The Czechoslovak Legion (Československé legie in Czech and Československé légie in Slovak) were volunteer armed forces composed predominantly of Czechs with a small number of Slovaks (approximately 8 percent)[1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I. Their goal was to win the support of the Allied Powers for the independence of Bohemia and Moravia from the Austrian Empire and of Slovak territories from the Kingdom of Hungary, which were then part of the Austro-Hungarian E