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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
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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.
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