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    The British Legion (Italian: Legione Britannica) was a military corps composed of English and Scottish volunteers, who in 1860 joined Giuseppe Garibaldi...
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  • British Legion can refer to any of the following: Royal British Legion, a British charity that provides support to military veterans Royal British Legion...
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  • British Legion (1860) British contingent of the above Nauvoo Legion, a significant militia in early Mormon history List of American Civil War legions...
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  • The International Legion was created in Italy by Giuseppe Garibaldi, on October 5, 1860 – in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Volturno, where...
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    the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ]), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour...
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  • the British Army Foreign volunteers, a term for troops joining a foreign army International Brigades, of the Spanish Civil War International Legion, created...
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    Banastre Tarleton (category British MPs 1790–1796)
    15 January 1833) was a British general and politician. He is best known as the lieutenant colonel leading the British Legion at the end of the American...
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  • The British raised the Jodphur Legion in 1836 at Erinpura Cantonment in the north-east of the Sirohi State, Rajputana 25°9′N 73°4′E / 25.150°N 73.067°E...
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  • Croix, 1860), religious and military leader. Awarded Legion of Honour for protecting Christians in Damascus during the Syrian crisis of 1860 Si Kaddour...
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    Ferdinand St Maur, Earl St Maur (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
    Apennins (1860) by Louis de La Varenne. Seymour was Military Secretary under Colonel John Whitehead Peard of the British Legion by October 1860. Seymour...
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    greater than any merely mundane treasure." On 5 October 1860, Garibaldi set up the International Legion bringing together different national divisions of French...
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    were transferred to HMS Lightning and the same HMS Legion which had rescued the crew of Cossack. Legion would itself be sunk in 1942, while the Lightning...
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    Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (category Officers of the French Foreign Legion)
    of the Legion of Honor  France: Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor  France: Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor...
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    under the authority of the Grand chancellor of the Legion of honour. The Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition was a 30 mm in diameter circular...
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    Music of the Foreign Legion (French: Musique de la Légion étrangère, MLE), formerly known as the Principal Music of the Foreign Legion (French: Musique principale...
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    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting...
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    to British and Commonwealth forces, and a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He was the eldest son of Major-General Matthew Charles Dixon RE (1791–1860) and...
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    Garibaldi Redshirts, and their leader. Garibaldian volunteers of the British Legion One of Garibaldi's lancers carrying a dispatch Truppa di Garibaldi Giuseppe...
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  • in the various colonies of the British Empire. During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some...
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    longer traditional wars, but part of a looming national crisis. In 1860, British and French troops landed near Beijing at the Taku Forts, where they...
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  • rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the British Crown. The Government of India Act...
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    Lee's Legion attacked a British outpost at Georgetown, South Carolina along side General Francis Marion in January 1781 and helped screen the British Army...
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    War he organized Portuguese soldiers into the Loyal Lusitanian Legion. During the British retreat from the Iberian peninsula in January 1809, Wilson refused...
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    several years. But on October 19, 1781, the British Army's defeat at the Siege of Yorktown led the British to conclude that the war was unwinnable, forcing...
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    in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other British military force since the Acts of Union 1707. See also Category:British generals...
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  • Robert Alexander Chermside (category 1860 deaths)
    Eagle and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He died at his home in Oxford on 8 September 1860. His grandson was the British Army officer Herbert Chermside...
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    Schwarze Schar (Black Troop, Black Horde, or Black Host) or Schwarze Legion (Black Legion) in German, were a military unit in the Napoleonic Wars. The corps...
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    Subsumed into the Légion de Panetier (becoming the Légion de la Reine at that moment) Creation: 1796 from the Légion de la Reine (ex-Légion de Panetier),...
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    started on 5 November 1860 and ended on 13 February 1861, and took place in Gaeta, in today's Southern Lazio (Italy). In September 1860, as the Garibaldine...
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    January 1814). Thousands of Germans came to Britain and joined the King's German Legion via Heligoland. The British annexation of Heligoland was ratified by...
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