The Army of Africa remained the elite spearhead of the Nationalist armies throughout the Civil War. Is the deployment of foreign legions in Spain in the 1830s a precedent to the Spanish legion raised in 1920? In the 1920s the Spanish Legion consisted of 5 battalions which primarily consisted of native Spaniards because foreigners were hard to recruit. the first unit recruited had one Chinese and one Japanese recruit it was always intended that the majority of its members be Spaniards who were joining to fight outside of European Spain.
On June 17, 1970, Legion units opened fire and killed eleven pro-independence demonstrators at the Zemla quarters of El-Aaiun in the Western Sahara, (then still the Spanish Sahara). I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}). While the Spanish Foreign Legion did accept non-Spaniards when it was first recruited (e.g. --Error 22:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC), Under Esprit de corps, what is 'Berber mistic a way', is it supposed to 'a mystic berber way'? Be a Spanish citizen (although citizens from former Spanish colonies can join), Be at least 18 years of age and not be turning 28 on the year of inscription, Be able to pass psychological, physical, and medical evaluations. The Legion fought Arab irregulars in the Ifni War in 1957-58. The reference to Legion Extranjera is therefore unhelpful without explaining how and when the name of La Legión was applied formally (clearly it was used informally from the beginning by Milan-Astray whose 1923 account of the unit's formation was titled La Legión.
The half-translations of the unit names are clumsy. Valetude (talk) 23:05, 25 December 2013 (UTC). The Spanish Legion nowadays is mostly used in NATO peacekeeping missions. Contrary to usual military practice, Legionnaires are allowed to sport beards and can wear their shirts open on the chest. The incident, which came to be called the Zemla Intifada, had a significant influence on pushing the Sahrawi anticolonial movement into embarking on an armed struggle which still goes on up to the present, though Spain has long since abandoned the territory and handed it over to Morocco. LEGIO IX HISPANA Events are logged under #event-logs on Discord, not on this board. The composition of the Spanish Legion today is as follows: Its members, regardless of rank, are titled. GodGDDLoL (godgddlol) TheLimeBall (thelimeball_bast298) Lists. Under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Juan Yagüe the Army of Africa played an important part in the Spanish Civil War on the Nationalist side. --Error 23:30, 18 September 2005 (UTC), According to Vidal, on that day a plain soldier could go to an officer and challenge him to a boxing match to settle accounts. This is a mess. To enlarger click on to photo repeat to shrink, The Third "Tercio" of the  La Legion, "Don Juan de Austria" ( Sahara Spanish and later in the Canary Islands). In recent years the Spanish Legion was involved in Bosnia as part of the SFOR. Although the detachment at Málaga was transferred away, every Holy Week a platoon of legionnaires disembarks to procession the. You know I'm hungarian (which is a once-Warsaw Pact, now-NATO country), and I served Hungarian Army (Honvedseg), and i did met people telling me, that a number of hungarians, slovakians, czech, polish and alike served in the Tercios. This became the First Spanish Legion until it was dissolved on 8 December 1838, when it had dropped to only 500 men. The reason Im asking is that I heard a couple people saying, that "most expatriates then gone for the French Foreign Legion, but a handful also to Spain - and that was the harder way...", Anyone who can tell if there were any other nationalities? There must have been some historic engagements. To begin with, the terminology regarding the name of the Legion is confused and contradictory. Historically there had been a Spanish Foreign Legion which preceded the modern Legion's formation in 1920.
This is reflected in the Spanish version of the article already. To have the meaning attributed, I am fairly sure extranjera would require a preposition and take the masculine form. I have also heard about raids against Muslim neighbourhoods in Melilla. TRIUNVIRATO HEROICO 2 x Sem.ana. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.57.66.90 (talk) 10:49, 25 September 2010 (UTC).
Somebody with more knowledge should clarify what is real and what legend.