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  • FERNANDO LÁZARO

    @lazaroelmundo

    Madrid

Updated on Saturday, 19 September 2020 - 03:26

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  • 'Operation Balmis'.

    This was the largest military deployment in Spain of democracy

  • Coronavirus

    The chaplain of the Legion: "I have seen in the elderly the same look of children in war"

They were born to stop a bloodletting in Morocco, a constant loss of life.

They were born to face an enemy that had taken our measure, to become a wall against the Riffians who were the Spanish nightmare in North Africa.

And of that, already a hundred years.

It started because Lieutenant Colonel

José Millán-Astray

ordered it

, as the

Tercio de Extranjeros

, the original name of the

Legion

, to replace some mandatory draft troops.

They were all volunteers.

Foreign

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