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	french foreign legion - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, then King of the French at the time, on March 10, 1831, to support his war in Algeria.
		The Foreign Legion was involved in the defense of Dien Bien Phu and lost a large number of their men in the battle.
		detachment of the Foreign Legion (DLEM) in Mayotte;
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/french-foreign-legion (923 words)

	History of the legion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Legion fought fiercly against the Riff and was known for cruelty and bravery.
		The Legion was involved in the Battle of Madrid (1939).
		In 1979 the Spanish Legion was estimated at 10,000.
	members.aol.com /Spain333/History.html (784 words)

	Spanish Sahara
		Note: The Spanish considered the period 23 Nov - 22 Dec1957 to be the "active" period of the war in Ifni.
		Note: The Spanish considered the period 12 Jan - 28 Feb to be the "active" period of the war in the Desert.
		Spanish patrols and convoys were involved in pitched battles in the Saharan territory.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/iberia/1956/index.htm (3469 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Spanish Foreign Legion
		The Spanish Foreign Legion has never had the same fame and glamour as the French Foreign Legion, perhaps because at least in its early history it never fought outside of Spanish colonial territory or perhaps because foreigners never made up more than 1/4 of the force.
		The founding father of the Legion Jose Millán Astray, the son of a prominent government lawyer.
		On the 7 of January of 1921, the Legion got it's first taste of combat in Morocco during the Riff War where Balthasar Queija Vega becomes the first Legionnaire to die in combat.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1154918 (354 words)

	Francisco Franco killer file
		Franco's father is a paymaster in the Spanish naval administrative corps.
		The legion becomes notorious for the ruthlessness and brutality of its attacks on Moorish villages and plays a decisive role in bringing the Moroccan revolt to an end.
		The army is composed of elite Spanish Foreign Legion battalions and native Moroccan units commanded by Spanish officers.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/franco.html (3246 words)

	Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion During the Rif Rebellion, 1920-1927, The Canadian Journal of History - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion During the Rif Rebellion, 1920-1927, The
		Major Franco, who began fighting in Morocco as lieutenant in 1912 and assumed the post of second in command of the newly-founded Spanish Foreign Legion in 1920, was a relentless field commander.
		Alvarez captures the spirit of the Spanish Legion in his title, The Betrothed of Death, a line taken from a song commissioned by its first commander, Lieutenant Colonel Millan in 1920.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200212/ai_n9148292 (921 words)

	The Betrothed of Death — www.greenwood.com
		Those interested in 20th century Spanish history will profit from the detailed analysis of the origins of the Spanish Foreign Legion and the role played by this remarkable institution in Spain's fraught relations with the protectorate in Morocco and in the development of Spanish domestic politics.
		When the Riffians annihilated the army of General Silvestre at Annual in 1921 and were poised to attack the Spanish enclave of Melilla, it was the arrival of the Legion that pacified its panic-stricken citizens.
		The force would be in the vanguard of all major offensives undertaken in recapturing the territory lost in 1921, and its amphibious landing at Alhucemas Bay in 1925 marked the beginning of the end for the Rif Rebellion.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM0697.aspx (671 words)

	"AXIS & FOREIGN LEGION MILITARIA
		In early July, a Spanish Military Commission was sent to the Reserve Headquarters in Berlin to discuss the structure and organization of the German Division.
		The town of Krasny Bor was defended by 5600 Spanish soldiers, which comprised of elements from the 262nd, 263rd and 269th regiments.
		Spanish representatives of the War Ministry in Madrid, authorized a special Spanish cachet to be used before 19 August 1941 for outgoing mail to the Eastern.
	axis101.bizland.com /SpanishFeldpost2.htm (1708 words)

	Spanish Legion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legion fought in Morocco in the War of the Rif (to 1926).
		From its establishment the Legion was noted for its plain and simple uniforms, in contrast to the colourful dress uniforms still worn by the Peninsular regiments of the Spanish Army until the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1932.
		The Spanish Legion nowadays is mostly used in NATO peacekeeping missions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_Legion (1277 words)

	Hobilar's History ScrapBook \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Spanish General Staff considered the idea to be sound, but before officially sanctioning the plan they despatched the one-eyed, one-armed Colonel to study the training methods of the French Foreign Legion at its depot at Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria.
		With the arrival of the Legion the course of the war was to turn abruptly in the favour of the Spaniards.
		Faced by both the French and Spanish the Riffs were finally forced to surrender in 1926 to Colonel Andre G. Corap, the man who as the General of the French 9th Army in 1940 had his Army broken by the Germans at Sedan.
	www.freewebs.com /hobilar/losnoviosdelamuerte.htm (1451 words)

	Special Units For the Spanish Civil War
		Like the Moroccan Regulares, the Spanish Foreign Legion took such heavy losses in the battles for Madrid through the Jarama that it virtually ceased to exist thereafter as an elite unit.
		The cooperation of Italian and German efforts in aiding the Spanish Nationalists was the cementing factor in the later Axis alliance between Germany and Italy.
		Loyalist regular army units could be found in the early stages of the war still in formation, though they were bled from desertion either to the Nationalists, or to Militia bands representing their local community and eventually were disbanded.
	www.santacruzchronicles.com /scw1.html (2387 words)

