2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (France)
The 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. The regiment is one of two mechanized infantry regiments of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade.
2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (France)
Barracks in Nîmes, France.
Captain Jean Danjou (Battle of Camarón)
Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion is an elite corps of the French Army that consists of several specialties: infantry, cavalry, engineers, airborne troops. It was created in 1831 to allow foreign nationals into the French Army. It formed part of the Armée d’Afrique, the French Army's units associated with France's colonial project in Northern Africa, until the end of the Algerian War in 1962.
Uniform of a legionnaire during the 1863 Mexican campaign
A Legionnaire sniper at Tuyên Quang
Monument commemorating the soldiers of the Foreign Legion killed on duty during the South-Oranese campaign (1897–1902).
Review of the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion, RMLE at the end of November 1918