"Certainly, in such conditions there is enough to seduce those of our young officers whom Belgian neutrality condemns …"

"Whatever opinion one forms of the enterprise to which Archduke Maximilian has just devoted his life, it is not possib…"

"It is understandable that a colonial establishment organized under such conditions cannot fail to prosper. We are als…"

"This is no proof that our Belgian people are not as foolish as some think, and that there are few in Belgium who volu…"

"Almost all the Belgian officers intend to leave Mexico in November 1866, at the end of their military service. They w…"

"Thanks to the care of the Belgian military authorities, the volunteers returned to their homeland, we were able to fi…"

"The moment the remnants of the Belgian legion are going to return to their country, it is necessary to demonstrate al…"

"This glorious fight gave the Belgian volunteers a reputation for bravery and dedication that the future will only inc…"

"We have said that the catastrophic question of Mexico is only at the beginning: when eighteen hundred Belgians are th…"

"The Belgian corps is very weak: it has lost a lot of officers; fighting and disease have thinned our ranks to such an…"