2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment

2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment
(2^e Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie)
2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment; (2e Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie)
	Regimental Insignia of the 2 REC
Active	July 1939 – January 1, 1946; November 1946 – January 1962
Disbanded	The Regiment; Regiment 1st dissolve, January 1, 1946; Regiment 2nd dissolve, January 1962; The Regimental Colors ; Active: entrusted to the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (1984–present)
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Cavalry
Nickname(s)	Dauphin
Motto(s)	Pericula Ludus; Dangers game - for the regiment; Danger is my Pleasure
Colors	Green & Red
Engagements	World War II; First Indochina War; Algeria War; Suez Crisis
Battle honours	Camerone 1863; AFN 1952-1962; Regimental Colors of the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte as of 1984

The 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment (French: 2^e Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie, 2^e REC) was a cavalry regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. the regiment was dissolved twice, in 1946 and 1962; the regimental colors have been entrusted to the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte since 1984.

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