Foreign Legion - in Military

In Military

• Polish Legions,several Polish military units that served with the French Army from the 1790s to the 1810s.
• Portuguese Legion, a Portuguese military force integrated in the Napoleon's Imperial Armies, mobilized after the occupation of Portugal, in 1807.
• King's German Legion (KGL), a British Army unit of expatriate German personnel during the Napoleonic Wars
• Russian–German Legion, a Russian Army unit of expatriate German personnel during the Napoleonic Wars
• Foreign volunteers, a general term for troops joining a foreign army
• Mahal (Israel), Israeli equivalent of the foreign legion
• Spanish Legion, a quasi-independent unit of the Spanish Army originally intended as an equivalent to the French Foreign Legion
• Brigade of Gurkhas, light infantry unit of the British Army largely manned by ethnic Nepali.

The title Foreign Legion has been applied commonly but unofficially to:

• Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL), informally known as "Dutch Foreign Legion" (1830–1950)
• Rhodesian Light Infantry, informally known as "Rhodesian Foreign Legion" (1961–1980)
• International Legion, created in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi
• International brigades, of the Spanish Civil War
• Recruited Foreigners Regiment, Värvat främlingsregemente, Swedish Regiment made up of Polish deserters during the Great Northern War