The Strangest Foreign Fighters in History | Foreign Legion, International Brigades
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Foreign Legion, International Brigades, US Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Mexican American War, Siamese History, Ukrainian Foreign Legion, Italian Unification
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Rafael De Nogales, was Venezuelan military officer, and world traveler, he was a military officer in the Ottoman Empire during WW1 and fought in the Middle East and the Caucasus, he witness the Armenian Genocide and wrote about his Experiences and the Ottoman Empire in his Memoirs: Four Years beneath The half Moon
I'm going to see if this book is available. Nice call
IIRC there were also Siamese on the Confederate side too. Chang and Eng Bunker, the conjoined twins of Siamese origin for which the term Siamese Twin derives, had settled in the American South and used their wealth to acquire slaves. They also had many children. They claimed themselves post war that one son was injured and the other captured serving in the Confederate Army during the war. Interestingly, they have had multiple notable descendants since and their living descendants numbered somewhere around 1500 as of 2006
Really caught me off guard at the end there with "The Sudanese that fought with the French during the invasion of Mexico"
Yeah the french invaded mexico for some reason
@@Muslim-og3vc we know that part.. But what an earth were Sudanese doing there?
I mentioned it before in a video. The French helped the Egyptians in building the Suez Canal, so the Egyptians sent Sudanese to fight with the french.
and they invaded to installed an Austrian-Hungarian Prince as Emperor of Mexico that in current Times is being revered as one of the best Rulers Mexico Had as he abolished indentured servitude, gave basic labor Rights to the peasantry, guaranteed religious freedoms, Normalized regional dialects and set up the first State sponsored Public education schools in Rural Areas
The Islamic Legion was also to leave a strong impact on the Tuareg living in Mali and Niger. A series of severe droughts had brought many young Tuareg to migrate to Libya, where a number of them were recruited into the Legion, receiving an indoctrination that told them to reject their hereditary chiefs and to fight those governments that excluded the Tuareg from power
Thank you for reading the letter from Mongkut to Buchanan and getting the story right. I curated an exhibition in Bangkok in 2018 where we displayed the original letter and gave a tour to Rama X. He said "It's so well preserved."
>humiliated in a conflict with Chad
I mean… what did they expect?
I heard a number of Chickens rebelled in New South Wales in support of Emus in Australia in the 1930s.
Giuseppe Garibaldi II also joined the Catalan army of Macià, which was to liberate Catalonia in 1926. When the day came to cross the border in Prats de molló, he betrayed them and sold them to the French police, presumably on Mussolini's orders.
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I think the most interesting foreign fighter is Yasuke, the african slave from the Portuguese colonies who wound up in Japan, was freed and became a retainer of THE oda nobunaga, fought in several battles including the Incident at Honno-ji. He was captured by Akechi Mitsuhide but among all the samurai was spared and then faded from history. There is an interesting anime about him.
Francisco de Miranda fought in the French revolution, American Revolution, and the Venezuelan revolution.
This truly was the golden age of the soldier of fortune after world war one it really dipped off in popularity after the 30s there where meany still but it was quite apparent that war was changing and becoming more dangerous all over the world do to technological advances in weapons and general disregard of honer and chivalry war wasn't something to do for money or adventure anymore it was as it always should have been serious business
I'm biased but i always think about how Cool it is to hear about Portuguese that fought in Ethiopia and in southeast Asia like Thailand and Burma. I know they weren't exactly volunteers, maybe the Ethiopian ones in some ways, but still the idea of Portuguese fighting for such a far away and different place like Thailand is fascinating to me. Would love to see a video I on either of them!
Didn't the Emperor of Japan employ the use of American and British volunteers in their army during the civil war to overthow the Shogun?
Ya Tom Cruise was there.
@@stehfreejesseah7893 don't forgot Ken Wantanabe
You manage to pick the most interesting topics always
Ivor Thord-Gray was a Swedish adventurer who fought in the Chinese, Mexican and Russian revolutions.
Another idea to build on this video might be to talk about the wide array of Ethnic units in the Imperial British Army and discuss some of the cooler ones. Great video as always Jabzy.
There are germans (i believe kriegsmarine sailors) that fought for the indonesians during the indonesian national revolution and there are dutch defectors that became famous post war here as well
Great video!
There's also Admiral Guillermo Brown, Irish sailor that came to Argentina and ended up becoming Admiral, he fought in the wars against the spanish and portuguese
Im pretty sure there was a Swedish man fighting with the Americans against Morocco and Tripolitania in the First Barbary War, but I forgot his name
Not really a fighter but William Manley, a surgeon, won a Victoria Cross while in service for the British in the New Zealand Wars and then won an Iron Cross while in service with the Prussians in the Austro-Prussian War. He is the only man to win both awards.
Talking a US military pension in Thailand goes way back.. Who knew?
August Agbola O'Brown - Nigerian who fought in Warsaw Uprising
You should do a video on the indo pak wars
John A Heng who joined the US Navy out of Shanghai and served as powder boy and cabin steward in US Civil War. He lived in NYC and lost his right to vote in 1908 due to anti-Asian racist laws and petitioned President Taft as a veteran.
I know you didn't include the people that fought in the Spanish Civil war on purpose but Shapour Bakhtiar, the last pre Islamic Republic Prime Minister of Iran, fought there and then in 1940 went on to fight in a french artillery regiment and then joined the french resistance. I find it fascinating as during the period he grew up in, Iranians viewed themselves as Europeans and so he didn't view it as unusual as we might.
Lauri Törni / Larry Thorne was a Finn who fought in the German and Finnish armies in WWII and later went to America fighting in the Vietnam War in their Special Forces. Guy was a staunch anti-Communist.
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Haidresser/shampoo magnate Vidal Sassoon fought in the Israeli War of Independence because he was too young to fight in World War II. There were also a whole mess of high-ranking volunteer foreign officers in the American Revolution.
John Paul Jones later served in the Russian navy and fought the Ottoman navy in the Black Sea.
Cheng and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins had sons who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Well, an interesting case is the "Vulcano Batallion" of the war of the Pacific in South America that was composed of chinese coolies who fought for the chilean army, mostly as pontooners and sappers, due to the treatment the Peruvian had given them until then. Thing is, a big part of why the coolies decided to side with the chilean army was because a chilean army Captain, Patricio Lynch, had some knowledge of the language because he had fought in the Opium wars on the side of the british during his service in the royal navy.
Across the border there's also Benigno Benjamín Villanueva, who had an extremely eventful life, as he was an argentine who fought in Uruguay, then for the mexican army and lately became a russian general during the crimean war.
There's also the case of Mexico sending Yaqui "soldiers" to Spain to fight during the Rif war... mostly to get rid of said "soldiers".
Cool
Seems a lot of nationalities fight wars for other nationalities here, and that is sometimes for far away wars that their governments or nationalities have nothing to do with. Why you would volunteer to do this is another extended question. Even in the nineteenth (and earlier) centuries, you don't need go to war somewhere to travel. Politics is like shifting sand and war is an extension of it by other means (Carl von Clausewitz, "On war").
5:05 Cowboys, its just another version of cowboys and settlers becasue they acted simmilarly.
The first nagorno karabakh war had alot of odd volunteers
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War cossacks, ossetians, slavs on both sides, afghan muhajadeen, chechens ukrainians and turkish facists (grey wolves)
interesting 'coalition' of peoples
I recently watched a film based on the experiences of the Korean who fought with the Japanese, Russians and Wehrmacht before being captured by the Allies on or shortly after D-day. I'll try to find its' title shortly.
In English it's called "My Way".
As far as descendants of Irish exiles go, you should have mentionned Patrice de Mac Mahon : French marshall and President of the Third French Republic.
French Legionnaire: our battle will be legendary
What the world thinks: These foreign volunteers for the Ukrainian army will save us from the evil Putin.
Mercenary 1: Well, those empty houses will not loot themselves.
Mercenary 2: Just like in Bosnia 1993.
There was some Confederate guys in Egypt I am quite sure.
Cool lol
As an Afrikaner this is really interesting :)
Perhaps you should make a video about when forgien volunteers in the muslim world began in recent years, i assume it was the soviet afghan war
hooo boy he would be able to make an entire series, every country from west africa to china is a giant shaker of all sorts fighting for all sorts in the muslim world.
@@anasevi9456 i mean like a generalised video of most instances and where it all began too
Foreign muslim volunteers were in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
@@gequitz oh alright i was thinking that, or maybe even in ww1 where many decided to fight for the ottomans although i think the 1948 palestinine war was probably the start of the modern foreign jihad movement
There was the son of a Well-known French Aristocrat who fought with the Confederacy as a General being one of the last to die
I don't know why Abraham Lincoln refused the Thai king's gift of Asian elephants. They could have released them in Florida; ah oops, that was in the Confederacy.
generalize every volunteer for croatia as 'rightwing'
lol
Not everyone, just said they existed.
And here I thought that it was only over here in the new world where you would end up tripping over Irish folks in the strangest places. (From one "partially Irish but not nearly enough to call myself Irish" American to all the others :)
Seems to have worked, but gone horrifically wrong. See the on-the-ground video in Jimmy Dore's vid titled ""American Volunteer Soldiers Used As “Cannon Fodder” In Ukraine". I disagree with him on a lot, but his material in that one is directly sourced.
Dore is as db as a door knob.
The Serbs of the Confederate army
I have a female example for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Merkus
I don't know why Abraham Lincoln refused the Thai king's gift of Asian elephants. They could have released them in Florida; ah oops, that was in the Confederacy.