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Major equipment included over 140 main battle tanks, 600 reconnaissance vehicles, over 320 armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, 298 howitzers carriers.
Hannibal encamped within striking distance of the Romans with the Trebia River between them, and placed a strong force of cavalry and infantry in concealment, near the battle zone.
In modern armoured warfare, armoured units equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles serve the historic role of both the battle cavalry, light cavalry and dragoons, and belong to the armoured branch.
Marlborough's two lines of cavalry had now moved to the front of the Duke's line of battle, with the two supporting lines of infantry behind them.
In the first days of January the 110 cavalry standards and the 128 infantry colours that were taken during the battle were borne in procession to Westminster Hall.
To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.
While early German tanks, Stuka dive-bombers and concentrated forces were used in the Polish campaign, the majority of the battle was conventional infantry and artillery based warfare and most Luftwaffe action was independent of the ground campaign.
Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
It was also the first battle in the Middle Ages in which the full value of infantry was realized.
With the rise of drilled and trained infantry, the mounted men-at-arms, now sometimes called gendarmes and often part of the standing army themselves, adopted the same role as in the Hellenistic age, that of delivering a decisive blow once the battle was already engaged, either by charging the enemy in the flank or attacking their commander-in-chief.
The greatest cavalry charge of modern history was at the 1807 battle of Eylau, when the entire 11, 000-strong French cavalry reserve, led by Maréchal Murat, launched a huge charge on and through the Russian infantry lines.
By this time, the U. S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun in 6mm Lee Navy, which they employed to defeat Spanish infantry at the battle of Cuzco Wells.
Light infantry and missile troops took part in the battle, but their role was of a lower importance.
An infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ), also known as a mechanized infantry combat vehicle ( MICV ), is a type of armoured fighting vehicle used to carry infantry into battle and provide fire support.
However it was the Franks who came to dominate Western and Central Europe after the fall of Rome, and they generally fielded armies composed of large masses of infantry, with an infantry elite, the comitatus, which often rode to battle on horseback rather than marching on foot.
So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.
In the tenth century, these boats would sometimes be tied together in battle to form a steady platform for infantry warfare.
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.

infantry and group
Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.
Marrow was in a group that were jailed for the theft of an infantry rug.
They became popular as infantry weapons during the Warring States and Qin era, when spearmen were used as especially highly-disciplined soldiers in organized group attacks.
* Dubai Defence Force-Central Military Command with over 20, 000 men in one infantry brigade group.
The best known usage of military lances was that of the full-gallop closed-ranks charge of a group of knights with underarm-couched lances, against lines of infantry, archery regiments, defensive embankments, and opposition cavalry.
The 18th Pomeranian Uhlans spotted a group of German infantry resting in a clearing in the Tuchola Forest heath near the railroad crossroads of Chojnice-Runowo Pomorskie line.
The group armies contain among them 25 infantry divisions, 28 infantry brigades, nine armoured divisions, nine armoured brigades, two artillery divisions, 19 artillery brigades, 19 antiaircraft artillery / air-defense missile brigades, and 10 army aviation ( helicopter ) regiments.
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.
Tactically, the Canadian battalion forms the core of the infantry battle group, which also includes various supporting elements such as armour, artillery, combat engineers and combat service support.
A MEB is one of the standard Marine air-ground task forces ( MAGTF ), is commanded by a brigadier general or major general, and consists of command element, a ground combat element ( usually one reinforced Marine infantry regiment ), an aviation combat element ( a reinforced Marine air group ), and a service support element ( a Marine logistics group, which includes naval construction force ( SEABEEs ) and naval medical elements ).
The group on the right charged into the flank of the Russian cavalry attacking St Hilaire's division, the other group charged into the Russian infantry in the area where Augereau's corps had made its stand.
The Corps was designed to be an independent military group containing cavalry, artillery and infantry, and capable of defending against a numerically superior foe.
A properly trained group of regular infantry soldiers was able to load and fire four rounds per minute.
Such an example would be a squadron of tanks attached to an armoured infantry battle group, together with a reconnaissance troop, artillery battery and engineering support.
Operation Anadyr () was the code name used by the Soviet Union for their Cold War ( 1962 ) secret operation of deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry in Cuba to create the army group that would be able to prevent an invasion of the island by U. S. forces.
This group of militants, known as the " Army Protector of the Law ", was composed of small groups of Hondurans, Nicaraguans, and Salvadoreans, who brought their own tools of war ; others had the support of Indians who served as infantry.
The history of Speyer began with the construction of one of these camps around 10 BC for a 500-man – strong infantry group and also intended as a base for further conquests to the east of the Rhine.
On the next morning, this battle group of now four infantry regiments attacked toward Le Muy from the town of Les Arcs, Var.
The Battle of Morgarten occurred on November 15, 1315, when a Swiss Confederation force of 1, 500 infantry archers ambushed a group of Austrian soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire near the Morgarten Pass.
In the late 1970s the Corps was reorganised as four small five battle group armoured divisions plus a roughly brigade sized infantry ' Field Force '.

