Historia de la Legión

What does the Tercio have that makes you fall in love and leaves a mark impossible to erase? Above all, it is the human component that forms it, men and, now, women who leave everything to serve a Flag. Men who from all corners of Spain and abroad responded in 1920 to Millán-Astray's call to form a new unit that would win a war that was being lost. That leaving all "their previous life" they enlisted there where they were only promised to achieve a glorious death and, very few, to obtain the job of captain. Men who, a few months after the Legion was born, went to Melilla to save it from the Rif people who were besieging it and who, just by their presence in the streets of Melilla, the population felt liberated. Men who watered the barren lands of Ifni and Sahara with their blood. Men who left a territory where they built barracks that were the admiration of visitors and who one day, clenching their fists and with emotion in their throats, sang their legionary hymns for the last time and recited their Creed. Men and women who, feeling like islanders and majoreros, had to pick up their backpack again, abandon their barracks built with their hands and go to meet their brothers on Andalusian soil, who were already installed in the Serranía de Ronda. These are the men and women who, united by the Legionary Creed, "form Flags".