The Caribbean Legion (Spanish: Legión del Caribe) was a group of progressive Latin American leaders, exiles, and revolutionaries in the 1940s. They aimed...
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José Figueres Ferrer (section Return to Costa Rica, the Caribbean Legion, and the Costa Rica Civil War (1944–1948))
Figueres and the Social Democratic Party. Figueres began training the Caribbean Legion, an irregular force of 700. Figueres launched a revolution along with...
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Figueres began training the Caribbean Legion, an irregular force of 700. Hoping to use Costa Rica as a base, the Legion planned to move against other...
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The Anti-Communist Foreign Legion of the Caribbean (Spanish: Legión Extranjera Anticomunista del Caribe, LAC) was an anti-Castroist right-wing paramilitary...
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This list of military legions is in chronological order where possible. In modern times, most units using the name "military legions" were composed of soldiers...
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the other Latin American governments, Arévalo began to support the Caribbean Legion, which sought to replace dictatorships with democracies across Latin...
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The Polish Legions (Polish: Legiony Polskie we Włoszech; also known as the Dąbrowski Legions) were several Polish military units that served with the...
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opportunity.Another cause for U.S. worry was Arévalo's support of the Caribbean Legion. The Legion was a group of progressive exiles and revolutionaries, whose...
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Juan Bosch (politician) (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
Confites expedition of 1947, in which a military force backed by the Caribbean Legion unsuccessfully attempted to invade the Dominican Republic from Cuba...
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his brothers Alvaro and Hernán joined the revolutionary army known Caribbean Legion. He was a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences...
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Retrieved 17 February 2018. Ameringer, Charles (1 November 2010). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950. Penn State...
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following is a list of notable foreign members of the Legion of Honor by their country of origin. The Legion of Honor is the highest decoration in France. and...
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Sites Politics of the Caribbean region: Afro-Caribbean leftism Association of Caribbean States Caribbean Community Caribbean Legion CARIFORUM Coat of arms...
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This conception had been strengthened by Arévalo's support for the Caribbean Legion, and by the 1950s the US government was considering overthrowing Árbenz...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow is an action-adventure video game developed by 7 Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks for...
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interventions by the Soviet Union Foreign interventions by the United States Caribbean Legion Cuban military internationalism Domínguez, Jorge (1989). To Make a...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Superman Returns (2006) The Host (2006) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's...
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that the army at the time was made mostly of foreign mercenary of the Caribbean Legion[citation needed] or that it was obsolete and an unnecessary use of...
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He died in Santo Domingo on August 10, 1983. Ameringer, C. (2010). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950. Pennsylvania...
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The Danube Legion (Polish: Legia Naddunajska; or the Rhine Legion - French: Legion du Rhine) was a unit of Poles in the service of Napoleonic France....
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Remembrance poppy (redirect from Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal)
in the Caribbean, including Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, source their remembrance poppies from the Royal Canadian Legion through...
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of the National Liberation Army. Key allies for Figueres were the Caribbean Legion and Frank Marshall, the leader of the anti-communist forces with dual...
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biography in El País (Spanish) Charles. Ameringer (1 November 2010). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950. Penn State...
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from the original on 2014-05-18. Ameringer, Charles (November 2010). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950. ISBN 978-0271042183...
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Haiti portal Polish Legions (Napoleonic period) Pachonski, Jan (1986). Poland's Caribbean Tragedy: A Study of the Polish Legions in the Haitian War of...
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The Central Band of The Royal British Legion is a concert band associated with the Royal British Legion. In 2004, it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee, marking...
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for all I care". She was speaking at the launch of this year's British Legion Poppy Appeal, and had been asked if she had anything to say to people who...
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American actor, known for his roles as young Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and Jan Axel Blomberg in Lords of Chaos...
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Jocelyne Béroard (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
peaked at number four in France. In 1999, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. In 2014, she sang "On n'oublie pas" (written by Serge Bilé) with...
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Publishing, Copyright 1971 p. 27 Ameringer, Charles (2010-11-01). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950. Penn State...
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