Do you know where the site of the French Foreign Legion's most revered battle is?

I DO!!! My biggest love in life (besides my girlfriend of course) is history. Any kind of history. I can watch the History Channel for hours on end. I especially like military history. I read Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" when I was in eighth grade and from the on I was hooked. Since then I've read all the military history and fiction books I could get my hands on.

I really can't explain why I love it I just do. I love history in the same way my friend John loves to mess with computer programs. Unfortuneatly for me his passion is a hell of a lot more practical than mine. For the past few years he's been filling his mind with the fine details of DOS, Java, Pascal, C++, Html, and god knows how many other computer languages. In the same period of time I've been cramming the synapses of my brain with useless info about Trafalgar, the First and Second Battles of Bull Run, the positives and negatives attributes of both the T-34 and the Tiger Tank, and how Catherine the Great may or may not have died while having sex with her horse.

Now I don't mind knowing these things, in fact I'm rather glad I do. It's just that due John's passion for computers he's a CL, saves tons of money because he buys his computers in parts and puts them together himself, and is going to make $40,000 a year straight out of college. I on the other hand am great at jeopardy. If anyone knows any cool military sites please email me and tell me about them.

By the way the French Foreign Legion's most revered battle occured in 1861 at the Mexican town of Camerone. A few hundred Legionaires were surrounded by several thousand Mexicans. During the day long battle the Legionaire's were almost totally wiped out. But in the process they inflicted horrendous casualties on the Mexicans. When only a few of them were left, and they each had one shot left in their muskets, they fixed bayonets and charged. Those who survived the suicidal charge were taken before the Mexican general who declared "My God! These are not men they're devils!" (Leave it to the French to commemorate a battle they lost.)

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