What battle does the French Legion Celebrate Annually ?
The legion's monument of the dead at Aubagne—originally built in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, for the legion's 1931 centennial—remains the focus of celebrations each April 30, the anniversary of the battle of Camerone (Camarón, Mexico) in 1863, in which about two-thirds of a company of 65 legionnaires perished while ..
