See a short but new official video presentation of the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (DLEM), the last permanent post of the French Foreign Legion to remain in Africa.
165 years ago: Another French Foreign Legion organized
See the history of another Foreign Legion organized in France, this time in early 1855, to take part in the Crimean War against the Russian Empire. The second Legion was composed of the Swiss exclusively and distinguished from the first one by their green uniform. It eventually became the 1st Foreign Regiment and was sent to Algeria. The unit lost its Swiss character in 1859.
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2e REI: Training for Africa 2020
See a video of a platoon from the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) that is training in France before their deployment to Mali in West Africa, to participate there in anti-terrorist Operation Barkhane.
1er REG: A legionnaire “powerman” in Iraq
Corporal Pavel of the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG), one of the two engineer regiments of the French Foreign Legion, is currently deployed to Iraq, as part of Operation Chammal, a French military operation in Iraq and Syria. He serves as a skilful electrical mechanic.
1er REC: Raider Fury with U.S. Marines
In December 2019, the legionnaires of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) participated in a three-day Exercise Raider Fury alongside U.S. Marines, at Camp Carpiagne (France), the garrison of the 1er REC. See videos.
2e REG: An exercise for commandos
In November 2019, two elite units of the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) conducted a joint exercise to train an infiltration mission into hostile terrain. See the video.
70 years ago: The last mounted company disappeared
See a complete history of the legendary Foreign Legion companies mounted on mules. The last of them disappeared 70 years ago in Morocco, in late December 1949. Elite high-mobile units, consisting of hard men loving the autonomous life far from the civilization, they played crucial role in the successful conquest of Algeria’s South Oran between the 1880s and 1900s. Shortly afterwards, they took part in the Pacification of Morocco and were fighting there until the mid-1930s.