Polish Legions (Legiony Polskie) may refer to, in chronological order:
- 5th Rifle Division (Poland) or Siberian Division
- 58th New York Infantry, a.k.a. the Polish Legion, commanded in the U.S. Civil War by Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
- Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848
- Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division
- Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division
- Polish 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment
- Polish 3rd Legions Infantry Division
- Polish Legions (Napoleonic period), created by Henryk Dąbrowski during the Napoleonic Wars
- Polish Legion in Finland
- Polish Legion in Turkey, formed around 1770s, as part of the Confederation of Bar
- Polish Legions in World War I
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“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.”
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