Legion and the other mutants to kill them and create the impression that they were ' safe '.

It consisted at Waterloo of a brigade of British light infantry and riflemen, a brigade of the King's German Legion and a brigade of Hanoverian Landwehr.

It consisted of former Legion of Super-Heroes members Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy, and Duo Damsel, as well as Night Girl, a new Karate Kid ( Myg of Lythyl ), and Comet Queen.

" Legion " was an 18th-century term for a military unit the size of a regiment but consisting of infantry and cavalry, or infantry, cavalry, and artillery, all under one command, to make it more flexible for scouting or irregular operations than a regiment that consisted of infantry or cavalry alone.

The new team consisted of U. S. Agent ( John Walker, the fifth Captain America ); Union Jack ; a mysterious flame-generating girl named Tara ; former Liberty Legion member the Thin Man ( Dr. Bruce Dickson ), who remained ageless as, evidently, a by-product of his transformation in the super-scientific haven Kalahia ; and the Blazing Skull ( Mark Todd ), who remained ageless due to supernatural means.

The second battalion, under Arnold's command, consisted of the 38th Foot and a variety of Loyalist units, including the Loyal American Regiment and Arnold's provincial regiment, known as the American Legion.

The force he took in pursuit of Buford consisted of 170 Legion and British Army dragoons, 100 mounted British Legion infantry, and a three-pounder cannon.

After 4 – 5 months ' leave in Algeria and France, in 1951 he was given command of a company ( 2nd CIPLE ) in the 2nd BEP ( Battalion of Legion Parachutists ) which consisted of Vietnamese volunteers.

The Newsboy Legion consisted of Tommy Tompkins ( the leader ); Big Words ( the team genius ); Gabby ( an excitable kid who never stopped talking ); and Scrapper ( the tough guy ).

The track-listing consisted of Torn to Pieces, Legion of Doom, Scream Bloody Gore, Sacrificial Cunt ( later shortened to Sacrificial because the label asked the band to do so, possibly because “ they didn ’ t want to get P. M. R. C.

The Eastern Legion, under the command of Barkof, Grigorakis, and Psaros, consisted of 500 Maniots and six Russians.

The Western Legion, under the command of John Mavromichalis ( nicknamed The Dog ), Dolgorougoph, and Komoundouros, consisted of 200 Maniots and twelve Russians.

The bulk of the French forces stationed near the frontier with Thailand consisted of Indochinese troops of the 3rd and 4th Tirailleurs Tonkinois ( Tonkinese Rifles ), together with a battalion of Montagnards, French regulars of the Colonial Infantry, and Foreign Legion units.

* 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.

The new Third Republic was desperately short of trained soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War, so the Foreign Legion was ordered to provide a contingent.

Monument commemorating the soldiers of the Foreign Legion killed on duty during the South-Oranese campaign ( 1897 – 1902 ).

Following the war, many former German soldiers joined the Foreign Legion to pursue a military career with an elite unit, an option that was no longer possible in Germany.

As a result of this, a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the King's German Legion, which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic wars against the French.

The beginnings of the modern army arose during 1916, when the French government established the " Legion of the Orient ", which included Lebanese soldiers.

Despite a number of reforms, the Legion system survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and was continued in the Eastern Roman Empire until around 7th century, when reforms begun by Emperor Heraclius to counter the increasing need for soldiers around the Empire resulted in the Theme system.

The Indische Freiwilligen Infanterie Regiment 950 ( also known at various stages as the Indische Freiwilligen-Legion der Waffen-SS, the Legion Freies Indien, and Azad Hind Fauj ) was created in August 1942, chiefly from disaffected Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army, captured by the Axis in North Africa.

* April 30 – Battle of Camarón in Mexico: 65 soldiers of the French Foreign Legion fight 2, 000 Mexicans ; 3 of them survive the battle.

* June 30 – The last soldiers of the French Foreign Legion leave Algeria.

This particular raid targeted a position of the Jordanian Arab Legion in one of the old British police forts, during which 18 Israeli soldiers and up to a hundred Legionnaires were killed.

Roman soldiers from the 10th Legion camped on the Mount during the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE.

In the winter and spring of 1781 ( from November 1780 to June 21, 1781 ), the French duc de Lauzun's Legion of Horse, comprising 220 soldiers, encamped in Lebanon.

The disoriented Union soldiers retreated into Waynesville, and on the evening of May 6 remaining elements of the Thomas Legion surrounded the town.

Located to the South of Aylesford, on the A20 London Road, The Royal British Legion Village was founded after the First World War to help injured soldiers on discharge from the nearby Preston Hall hospital.

It is also possible to randomly meet Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the savannah, as French Foreign Legion soldiers.

The German Legion proved useless in battle because many of the soldiers switched sides, and the officers, including Augereau and François Marceau found themselves in prison.

Originally, the Legion was composed mainly of Italian soldiers, but by the 3rd century CE the legion was almost entirely of Punic and Libyan origin.

As was the case throughout the empire, soldiers of the Third Augustan Legion were forbidden to marry.

Tacfarinas traveled through North Africa collecting Roman soldiers left behind by the Third Augustan Legion ; Tacitus describes this process as a “ cherry picking ” of sorts, using soldiers who had already been trained by the Roman army and using their skills against their creator.

* A fictionalized account of the actions of Legio XIII Gemina during the struggle between Julius Caesar and the Optimates faction under Pompey can be seen in the joint HBO / BBC / RAI television production Rome, most notably two of its soldiers: Centurion Lucius Vorenus and Legionary Titus Pullo, named after real-life Centurions Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo of the XI Legion.

The first modern attempt to settle the area was made by the Yishuv, the body of Jewish residents in Mandate Palestine, on 23 February 1921, when the British Mandate government allowed released soldiers from the Jewish Legion to settle in the area.

To the Foreign Legion he remains a hero and to this day is honoured as one of their bravest soldiers.