2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment

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
Country	France
Allegiance	French Foreign Legion
Branch	French Army
Type	Foreign 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
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)

Pericula Ludus

The Regiment

The Regimental Colors

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

The 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment (2^e R.E.C) was created on July 1939 on the substance of the squadron groups of Morocco issued from the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment 1er REC.

With the debut of World War II, the 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment was stationed in Morocco and part of its elements were quickly attached to the 97th Reconnaissance Group of the Infantry Division, () (French: Groupement de reconnaissance divisionnaire 97 (GRD97)) which engaged in combat on the metropolitan terrain during the German spring offensive of 1940, and which the divisionary group commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Boyer de Latour was killed leading at the bois de Noroy the 9th of July of the same year. Following the armistice, the dissolution of the 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment, 2^e R.E.C was pronounced on November 15, 1940 and the regimental colors of the 2ème R.E.C were entrusted to the honor guard of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment.

The 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment was officially dissolved on June 1, 1946 at Sidi Bel Abbès, however, units forming the 2^e R.E.C were recreated in November of the same year. Taking garrison at Oujda, where the regiment would remain until 1956; the regiment had for mission to instruct and train the reinforcements destined for the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment 1er REC making way to the Far East.