Sentence examples for foreign legionnaires from inspiring English sources

In 1890 French foreign legionnaires massacred the amazonian army of Dahomey, one of west Africa's great kingdoms.

It began on July 17 , 1936 in Morocco, home of Spain's army of Moors and foreign legionnaires.

IN 1939, George Orwell wrote of Westerners flocking to Marrakesh in search of "camels, castles, palm-trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays and bandits".

Among the dead were a mix of homegrown stars and foreign "legionnaires," Olympic gold medalists, Stanley Cup champions and veterans at the end of storied careers.

"Beau Travail" ("Good Work"), the story of a troop of French Foreign Legionnaires, is set in present-day Djibouti, in East Africa.

He has survived at least one attempt on his life and never travels anywhere without his personal security team, made up of former French foreign legionnaires.

The most wanted suspect, former general and French Foreign Legionnaire Gotovina, was arrested in the Canary Islands in 2005 after four years in hiding.

An ex-French Foreign Legionnaire was also recruited as a sleeper agent who could be used in an assassination plot against Tony Blair, it emerged during the trial.

Things seemed to go well at first, but then Klinkhamer, who was a former foreign legionnaire, sometime auditor and part-time author, began to drink heavily.

He becomes his own father – a drunken sea captain – a telegram boy, a Carmargue "guardian", a journalist and a foreign legionnaire.

At one extreme there is the former Foreign Legionnaire and double murderer who rowed with his probation officer, and the former pirate, smuggler and gambler who liked nothing better than picking a fight with sharks.