Only hours later, the 5th battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from the 51st Highland Division liberated Heusden.

The regiment now consists of a regular battalion ( 5 SCOTS ), an affiliated company of the Territorial Army battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers ( 7 SCOTS ) and an Army Cadet Force battalion.

A battalion of the Japanese 51st Regiment ( which was commanded by Colonel Kimio Omoto ) seized the vital Nungshigum Ridge, which overlooked the main airstrip at Imphal.

He served with the 1 / 6th ( Morayshire ) Bn, the Seaforth Highlanders, 51st Highland Division and joined the battalion at Elgin in July 1914.

The 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment ( 51 FNQR ) is a light infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

In 1927, the battalion was regimented as 51st Battalion, Field of Mars Regiment.

As a result, the 51st Battalion's numbers fell, however, in 1940 the national service scheme was reintroduced in effort to improve the nation's overall level of military preparedness and the battalion, its numbers swelled by an intake of conscripted soldiers, undertook a period of continuous training at Miowera, near Bowen.

The new 31st / 51st Battalion was deployed to New Guinea with the 11th Brigade, where it formed part of Merauke Force and was subsequently designated as an AIF battalion in 1944.

The 51st Highland Volunteers was a regiment and is now a battalion in the British Army's Territorial Army ( TA ) or reserve force in the Scottish Highlands, forming the 7th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, also known as 7 SCOTS.

The regiment was re-formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of all three of the battalions, 7 / 8 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 3 The Highlanders, and 3 Black Watch into a single battalion, 51st Highland Regiment ( 51 HIGHLAND ), in consequence of the reforms of the Territorial Army in the Strategic Defence Review.

At the time the battalion was composed of four companies ; the 18th, 43rd, 51st and 55th.

During its service, the battalion made a grueling march nearly 2, 000 miles long from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego.

The battalion marched 1, 400 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, California.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Aagesen was educated for the law at Christiania ( now Oslo ) and Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion.

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.

" It was a hard-fought contest, leading Prince Eugene to observe – " I have not a squadron or battalion which did not charge four times at least.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

In the event, due to the urgently needed reinforcements in the Thracian front, Bulgarian Headquarters was soon forced to remove its troops from the city ( while the Greeks agreed by mutual treaty to remove their units based in Serres ) and transport them to Dedeağaç ( modern Alexandroupolis ), but still it left behind a battalion that started fortifying its positions.

The Second Military Region was located in Daloa and comprised one infantry battalion.

The Third Military Region was headquartered in Bouaké and was home to an artillery, an infantry, and an engineer battalion.

Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

In addition to these units, a tank battalion was reported to have formed by 1979.

Although his administrative abilities had been noticed, on the eve of the U. S. entry into World War II he had never held an active command above a battalion and was far from being considered by many as a potential commander of major operations.

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 ".

A battalion, led by commandant Faurax, was formed from two companies of the First Foreign Regiment and two others from the second regiment.

In 1895, a battalion, formed by the First and Second Foreign Regiments, was sent to the Kingdom of Madagascar, as part of an expeditionary force whose mission was to conquer the island.

A battalion of two companies from the 2nd Foreign Regiment was created in early 1894 to pacify the Niger.

During World War I and the rise of Germanism, the ( Svecomans ) began covert collaboration with Imperial Germany, and from 1915 – 1917 a " Jäger " ( Jääkärit ) battalion consisting of 1, 900 Finnish volunteers was trained in Germany.

This battalion was trained in Germany during 1915-1917, and battle-hardened on the Eastern Front.

The battalion was finally brought back to Finland and disbanded in 1943.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

The Garden City Park Fire Department is known for once having one of the best racing teams in New York State, the Mustangs are 11 time champions of the 1st battalion and have recently brought back the racing team in an effort to bring back the glory to its department and its town.

As the French line began crumbling Jourdan brought forward his one remaining reserve battalion, hoping to use it as an anchor to lead an attack.

Later, supported by two artillery pieces they brought with them, advanced a battalion to the flat Murchante to address the harassing Dijéon cavalry on this side.

He immediately galloped to the main battalion and brought reinforcements.

While this was going on, the right detachment under Keyes, having found itself on the wrong side of the river, made contact with an Australian battalion to the south which brought up a boat with which they could make a crossing.

The Australians, initially at brigade strength, managed to capture the main Turkish trench line from the battalion that was defending the position in the first few hours of the fighting ; however, the fighting continued for the next three days as the Turks brought up reinforcements and launched numerous counterattacks in an attempt to recapture the ground they had lost.

During preparations for movement to the Falklands, the Marine battalion was brought up to full strength of a light brigade with a company of the amphibious engineer company and a battery of the 1st Marine Artillery Regiment.

It was decided next that the two companies of Sikhs and Gurkhas that had been sent to Landi Kotal needed to be reinforced, however, the mobilisation process had only just begun and at that stage there was only one battalion available for this so on 7 May the 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry were brought up clandestinely through the Khyber Pass aboard a convoy of 37 lorries.

To aid the garrison in the construction of the defenses, the 1, 247 men of the 111th Pioneers, similar to the Seabees of the U. S. Navy, along with the 970 men of the Fourth Fleet's construction battalion were brought in.

The battalion, designated 1st Battalion RNZIR by that time, was brought home in 1989.

Towards evening, his company being dangerously weakened, he went back to his battalion headquarters, represented the situation to his Commanding Officer, and brought up reinforcements, passing backwards and forwards over ground swept by heavy fire.

War brought first-class cricket to an end in 1939, and Yardley joined the first battalion of the Green Howards, along with his Yorkshire team-mate Hedley Verity.

In 1977 the battalion were brought back to the United Kingdom and posted to Aldershot, also during this period they spent time in Belize and Hong Kong as well as on exercise in Germany and a further tour in Northern Ireland.

The following day brought word to CCA of further dire German counter-attacks at Dieulouard, at which point they released a reinforcing infantry battalion as well as a tank company to stabilize the situation.

She brought both to the airport, but her battalion had already left, along with her airplane.

On July 1, 1967, the battalion was split into two and both brought up to strength as the 9th and the 10th Para Commando Battalions.

Guard and patrol duty in the border areas brought the battalion near the brutality of war and served to harden the men of the unit.

Lieutenant-Colonel Wellington Wallace was brought out of retirement to raise another Peel battalion, the 234th, authorized in April 1916.