infantry and will
Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.
" Addressing the faster rate at which defenders could reinforce an area than attackers could penetrate it during the First World War, Guderian wrote that " since reserve forces will now be motorized, the building up of new defensive fronts is easier than it used to be ; the chances of an offensive based on the timetable of artillery and infantry co-operation are, as a result, even slighter today than they were in the last war.
The Umayyad heavy cavalry broke the Christian infantry in their first charge, and then slaughtered them at will as they broke and ran.
The 1st Grenadiers of Sardinia regiment is currently ( 2010 ) the only infantry regiment of the Italian Army with two battalions ( 1st " Assietta " and 2nd " Cengio " Grenadiers battalions ), and it is likely that in the near future its 2nd battalion will be detached to re-activate the 2nd Sardinia Grenadiers Regiment.
The new structure of the army will see a total of three armoured regiments, each assigned to a new " armoured infantry brigade ", alongside a formation reconnaissance regiment ( renamed as " armoured cavalry ").
After September 2007, when the current reforms have been completed, the infantry will consist of a total of 18 separate regiments.
Upon completion of the CIC, the newly qualified infantry soldier will then be posted to his battalion.
The bulk of a battalion will ordinarily be homogeneous with respect to type ( e. g., an infantry battalion or a tank battalion ), although there are many exceptions.
Three to five infantry platoons will make up a typical infantry company, sometimes with a heavy weapons or support platoon in addition.
A national basic training will include provision for the basic needs of the recruit-food, shelter, clothing-and these will meet certain unit standards and unit requirements, such as ' mobility ' for an infantry unit.
They will be supported by infantry which have been ordered.
Although a player may field a mixed force of these armor, artillery, and infantry units on the table-top, in the game universe, the composition of any one regiment is fairly uniform ; that is, an infantry regiment will contain thousands of foot soldiers with only a minimal number of support vehicles and an armored regiment will consist of little else save its tanks.
A corporal in the Brazilian Army will lead the smallest fractions of units as machine gun squads, mortar and infantry squads.
By 2014, the Swedish army will have around 50 000 soldiers in either full time or part time duty, with eight mechanized infantry battalions instantly available at any time and the full force of 71 battalions ready to be deployed within one week.
If the infantry does not break, however, cavalry charges will often fail — with even trained warhorses refusing to advance into the solid ranks of opponents.
On 1 September 2007 the Staffordshire Regiment became the 3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment ( Staffords ), and will operate permanently in the armoured infantry role.
There will be five versions: a standard infantry carrier, a command car, fire support variant, mortar carrier and tank hunter.
In addition, snipers often take a fixed strategic position and camouflage themselves ( e. g. with a Ghillie suit ) while a DM will generally move with his unit and be otherwise equipped in the same way as other members of the infantry platoon.

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