Polish Legions (Legiony Polskie) may refer to, in chronological order:
- 5th Rifle Division (Poland) or Siberian Division
- 58th New York Infantry, a.k.a. the Polish Legion, commanded in the U.S. Civil War by Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
- Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848
- Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division
- Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division
- Polish 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment
- Polish 3rd Legions Infantry Division
- Polish Legions (Napoleonic period), created by Henryk Dąbrowski during the Napoleonic Wars
- Polish Legion in Finland
- Polish Legion in Turkey, formed around 1770s, as part of the Confederation of Bar
- Polish Legions in World War I
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“You will have to polish up the stars
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as the earth empties out
into the gnarled hands of the old redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.”
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