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    The Arab Legion (Arabic: الفيلق العربي) was the police force, then regular army, of the Emirate of Transjordan, a British protectorate, in the early part...
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    served in the Arab Legion. Glubb Pasha, the commander of the Legion, organised his forces into four brigades as follows: The Arab Legion joined the war...
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    Talal received private education in Amman, later joining Transjordan's Arab Legion as second lieutenant in 1927. He then became aide to his grandfather...
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    John Bagot Glubb (category People of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War)
    British soldier, scholar, and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. During the First World...
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  • force was renamed the Arab Legion, consisting of 1,000 men. By the time Jordan became an independent state in 1946, the Arab Legion numbered some 8,000...
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    Arab Legion by King Hussein and the subsequent renaming of the Legion into the Jordanian Armed Forces on 1 March 1956. Glubb Pasha, the Arab Legion's...
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    road and its coastal route which were under pressure from the Jordanian Arab Legion, Egyptian and Palestinian forces. From the Israeli perspective, the conquest...
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    Kfar Etzion massacre (category 1948 Arab–Israeli War)
    Haganah militia defended Kfar Etzion from a combined force of the Arab Legion and local Arab men on May 13, 1948, the day before the Israeli Declaration of...
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    Operation Dani (category Battles and operations of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War)
    fighting against the IDF were the Arab Legion and Palestinian irregulars On 10 July, Glubb Pasha ordered the defending Arab Legion troops to "make arrangements...
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    The Free Arabian Legion (German: Legion Freies Arabien; Arabic: جيش بلاد العرب الحرة, romanized: Jaysh bilād al-ʿarab al-ḥurraẗ) was the collective name...
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