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unusual facts about Foreign Legion



Armand Carrel

He enrolled in the foreign legion and fought gallantly against his former comrades.

Dahomey Amazons

Ultimately, bolstered by the Foreign Legion, and armed with superior weaponry, including machine guns, along with cavalry and Marine infantry, the French inflicted casualties that were ten times worse on the Dahomey side.

Florin Zalomir

After the 2003 European Fencing Championships from Bourges, France, Zalomir joined the Foreign Legion.

Givin' Up and Gettin Fat

In this clip the band members feature as four ruffians in Marseilles, each getting into trouble and being chased across the city, eventually hiding in the Foreign Legion recruitment office.

Jürgen von der Lippe

Jürgen von der Lippe had already played a Catholic priest in the comedy Nicht mit Leo, in which he also played a brothel manager and a Foreign Legionnaire.

Karel Kuttelwascher

In France, the Czech airmen, including Kuttelwascher, were initially enlisted in the Foreign Legion.


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Beau Peep

Hamish joined the Foreign Legion when his beloved Dundee United lost a cup-tie to Arbroath F.C. and he could take it no more, and had to get out of Scotland.

Cummerbund

Some current French regiments, related to the French colonial history, still retain cummerbunds as part of their full dress uniform (notably the French Foreign Legion and the Spahis).

Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport

Camp Lemonnier – formerly a base of the French Foreign Legion, the camp is located on the southern side of the airfield

François Achille Bazaine

By midsummer 1875, Bazaine had settled in Madrid, where he was treated with marked respect by the government of Alfonso XII, who were grateful for Bazaine's conspicuous bravery as a young Foreign Legion Officer in the Carlist War.

Norman Prince

Captain Georges Thenault, the Escadrille's commander, credits Norman for conceiving the idea of bringing together his countrymen with some of those of the French Foreign Legion in a squadron of flyers to be initially known as the Escadrille Américaine.

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War

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

The Legion of Missing Men

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden, it stars Ralph Forbes who had also served in the cinematic Foreign Legion in Beau Geste (1926 film) and Beau Ideal (1931).