NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / March 3, 2020 / Welcome back to our exploration of the fascinating history behind one of the world's most intriguing military units, the French Foreign Legion.

A member of the French Foreign Legion salutes American ... restructure and even invent symbols, practices and lore that offered visible links between the historical and the post-1918 corps.

Jean-Vincent Blanchard takes up this question in his lyrical, detailed history of the French Foreign Legion. His book chronicles the military and political history of the organization in an effort ...

By Elizabeth Paton Since its formation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion ... the Pallabrousse Legion, to its collection. This March, when Palladium noted its history of outfitting soldiers ...

CAMP DE CARPIAGNE, France — For almost 200 years, the French Foreign Legion has prided ... Bourban pointed out that the Legion has a long history of working closely with the U.S. military ...

A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, leading a daring ... Rommel's Afrika Korps in what became one of the greatest sieges in the history of the ...

One in an occasional series about the people and events that may not have made the textbooks or may have been lost to history ... serving with the French Foreign Legion on the western front ...