Editing French Foreign Legion (section)

===Post-colonial Africa===
[[File:Legion1PW.jpg|thumb|left|The [[13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion]] parading through Roman ruins in [[Lambaesis]], Algeria (c. 1958)]]

By the mid-1960s the Legion had lost its traditional and spiritual home in [[French Algeria]] and elite units had been dissolved.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> President de Gaulle considered disbanding it altogether but, being reminded of the [[Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion|Marching Regiments]], and that the [[13th Demi-Brigade of Foreign Legion|13th Demi-Brigade]] was one of the first units to declare for him in 1940 and taking also into consideration the effective service of various [[Saharan Méharistes Companies (méharistes sahariennes)|Saharan units]] and performances of other Legions units, he chose instead to downsize the Legion from 40,000 to 8,000 men and relocate it to metropolitan France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legionofthelost.com/gallery.html |title=Gallery |publisher=Legion of the Lost |access-date=20 October 2010 |archive-date=23 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823080854/http://legionofthelost.com/gallery.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Legion units continued to be assigned to overseas service, although not in North Africa (see below).