	The "Blue Division"
		On October 10, 1941, the Spanish Legion saw its first action in the sector between Ilmen and the west bank of the Volkhov river and participated in a major offensive against Leningrad which took place four days later.
		An assessment of the Spanish Volunteers would cast them in a favorable light, their fierce fighting abilities would place them among the most successful foreign legions who fought for the Third Reich.
		This award was surmounted by a Spanish Crown, with its main feature being a Spanish Eagle with an enamel Iron Cross in the center, representative of the collaboration between the nations.
	www.angelfire.com /nj/ww2/spanishvolunteers.html (1659 words)

	Foreign Legion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Originally intended to pacify Algeria, the legion also was active in the pacification of Morocco and fought in other areas of the French colonial empire and in both world wars.
		The legion was normally stationed in Algeria until 1962, when its headquarters were transferred to S France, near Marseilles.
		There have been many other foreign legions; e.g., a British legion participated in the Carlist Wars in Spain, and in the Spanish civil war (1936–39) the International Brigade fought on the Loyalist side.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fo/ForeignL.html (258 words)

	Sonshi Forum - An American Foreign Legion?
		Although a foreign legion is good because it isn't your voting citizens and relatives at risk, making receiving causalties much easier.
		That means a foreign wanting to join the USA army must have been successful at infiltrating the country illegally and evading the inmigration authorities, or he must be rather good at bending the law by not using his visa as it was intended.
		All in all i'd be in favor of the foreign legion, being foreign and wanting to serve, not really for the citizenship or the cash, i'd just like to serve in the US army.
	forum.sonshi.com /showthread.php?threadid=1795 (1478 words)

	SceScenario Notes, pt. 1: July 18, 1936-March 18, 1937
		Beevor states that the tanks were German and that Condor Legion planes flew as support; unlikely given that the German Panzer Battalion was not formed until October and that the Condor Legion, as such, did not begin arriving until Novemer.
		The Foreign Legion and Moroccan troops held the assault for four days when they were reinforced by cavalry.
		Spanish troops were the first to attack as part of the Italian offensive on Guadalajara.
	www.santacruzchronicles.com /scw5.html (14855 words)

	Axis Allies and Foreign Legions
		A new symbolic uniform was created which consisted of the red beret of the Carlist movement, the blue shirt of the Falangist movement (from which the division received its name) and the khaki trousers of the Spanish Foreign Legion, while Officers wore khaki shirts with blue cuffs and collar.
		An honest assessment of the Spanish Volunteers would cast them in a favorable light, their fierce fighting abilities places them among the most successful foreign legions who fought for the Third Reich.
		The award presented to the legions was the “Erinnerungsmedaille für die Spanischen Freiwilligen’ im Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus”, or “Commemorative Medal for Spanish Volunteers in the Struggle against Bolshevism..
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /related/axis_allies/blue_division.htm (1713 words)

	French Foreign Legion Collectables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As an integral part of the French army, the French Foreign Legion is a professional fighting unit using the same equipment and with the same missions as any other infantry, tank, or engineer unit of the French army.
		Both Soldeirs are doomed.And The French Foreign Legion is in the middle of all that.Part of the UN Peace keepers, they try to help the 3 Soldiers out of the trench.
		Focusing on the lives of men in a small French Foreign Legion outpost, the film emphasizes the banality and ritual of their days in the scorching sun.
	www.classicvhs.com /foreignlegion.html (4010 words)

	General Franco
		General Franco, the rebel Spanish leader, in an interview with a Press Association correspondent at his headquarters in Tetuan, made what appears to be virtually an appeal for international support, and also indicated the possibility of introducing large numbers of Riffs into Spain to fight against the Spanish Government.
		More important than this was the fact that the Spanish working class did not, as we might conceivably do in England, resist Franco in the name of 'democracy' and the status quo; their resistance was accompanied by - one might almost say it consisted of- a definite revolutionary outbreak.
		That is why since the beginning Russia has taken her place unconditionally on the side of the Spanish Republic by sending tanks and a thousand war-planes, and by mobilizing the undesirables of all Europe to fight for the Red Army.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/franco.html (5348 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| The other volunteers
		But the story of their counterparts on the other side, foreigners drawn to fight for the fascists, is little known.
		There had been a tradition of Spanish aristocratic families sending their sons to be educated in English Catholic public schools.
		He became a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion and by the end of the war was repatriated to England, seriously injured.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/5383218.stm (1617 words)

