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Le Boudin" (French pronunciation: [lə budɛ̃]), officially "Marche de la Légion Étrangère" (English "March of the Foreign Legion"), is the official march of the Foreign Legion. "Le Boudin" is a reference to boudin, a type of blood sausage or black pudding. "Le boudin" colloquially meant the gear (rolled up in a blanket) that used to be ...
Lance Corporal Joseph Novak, WWII Veteran. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps served in France, Belgium, The Netherlands. Awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2021. [96] Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon. [97] Pascal Poirier, author, lawyer and Canada's longest-serving senator, he was honored as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur ...
A corporal in the Royal Irish Fusiliers during WW II, awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2015, aged 91, in recognition for his part in the D-Day Normandy Landings (Gold Beach). [150] Derrick Dighton, a British veteran, was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2016 for his efforts during the D-Day landings.
portrait of Robert II de La Marck. In 1518, Robert left French service after his company of lances was disbanded due to pillaging. [4] Robert led pillaging expeditions, launched from the castle of Logne, into the Low Countries which belonged to Emperor Charles V. [5] In 1521, he placed Virton under siege, thus instigating the Four Years War. [2]
Legio Patria Nostra (in French La Légion est notre Patrie, in English The Legion is our Fatherland) is the Latin motto of the Foreign Legion. [80] The adoption of the Foreign Legion as a new "Fatherland" does not imply the repudiation by the legionnaire of his original nationality.
Boso I le Vieux (the Old), count of La Marche and count of Périgord (958–988) Aldebert I, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–997) Boso II, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–1010) Bernard I (1010–1041) His daughter, Almodis, married firstly with Hugh V of Lusignan, and their son Hugh VI inherited later the county of Marche by her ...
Born in Sedan, Ardennes, in 1491, Robert was the son of Robert II de la Marck; Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and Fleuranges, [1] and Catherine de Croÿ. [2]A fondness for military exercises displayed itself in his earliest years, and at the age of ten, Robert was sent to the court of Louis XII, and placed in charge of the count of Angoulême, afterwards King Francis I.
14th century: A military song entitled "La marche des soldats de Robert Bruce" (march of the soldiers of Robert Bruce) is still played in France nowadays, for instance during the Bastille Day military parade. 1847: Robert Bruce, a pasticcio opera by Gioacchino Rossini; 1968: The Corries song "Flower of Scotland" is a tribute to Robert Bruce. It ...