Black Legion
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Black Legion may refer to:
- Black Army of HungaryBlack Army of HungaryThe Black Army , "Black Legion" or "Regiment"—possibly named after their black armor panoply, see below) is, in historiography, the common name given to the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary...
, an army of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century - Légion Noire, an army of French criminals raised for the last invasion of Britain in 1797
- Black BrunswickersBlack BrunswickersThe Black Brunswickers were a volunteer corps raised by German-born Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. The Duke was a harsh opponent of Napoleon Bonaparte's occupation of his native Germany...
, an army raised by Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg against Napoleon I - Black Legion (political movement)Black Legion (political movement)The Black Legion was an organization that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated in the United States in the 1930s. The organization was founded by William Shepard in east central Ohio...
, a Ku Klux Klan splinter group in the Midwestern United States - Black Legion (film)Black Legion (film)Black Legion is a 1937 melodrama film, directed by Archie Mayo, with a script by Abem Finkel and William Wister Haines based on an original story by producer Robert Lord. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan and is a fictionalized story about the...
, a 1937 film about the political movement - Black Legion (military unit), Croatian military unit active during World War II in Yugoslavia
- The paramilitary unit of the Republic of New AfrikaRepublic of New AfrikaThe Republic of New Afrika , was a social movement that proposed three objectives. First, the creation of an independent African-American-majority country situated in the southeastern United States. A similar claim is made for all the black-majority counties and cities throughout the United States...
- Les Legions NoiresLes Legions NoiresLes Légions Noires is a group of French underground black metal musicians and their bands, centered mostly around the city of Brest, in Britanny...
, a French Black Metal movement - The Black Legion, a legion of Chaos Space MarinesChaos Space MarinesIn the table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, the Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Marines, are Space Marines who serve the Chaos Gods. They are also referred to as the Traitor Legions, primarily in background material written from the perspective of the Imperium.-History:The background shown in both...
in the Warhammer 40,000 universe - Black Legion. a highly successful small/medium gang alliance in EVE-Online, who specialize in counter operative hit and run Guerrilla WarfareGuerrilla warfareGuerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare and refers to conflicts in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and...
type tactics.