Foreign Legion
- a military formation of the French army founded in the 1830s to fight France's colonial wars. Composed, except for the higher ranks, of non-Frenchmen, the Legion was famed for its audacity and endurance. Its most famous campaigns were in French North Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.外籍军团（法国于19世纪30年代成立的军团, 在法国海外殖民地作战, 除高级军官外, 均由外籍人员组成, 以勇敢和坚忍著称, 因19世纪末20世纪初在法属北非的战役著名）。