"The Foreign Legion was raised in 1831 to replace some of the French troops who were being decimated by disease during the unpopular Algerian expedition launched the previous year. At first treated as little better than a labour corps (and actually handed over to Spain in 1835),…
Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, establishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and Wo…
Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, estabilishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and W…
