* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.

The Batallón de San Patricio, a battalion of U. S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history.

Parsons says it is possible that the speech was only broadcast on the radio in the Nakuru area where Lanet Barracks, home of the battalion, was located.

The core of the Lithuanian Land Force structure is the Iron Wolf Mechanised Infantry Brigade ( MIB " Iron Wolf ") consisting of two mechanized infantry battalions ( King Mindaugas and Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas battalions ), two motorized infantry battalions ( Grand Duchess Birutė and Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis battalions ), artillery battalion and Lithuanian Duke Vaidotas Forward support battalion.

Organizationally, says Sega Sissoko, is the only battalion of Ségou and includes units scattered across the territory.

It is organised into two tank battalions ( T-55, T-54 and T-34 / 85, tanks, including possibly a light armoured battalion of PT-76's and Type 62 light tanks ), four infantry battalions, one Special Forces battalion, one airborne battalion ( possibly the 33rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, Djikoroni, in Bamako ), two artillery battalions, one engineer battalion ( 34th ), 2 AD artillery batteries, and one SAM battery.

The Army is 15, 000 strong, according to the IISS, with six military regions, two camel corps battalions, one battalion of T-54 / 55 battle tanks, one armoured reconnaissance squadron, eight garrison infantry battalions, seven motorised infantry battalions, one commando / para battalion, 3 artillery battalions, 4 air defence batteries, one engineer company, and one guard battalion.

Some doubt has been cast on this final battle, as the Hyoho senshi denki has Musashi saying he is " no lord's vassal " and refusing to fight with his father ( in Lord Ukita's battalion ) in the battle.

The engineer battalion is used for civic action with construction and reticulation capabilities, while the two infantry battalions also constructs roads, bridges and other infrastructure in regions where commercial companies are unwilling to work for security reasons.

Full mobilization is assumed to take one year ( although no mobilization readiness exists ), and the formations assumed are of battalion level size.

This is the regular infantry battalion.

2nd Battalion ( Infantry ), Trinidad and Tobago Regiment: This is also a regular infantry battalion.

The army is organized into eight armored brigades, 16 infantry brigades, six mechanized brigades, two airborne commando brigades, one surface-to-surface missile brigade, three artillery brigades, one central guard force, one Special Forces brigade, and six air defense brigades, which consist of four antiaircraft artillery battalions and one surface-to-air missile battalion.

* April 29 – Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.

The IISS estimated in 2011-12 that Burkina Faso had 6, 400 personnel in the Armee de Terre in three military regions, one tank battalion ( two tank platoons ), five infantry regiments that may be understrength, and an airborne regiment.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

They were organised into a battalion commanded by Major Alfredo Serranti that defended Culqualber ( Ethiopia ) for three months until this military unit was destroyed by the Allies.

At its height, the Song military had one million soldiers divided into platoons of 50 troops, companies made of two platoons, and one battalion composed of 500 soldiers.

* three military police battalion

* One military police battalion

On 1 January 1962, Bokassa left the French Army and joined the military forces of the CAR with the rank of battalion commandant.

A battalion is generally the smallest military unit capable of independent operations ( i. e., not attached to a higher command ), although many armies have smaller units that are self-sustaining.

A battalion group is a military unit based around a battalion.

A typical battalion group consists of an infantry or armoured battalion with sub-units detached from other military units acting under the direct command of the battalion commander.

Under modern military doctrine battalion groups are being replaced by battlegroups.

A rule of thumb in American military doctrine is that each unit should keep track of enemy subunits two echelons below its own: that is, a division should monitor enemy units confronting it down to the battalion, a brigade should monitor enemy units down to companies, and a battalion should monitor enemy forces down to platoons.

After a two-year military service at a Panzergrenadier battalion in Ellwangen, he left the Bundeswehr as " Leutnant der Reserve " ( reserve officer ).

On 9 August 1960, Captain Kong Le and his Special Forces-trained Neutralist paratroop battalion were able to seize control of the administrative capital of Vientiane in a virtually bloodless coup, while Prime Minister Tiao Samsanith, government officials, and military leaders met in the royal capital, Luang Prabang.

He was assigned to the Joinville battalion, as were all talented French sportspeople fulfilling their military obligations.

The Bulgarian unit that entered Thessaloniki turned out to be a 48, 000-strong division instead of the battalion, something which caused concern among the Greeks, who viewed it as a Bulgarian attempt to establish a condominium over the city.

The basic unit was a battalion of 642 men.

The experimental horse platoon was so successful that its entire parent battalion was transformed from an armored reconnaissance unit to a three squadron horse battalion known as the " Dragoons of Angola ".

Even the Jäger battalion was divided in the same way that the rest of the country was: 450 mostly socialist soldiers of the unit remained stationed in Germany as they could have chosen the Red side in the conflict.

The PNGDF Land Element includes two infantry battalions, an engineer battalion, a signal squadron, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) unit, and a preventive medicine platoon.

* Slovenia's 10th battalion for international cooperation, established in 1996 as its primary " out-of-country " operation unit, will soon be upgraded to a NATO-interoperable rapid reaction peacekeeping force ;

At the time, this was a relatively quiet sector of the front, but the first battalion was struck by a German heavy artillery bombardment on the afternoon of 12 March 1918 that buried 21 men of the unit — of which 14 remained entombed.

This unit consisted of SD and Sipo, the third company of the Special Duties Waffen-SS battalion, and a platoon of the 9th Police Battalion.

By 1954, he was a major and led a battalion that attacked a Việt Minh unit, forcing the communists to withdraw from Phan Rang.

Ghatak Force is a battalion-level special unit in the Indian Army, with one in each battalion.

Apparatus include 1 battalion chief, 2 engine companies, 2 ladder companies, 1 truck company, 1 rescue unit, 3 brush trucks, 1 water tanker and 1 air and light unit.

In the United States Army, a battalion is a unit composed of a headquarters and two or more batteries, companies or troops.

United States Marine Corps infantry battalions are task organized into battalion landing teams ( BLTs ) as the ground combat element ( GCE ) of a Marine expeditionary unit ( MEU ).

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

Three quarters of the unit were missing when it returned to England, including two of the three brigade commanders, eight of the nine battalion commanders and 26 of the 30 infantry company commanders.

Only one WO1 / CWO holds the appointment of RSM in a regiment or battalion, making him the senior warrant officer ; in a unit with more than one WO1, the RSM is considered to be " first amongst equals ".

During exercises and operations, the role of the RSM is to organize the battalion for movement, and to assist the unit S1 ( Manpower Officer ) in manpower administration.