英语词汇“french foreign legion”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A military unit consisting of, or open to, foreign soldiers, esp. (with the) a volunteer force in the French army, consisting of French officers and chiefly foreign recruits (more fully French Foreign Legion).The French Foreign Legion was established in Algeria in 1831 to defend and enlarge the French Empire; following Algeria's independence in 1962, it transferred its headquarters to Corsica and then mainland France. The French Foreign Legion fought in numerous campaigns, particularly in French North Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and gained a reputation for strict military discipline and the audacity and endurance of its soldiers.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > mixed nationality

Foreign Legion1761

legion1835

International Brigade1900

1761 London Evening-post 21–24 Mar. The King has ordered four new Corps, called Legions, to be formed. The first, under the Command of Col. Quintus Icilius, and the Second, called the Brandenburgh Legion, will each consist of 6500 Men... We are actually raising the Fourth, which is to be called the Foreign Legion.

1831 St. James's Chron. 5–8 Feb. A proposition for forming a foreign legion to be composed of foreigners..is generally disapproved of.

1835 Yorks. Gaz. 6 June The French government has sent orders to Algiers to the French ‘Foreign Legion’ in that colony... This ‘Foreign Legion’ is composed of Poles, Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Germans, &c. &c.

1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly vii. 144 There was a small foreign legion of about five hundred men, made up chiefly of Italians and English.

1924 M. Magnus (title) Memoirs of the Foreign Legion.

1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ii. 19 The Foreign Legion, or Tercio, was founded in the early 1920s by General Millán Astray.

1995 A. Levy Every Light in House Burnin' xvii. 180 They made up rules,..and made us stick to them with a rigidity the Foreign Legion would have been proud of.

2009 Daily Tel. 24 July 15/1 Local officials expressed fury at the Foreign Legion for using tracer-bullets.

单词	french foreign legion
释义	> as lemmas French Foreign Legion A military unit consisting of, or open to, foreign soldiers, esp. (with the) a volunteer force in the French army, consisting of French officers and chiefly foreign recruits (more fully French Foreign Legion).The French Foreign Legion was established in Algeria in 1831 to defend and enlarge the French Empire; following Algeria's independence in 1962, it transferred its headquarters to Corsica and then mainland France. The French Foreign Legion fought in numerous campaigns, particularly in French North Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and gained a reputation for strict military discipline and the audacity and endurance of its soldiers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > mixed nationality Foreign Legion1761 legion1835 International Brigade1900 1761 London Evening-post 21–24 Mar. The King has ordered four new Corps, called Legions, to be formed. The first, under the Command of Col. Quintus Icilius, and the Second, called the Brandenburgh Legion, will each consist of 6500 Men... We are actually raising the Fourth, which is to be called the Foreign Legion. 1831 St. James's Chron. 5–8 Feb. A proposition for forming a foreign legion to be composed of foreigners..is generally disapproved of. 1835 Yorks. Gaz. 6 June The French government has sent orders to Algiers to the French ‘Foreign Legion’ in that colony... This ‘Foreign Legion’ is composed of Poles, Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Germans, &c. &c. 1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly vii. 144 There was a small foreign legion of about five hundred men, made up chiefly of Italians and English. 1924 M. Magnus (title) Memoirs of the Foreign Legion. 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ii. 19 The Foreign Legion, or Tercio, was founded in the early 1920s by General Millán Astray. 1995 A. Levy Every Light in House Burnin' xvii. 180 They made up rules,..and made us stick to them with a rigidity the Foreign Legion would have been proud of. 2009 Daily Tel. 24 July 15/1 Local officials expressed fury at the Foreign Legion for using tracer-bullets. extracted from Foreign Legionn. < as lemmas
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