On 7 September 1950, Bokassa headed to Indochina as the transmissions expert for the battalion of Saigon-Cholon.

Instead Dobie decided to abandon his plan and help Frost at the bridge and the battalion headed south into Oosterbeek overnight.

Fearing an attack on the southern end of the road bridge or the Nijmegen road, a battalion of the 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland, Machine Gun Battalion 47 and other Kampfgruppes headed across the river overnight.

On 21 November, the battalion entrained for Fremantle, boarding troopships headed for Melbourne ; it was there that the four battalions combined to form the 4th Brigade under the command of Colonel John Monash.

Knoxville was also home to Joanna Troutman, a young girl who sewed a single star on a white banner to give to a battalion of Georgia troops headed west to assist Texas citizens in their fight for independence.

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.

The " title " of commodore continues to be used in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for those senior captains in command of organizations consisting of groups of ships or submarines organized into squadrons ; air wings or air groups of multiple aviation squadrons other than carrier air wings ( the latter whose commanders still use the title " CAG "); explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ), mine warfare and special warfare ( SEAL ) groups ; and construction battalion ( SeaBee ) regiments.

The zone headquarters also doubled as battalion headquarters, and acted as a supervisory element for elements of company and platoon size assigned to each of the country's twenty-nine administrative regions.

The army's organisation consists of two armoured brigades, four infantry brigades, one engineer brigade, one armoured reconnaissance battalion ( 76th ), three artillery battalions, three engineer battalions, one independent air cavalry battalion with 35 armed helicopters ( Embakasi ), five infantry battalions, one parachute battalion and one ranger battalion for low-intensity warfare.

A 7th battalion was eventually raised as a rifle battalion specifically for service in the American War of 1812.

Namibia maintained a battalion of about 800 personnel in Grand Cape Mount county for several years, for most of the period part of UNMIL Sector 2, headquartered at Tubmanburg.

In the British and Commonwealth armies, " Type A Armoured Brigades "— which were intended for independent operations or to form part of armored divisions — had a " motor infantry " battalion mounted in Bren Carriers or later in Lend-Lease halftracks.

The United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ( UNTAG )' s Kenyan infantry battalion remained in Namibia for three months after independence to assist in training the NDF and stabilize the north.

Martin Shalli and ' Ho Chi Minh ' Namholo were involved in the negotiations that allowed the Kenyan infantry battalion to remain for that period.

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.

While in the army, he became an editor and cartoonist for the battalion newspaper.

* Ranger Indoctrination Program, a U. S. Army program requirement for assignment to a Ranger battalion

* 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 ;

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 the end of the Cold War under U. S. Division Plan 86, all armored and mechanized infantry divisions included a battalion of heavy artillery that included two batteries of M110A2 8 " SP howitzers with 6 guns each for a total of 12 guns, plus one battery of nine MLRS rocket artillery.

In 1999 Benjamin Ridgley and Gail Ridgley organized a group of Northern Arapaho runners to run from Limon, Colorado to Ethete, Wyoming in memory of their ancestors who were forced to run for their lives after being attacked and pursued by Colonel Chivington and his battalion.

In 1970, the International Institute for Strategic Studies assessed the Ugandan armed forces to consist of 6, 700 personnel, constituting an Army of 6, 250 with two brigade groups, each of two battalions, plus an independent infantry battalion, with some Ferret armoured cars, and BTR-40 and BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers, plus an air arm of 450 with 12 Fouga Magister armed jet trainers, and seven MiG-15s and MiG-17s.

But Zumalacárregui, who was noted for his grave and silent disposition and his strong religious principles, disliked the disorderly life of the guerrillas, and when regular forces were organized in the north he entered the 1st battalion of Gipuzkoa as an officer.

The objective was for the beach defenses to be cleared by H + 2 hours, whereupon the assault sections were to reorganize, continuing the battle in battalion formations.

The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.

After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.

The British battalion was defeated during the Battle of Guntur, by the forces of Hyder Ali, who effectively utilized Mysorean rockets and Rocket artillery against the closely massed British forces.

The battalion was organised as three Gun Batteries, each with six 105 mm field howitzers ( British 25 pounder guns converted to 105 mm caliber ) from the former GTR Artillery Battalion, a HQ Battery and a Service Battery.

A British Army Territorial ( reserves ) battalion formed in Nottingham in 1859 was known as The Robin Hood Battalion through various reorganisations until the " Robin Hood " name finally disappeared in 1992.

In March 1954 British Troops in the Sudan consisted of one battalion stationed in Khartoum, reporting ultimately to the Governor-General.

* February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion, to fight British pirates that reportedly disembarked on the coasts of Petén ( today Belize ) and were sacking the nearby towns.

British commanders had trained on the lessons of the Crimean War, and were adept at battalion and regimental set pieces with columns manoeuvring in jungles, deserts and mountainous regions.

Lord Lampson, the British Ambassador in Egypt, backed by a battalion of British troops, marched into King Farouk's palace and ordered him to dismiss Maher and appoint the pro-British Mustafa el-Nahhas in his place.

Observing the build up of shipping off the beach, and in an attempt to contain what were regarded as minor penetrations at Omaha, a battalion was detached from the 915th regiment being deployed against the British to the east.

The Commonwealth and the United States were the most prolific users of vehicle mounted flame weapons ; the British and Canadians fielded the " Wasp " ( a Universal Carrier fitted with a flamethrower ) at infantry battalion level, beginning in mid 1944, and eventually incorporating them into infantry battalions.

A confused battle followed, where because of forested or urban terrain, visibility was low, and because the British at that time used no radios below battalion level and the telephone wires were cut, communications were poor.

On 31 May, the Germans nearly punched through at Nieuport, and the situation grew so desperate that two British battalion commanders had to personally man a Bren gun, with one Colonel firing and the other loading.

In 1940, the British Army also formed " independent companies ", later reformed as battalion sized " commandos ", thereby reviving the word.

One battalion of five hundred men, under Johnson's elder brother, James Johnson, engaged the British force of eight hundred regulars ; simultaneously, Richard Johnson, with the other, now somewhat smaller battalion, attacked the fifteen hundred Indians led by Tecumseh.

The company was led by Captain Henry Mouzon and later turned into the battalion and then formed a brigade led by Francis Marion against the British.

A British battalion in Theatre of War II had around 845 men in it, and as of 2012 a British battalion has around 650 soldiers.

The British Army infantry normally identifies its rifle companies by letter ( usually, but not always, A, B and C ) within a battalion, usually with the addition of a headquarters company and a support / heavy weapons company.