page_title: Mounted Companies (Compagnies montées de la Légion étrangère)
hierarchical_section_title: Mounted Companies (Compagnies montées de la Légion étrangère)
caption_attribution_description: insigne de la compagnie montée du 2°REI
context_page_description: While the infantry was very efficient in the Aurès, in Kabylie and all the mountainous regions, they were slow when the terrain became flat in the desert. Accordingly, at the end of the 19th century, the French Foreign Legion, and more particularly the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2ᵉ RE set on foot the mounted companies in order to allow these infantry contingents to make movement over long distances while avoiding fatigue.
  Horses could not move for long distances in the desert, without water supply, accordingly, others means of displacement were required to be imagined.
context_section_description: While the infantry was very efficient in the Aurès (French: Aurès), in Kabylie (French: Kabylie) and all the mountainous regions, they were slow when the terrain became flat in the desert. Accordingly, at the end of the 19th century, the French Foreign Legion, and more particularly the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2ᵉ RE set on foot the mounted companies (French: compagnies montées) in order to allow these infantry contingents to make movement over long distances while avoiding fatigue.   
  Horses could not move for long distances in the desert, without water supply, accordingly, others means of displacement were required to be imagined.
caption: fanion of the mounted company of the 2e REI.
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