Editing French Foreign Legion (section)

====Netherlands KNIL Army====
Though not named "Foreign Legion", the Dutch [[Royal Netherlands East Indies Army|Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indische Leger (KNIL)]], or Royal Dutch (East) Indies Army (in reference to the [[Dutch East Indies]], now [[Indonesia]]), was created in 1830, a year before the French Foreign Legion, and is therefore not an emulation but an entirely original idea and had a similar recruitment policy. It stopped being an army of foreigners around 1900 when recruitment was restricted to Dutch citizens and to the indigenous peoples of the Dutch East Indies. The KNIL was finally disbanded on 26 July 1950, seven months after the Netherlands formally recognised Indonesia as a sovereign state, and almost five years after Indonesia declared its independence.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Book 99)|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iHp0DwAAQBAJ|publisher = Taylor & Francis|date = 2014|isbn = 9781317663157|first = Dirk|last = Moses}}</ref>