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Spanish Legion, Spain.

Spanish Legion, Spain.

Title: "¡¡TE ESPERAMOS, VALIENTE!!"/“WE AWAIT YOU, BRAVE ONE!!". On the bottom text “VOLUNTARIO ESPECIAL (Modalidad “A”) translates to SPECIAL VOLUNTEER “(Modality "A")".

This original Spanish poster was used to encourage enlistment in Spanish Legion. The poster features a soldier in the foreground with a skull smiling behind him, symbolizing the ever-present threat of death in war.

"Modality A" in the Spanish Legion refers to joining the Legion as a professional soldier. It is one of the ways to enter the Spanish Legion, focused on those who wish to pursue a military career and serve in this elite unit of the Spanish Army.

Historical context:

For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments (Infantería de línea extranjera) such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal laws). However, the specific unit of the Spanish Army and Spain's Rapid Reaction Force, now known as the Spanish Legion (Legión Española, La Legión), and informally known as the Tercio or the Tercios, is a 20th-century creation. It was raised in the 1920s to serve as part of Spain's Army of Africa. The unit, which was established in January 1920 as the Spanish equivalent of the French Foreign Legion, was initially known as the Tercio de Extranjeros ("Tercio of foreigners"), the name under which it began fighting in the Rif War of 1921–1926.

Artist: Salas

Size: 64x42 cm

Language: Spanish

Printed in 1987

Made in Malaga, Spain.

Publisher: Gráficos SALCEDO

Condition: as seen on the pictures

This is not a recent issue, replica or tourist souvenir

    £300.00Price
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