Posted on Mar 9, 2016
The French Foreign Legion is founded | South African History Online
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Interesting story on how the French Foreign Legion was formed. I always thought they were always the best of the best to make it in.
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Thanks for sharing SGT John " Mac " McConnell. I had been curious about the French Foreign Legion ever since I saw the 1939 Gary Cooper movie Beau Geste. I knew the French empire did not extend as far as the British and that they used a different model of governing their colonies. The French Foreign Legion seemed to be the 19th century equivalent of a rapid deployment force to deal with trouble anywhere in the empire.
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