Foreign Legion most often refers to: *

French Foreign Legion The French Foreign Legion (, also known simply as , "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow List of militaries that recruit foreigners, foreign nationals into French service. The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consis ...

, a unit of the French Army Foreign Legion may also refer to:

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Brigade of Gurkhas Brigade of Gurkhas is the collective name which refers to all the units in the British Army that are composed of Gurkha, Nepalese Gurkha soldiers. The brigade draws its heritage from Gurkha units that originally served in the British Indian Arm ...

, light infantry unit of the British Army *

Foreign volunteers The armed forces of many nations have, at one time or another, used foreign volunteers who are motivated by political, ideological or other considerations to join a foreign army. These may be formed into units of a given nationality or may be f ...

, a term for troops joining a foreign army *

International Brigades The International Brigades () were soldiers recruited and organized by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The International Bri ...

, of the Spanish Civil War *

International Legion The International Legion was created in Italy by Giuseppe Garibaldi, on October 5, 1860 – in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Volturno, where the forces of the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were decisively broken. It had b ...

, created in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi *

International Freedom Battalion The International Freedom Battalion (; ; ), commonly abbreviated as IFB or EÖT, is a Revolutionary socialism, revolutionary socialist armed group consisting of Left-wing politics, leftist Foreign fighters in the Syrian civil war, foreign fighte ...

, a leftist foreign fighters fighting for the Rojava forces during the Syrian Civil War *

International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine The International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine, or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Government of Ukraine, Ukrainian ...

, a Ukrainian brigade created during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine *

King's German Legion The King's German Legion (KGL; ) was a formation of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Consisting primarily of expatriate Germans, it existed from 1803 to 1816 and achieved the distinction of being the on ...

(KGL), a British Army unit of expatriate Germans during the Napoleonic Wars *

Mahal (Israel) Mahal, more often spelled Machal (), refers to the group of overseas volunteers who fought alongside Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Some 4,000 volunteers, mostly Jews but also non-Jews, arrived from all over the world. Mahal ...

, foreigners serving in the Israeli army *

Polish Legions (Napoleonic period) The Polish Legions (; also known as the Dąbrowski Legions) were several Polish military units that served with the French Army in the Napoleonic era, mainly from 1797 to 1803, although some units continued to serve until 1815. After the T ...

, Polish military units that served with the French Army, 1790s–1810s *

Portuguese Legion (Napoleonic Wars) The Portuguese Legion ( French: ''Légion portugaise''; Portuguese: ''Legião Portuguesa'') was a 9,000 men strong Portuguese military unit integrated in the army of the First French Empire, formed after the French occupation of Portugal in ...

, a Portuguese military force in Napoleon's Imperial Armies *

Rhodesian Light Infantry The 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI), commonly The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks (Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia) as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia ...

, informally known as Rhodesian Foreign Legion (1961–1980) *

Royal Dutch East Indies Army The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (; KNIL, ; ) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The KNIL's air arm was the Royal Netherl ...

(KNIL), informally known as Dutch Foreign Legion (1830–1950) * Royal Sicilian Regiment (1806–1816) *

Russian–German Legion The Russian–German Legion was a military formation of the Imperial Russian Army raised in August 1812 in Reval by Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg after being instigated by Alexander I of Russia. Formation Its first commander was Oberst vo ...

, a Russian Army unit of expatriate German personnel during the Napoleonic Wars *

Spanish Legion For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments () such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the Penal la ...

, a quasi-independent unit of the Spanish Army * Värvat främlingsregemente, Recruited Foreigners Regiment, Swedish regiment of Polish deserters *

YPG International The YPG International or People's Protection Units International (Kurdish: ''YPG Enternasyonel'') is a military unit made up of foreign fighters in the Syrian Democratic Forces. It was created in December 2016 as the Antifascist International Tab ...

, foreign legion branches of the People's Protection Units (YPG).

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*'' The Foreign Legion'', a 1928 silent film *

Foreign Legion (band) Foreign Legion is a punk band from South Wales. History 1984–1991 Foreign Legion formed in 1984 from the remnants of a band called Society, later Dead On Arrival. Dead on Arrival had one song on 1984's ''Bullsheep Detector'' album. Foll ...

, a punk band from Wales * ''Foreign Legion'' (album), a 2002 album by Murfreesboro *''Foreign Legion'', a 2010 album by

Tin Hat Tin Hat (formerly the Tin Hat Trio) is an acoustic chamber music group currently based in San Francisco, California. Their music combines many genres of music, including jazz, southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical, eastern European folk mus ...

Foreign Legion (wrestling) Foreign Legion most often refers to: * French Foreign Legion, a unit of the French Army Foreign Legion may also refer to: Military * Brigade of Gurkhas, light infantry unit of the British Army * Foreign volunteers, a term for troops joining a ...

(La Legión Extranjera), a loosely affiliated group in Mexican wrestling *''Foreign Legions'', a 2001 anthology edited by

David Drake David A. Drake (September 24, 1945 – December 10, 2023) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran, he worked as a lawyer before becoming a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography ...

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