Tlie foundation of tlie French Foreign Legion, which took placo a hundred yearn ago, was the idea of a Gorman, 110110 other than Marshal Bluclier. anil to him the idea was suggested by the remnants of the eight foreign legions that Napoleon had enlisted for tho Waterloo campaign. Its first members included a number of officers and soldiers from Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Wurtemburg, and in command was placed a German general, Prince Louis Vpn HolienloheBartonstein. Eighty years ago it was reorganised, taken to Africa, aiid taught to march, and at that it has no equal, wnleh pmtwMv «**>ln.liw their regimental motto, J'Jlaiclj or diej"
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 13
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105Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 13
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