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The Irish Legion fought for Imperial France during the Napoleonic Wars; 1st Regiment Venezuelan Rifles – Irish regiment that was part of the British Legions fighting in the South American Wars of Independence took part in the Venezuelan War of Independence. [19] St. Patrick's Battalion in the Mexican Army during the Mexican–American War.
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The British Legion (Spanish: Legión británica) or British Legions were foreign volunteer units which fought under Simón Bolívar against Spain for the independence of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, and under José de San Martín for the independence of Peru, in the Spanish American wars of independence.
British and Foreign Bible Society: 1843 Canadian Methodist Mission: 1891 Canadian Presbyterian Mission: 1871 Cassel Missionary Society 1850 Central China Religious Tract Society 1876 China Baptist Publication Society: 1903 China Inland Mission: 1862 China Missionary Alliance: 1901 China Tract Society: 1903 Chinese Evangelization Society 1853
American and British missionaries and their converts took refuge in the Methodist Mission and American marines repulsed an attack there by the Boxers. Soldiers at the British embassy and German legations shot and killed several Boxers. [13] The siege was called by the New York Sun "the most exciting episode ever known to civilization." [14]
The 11th Army Group was the main British Army force in Southeast Asia during the Second World War.Although a nominally British formation, it also included large numbers of troops and formations from the British Indian Army and from British African colonies, and also Nationalist Chinese and United States units.
Other former non-commissioned Chinese members of the regiment following disbandment were enlisted in a special unit of railway police responsible for the security of Imperial Railways of North China stations and other railway facilities. [20] During the First World War, the Chinese Labour Corps was recruited in Weihaiwei for service in France.
Men of the Chinese Labour Corps load sacks of oats onto a lorry at Boulogne while supervised by a British officer (12 August 1917). The Chinese Labour Corps (CLC; French: Corps de Travailleurs Chinois; simplified Chinese: 中国 劳工 旅; traditional Chinese: 中國 勞工 旅; pinyin: Zhōngguó láogōng lǚ) was a labour corps recruited by the British government in the First World War to ...