	Memoirs of the Earl of Listowel: Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The foreign deputies were invited by the Prime Minister to attend this Government function, and I had the good fortune to sit next to the Minister for Economic Affairs.
		The Spanish people turn towards Great Britain and ask you to raise your voice against the extermination of this civilian population of Barcelona and against the policy which prevents the Spanish Government from acquiring the means necessary to defend itself against this murder of more than 1000 women and children in a single day.
		The decisive factor in the Spanish civil war was support of Hitler and Mussolini for Franco, and absence of support eg "non-intervention" policy of western democracies and indifference of Stalin.
	www.redrice.com /listowel/CHAP4.html (7969 words)

	Foreign legion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A foreign legion is a regular military force consisting of foreigners who are not normally subjects of the country that employs them.
		The only remaining ones are that of France, and Spain; the phrase foreign legion in English generally refers to the French one.
		The best known are the Gurkha regiments of the present British and Indian armies and the Swiss regiments recruited by a number of countries during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_legion (144 words)

	Francisco Franco Behamonde - biography and Hausser / Elastolin portrait figures
		He was named commander of the Spanish foreign legion in 1923.
		Franco became a national hero for his role in suppressing revolts in Morocco, and at the age of 33 he was made brigadier general.
		In February 1936 Franco was send to a command in the Canary Islands by the left wing Spanish government.
	www.toy-soldier-gallery.com /Articles/Franco/Franco.html (189 words)

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		Wen the Riffians annihilated the army of General Silvestre at Annual in 1921 and were posed to attack the Spanish enclave of Melilla, it was the arrival of the Legion that pacified its panic stricken citizens.
		The force be in the vanguard of all major offensives undertaken in recapturing the territory lost in 1921, and its amphibious landing at Alhucemas Bay in 1925 marked the beginning of the end for the Rif Rebellion.~ Astray based his Spanish Foreign Legion on the French Foreign Legion.
		At first an exercise in straightforward profit-making, foreign exploration and colonization by British settlers, traders, and entrepreneurs soon gave rise to serious moral misgivings about the exploitation of native peoples and resources.
	www.denismcd.com /_bkr.txt (3851 words)

	Commentary Magazine - For Whom the Bell Tolled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is now fifty years ago, the "wound in the heart." Rightist risings against the Republican government occurred throughout Spain and succeeded in Seville, Galicia, and Badajoz.
		...Different or not, however, the mentality of the democratic West became intensely involved in Spanish matters, and, on the evidence of the recent bout of nostalgia aroused by the fiftieth anniversary of the war, it remains involved to this day...
		...In an azure dawn fifty years ago, General Francisco Franco, commander of the Spanish forces in the Canary Islands, arrived in Morocco in a Dragon Rapide monoplane rented in London by a journalist, to take command of the Spanish Foreign Legion...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I6P61-1.htm (2808 words)

	WSO\| Zemla's Massacre
		As few hundreds of people gathered in the Plaza of Africa in support of the Spanish organized rally, a larger crowd was also gathering in Zemla and asked the governor-general of Spanish Sahara, General Jose Maria Perez de Lema y Tejero, to come to Zemla in order to receive the movement's petition.
		The intervention of the Spanish Foreign Legion made things worse, their presence enfuriated more the demonstrators.
		The Legion opened fire and by some accounts eleven people were killed, though there has never been a general consensus on the number of casualties.
	www.wsahara.net /zemla.html (332 words)

	The French Foreign Legion
		Desertions from the Legion are a constant problem that continue to this day.
		In 1989, I enlisted in the Foreign Legion after taking a deep breath and making a leap of faith.
		Based on my own experiences, "Life in the French Foreign Legion: How To Join and What To Expect When You Get There" is a step-by-step chronological work that will guide you through the various phases of preparing for, joining, and living life in the Legion.
	www.foreignlegionlife.com (323 words)

	Foreign Legion — Infoplease.com
		Foreign Legion, French volunteer armed force composed chiefly, in its enlisted ranks, of foreigners.
		Viva la muerte!--A brief history of the Spanish foreign legion.
		Foreign legions: despite the lures, int'l helmers resist H'wood.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0819158.html (347 words)

	French Foreign Legion
		French Foreign Legion This is a comprehensive site with a lot of info.
		French Foreign Legion Organisation Home Page A comprehensive site with a large photo gallery.
		Spanish Foreign Legion - If you can't get into the FFL, you might try the SFL.
	www.geocities.com /dc3uscgr/FFL.html (338 words)

	James' French Foreign Legion Web Links and Information
		Simon Murray is an Englishman who served five years in the Foreign Legion during the war in Algeria.
		To join the French Foreign Legion, you must be male, between the ages of 18 and 40 years old (17 years old with parental permission), and regardless of where you live in the world, you must present yourself with a valid passport or identity card to one of the 20 recruiting centers (
		If the prospective recruit is not accepted, he will be returned to civilian life and the costs to return to the country of origin will not be paid by the French Foreign Legion or the Republic of France.
	www.geocities.com /foreignlegionlinks (652 words)

	French Foreign Legion
		In the beginning, the Legion was organized around 7 battalions:
		Third Company of the First Battalion of the Foreign Legion.
		and is the most cherished battle in the history of the Legion.
	members.tripod.com /~vet4/foreignlegion.html (1186 words)

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