Foreign legion

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 foreign army
• International Brigades, of the Spanish Civil War
• International Legion, created in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi
• International Freedom Battalion, a leftist foreign fighters fighting for the Rojava forces during the Syrian Civil War
• International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, a Ukrainian brigade created during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• King's German Legion (KGL), a British Army unit of expatriate Germans during the Napoleonic Wars
• Mahal (Israel), foreigners serving in the Israeli army
• Polish Legions (Napoleonic period), Polish military units that served with the French Army, 1790s–1810s
• Portuguese Legion (Napoleonic Wars), a Portuguese military force in Napoleon's Imperial Armies
• Rhodesian Light Infantry, informally known as Rhodesian Foreign Legion (1961–1980)
• Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), informally known as Dutch Foreign Legion (1830–1950)
• Royal Sicilian Regiment (1806-1816)
• Russian–German Legion, a Russian Army unit of expatriate German personnel during the Napoleonic Wars
• Spanish Legion, a quasi-independent unit of the Spanish Army
• Värvat främlingsregemente, Recruited Foreigners Regiment, Swedish regiment of Polish deserters
• YPG International, foreign legion branches of the People's Protection Units (YPG).

Entertainment

• The Foreign Legion, a 1928 silent film
• Foreign Legion (band), a punk band from Wales
• Foreign Legion (album), a 2002 album by Murfreesboro
• Foreign Legion, a 2010 album by Tin Hat
• Foreign Legion (wrestling) (La Legión Extranjera), a loosely affiliated group in Mexican wrestling
• Foreign Legions, a 2001 anthology edited by David Drake

See also

• Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, a 1950 film
• Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, a 1947 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• French Foreign Legion (disambiguation)
• Legion (disambiguation)
• Military legions

1. French Foreign Legion
2. International Legion (Ukraine)
3. Spanish Legion
4. Garibaldi Legion (Foreign Legion)
5. Foreign Legion Command
6. Foreign Legion Pioneers (Pionniers)
7. History of the French Foreign Legion
8. Czechoslovak Legion
9. Origins of the French Foreign Legion
10. Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte
11. 1st Foreign Regiment (France)
12. List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country
13. Foreign Legion Recruiting Group
14. 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
15. Legion of Honour
16. Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
17. 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion
18. Legion
19. Foreign Legion (band)
20. Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion