Category Archives: Equipment

Hodgepodge for Spring 2023

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Jack Wagner

Camerone Day is just around the corner.  As most of you know, the Battle of Camerone was fought between a company of the Foreign Legion and over two thousand Mexican troopers and cavalry on April 30, 1863.  The besieged legionnaires … Continue reading →

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Le Sac

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Jack Wagner

I’ve always found the French Infantry rucksack/backpack/knapsack, or often just called disparagingly  “Le Sac” by Legionnaires, to be an object of amazement and amusement.  In many pictures it is  stacked ridiculously high with cooking pots and utensils, firewood, tent poles, … Continue reading →

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