Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Francisco Franco na ɗaya daga cikin shugabannin rundunar da kuma na biyu a cikin rundunar, a lokaci guda yana jagorantar rundunar 1st Legion Bandera. Rundunar ta yi yaƙi a Maroko a cikin Yaƙin Rif (zuwa 1926). Tare da "Regulares" (sojojin mulkin mallaka na Moorish), rundunar ta zama rundunar sojojin Spain ta Afirka. A watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1934 an kawo rukunin sojojin Legion da "Regulares" zuwa Spain ta Gwamnatin Jamhuriyar don taimakawa wajen kawar da tawayen ma'aikata
a yankin Asturias.