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.

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

He was involved with the development of motorised infantry working with armoured forces, which led to the concept of the motor battalion.

After the Cold War, the 1st battalion was dispatched to the first Gulf War where it was involved in prisoner of war handling and other roles.

In May 1915 the battalion was involved in fighting at Railway Wood near Ypres.

In the French news, the Indochina War was presented as a direct continuation of the Korean War where France had fought as a UN French battalion then incorporated in a U. S. unit, which was later involved in the terrible Battle of Mang Yang Pass of June and July 1954.

This involved Givati forces reinforced by Golani Brigade soldiers with IDF Achzarit HAPCs, a battalion of officers from the class-commanders school and several IDF Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozers.

1860 – four infantry battalions, four batteries of garrison artillery ; July, 1861 reinforcement – three infantry battalions, one field artillery battery, and personnel to bring the existing garrisons ' units to strength ; " Trent affair " reinforcement – eight infantry battalions, five batteries of field artillery, eight batteries of garrison artillery, three companies of engineers, various service and support elements, and the headquarters staff ; the grand total in British North America by New Year's amounted to 14 infantry battalions ( elements of one battalion and part of the headquarters staff were unable to land in Nova Scotia because of the North Atlantic winter ; the staff officers involved had to land in Boston and travel overland to Montreal via the U. S .); six batteries of field artillery ; 12 of garrison artillery ; and three of engineers, plus the various headquarters, service, and support elements.

In Vietnam in March 1970, Schwarzkopf was involved in rescuing men of his battalion from a minefield.

The battalion was subsequently involved in the defeat of Arab forces at Kirbekan.

The battalion was mostly involved in minor skirmishes with the Boers, but suffered casualties due to disease and poor nutrition.

The 2nd battalion moved to Cork in 1919, and was involved in the Irish War of Independence.

In April 1945 the battalion was involved in the breakout from the Nijmegen salient and by 7 May it was in Utrecht disarming three German divisions, the day before the war in the European theatre was finished.

The battalion was involved in the Battle of Kohima in fierce fighting with the Japanese.

In 1830 the battalion was involved in internal security duties in Van Diemen's Land, in order to prevent further incidents by the native Aborigines there.

The 2nd battalion, however, had a more active time ; based in India, it was involved in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, where it fought at the Battle of Nagpore ( 1817 ) and Battle of Mahidpur ( 1818 ), and in the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-26.

By summer 1937 some 1, 200 Canadians were involved in the conflict and a separate battalion was formed for them in early May.

2nd battalion 1st Regiment was involved in combat operations at Wola-Gulowska, against a Polish artillery Regiment, it was here that the first Fallschirmjaeger combat death was recorded.

After briefly commanding the 3rd battalion of his regiment, Masters subsequently became GSO1 ( the Chief of Staff ) of Indian 19th Infantry Division, which was heavily involved in the later stages of the Burma Campaign, until the end of the war.

Men from the village were involved in two local Auxiliary Units, Wenham and Capel, part of the 202nd battalion of the Home Guard.

In 1848, he commanded a guard battalion during the disturbances in Berlin, but was not involved.

In June, the battalion was involved in Operation Battleaxe, a British / Commonwealth offensive push to relieve the besieged city of Tobruk, though the offensive saw stiff resistance from the enemy forces, and the Allies eventually had to withdraw in the face of numerically superior, and better armed Afrika Korps.

The battalion saw further service taking part in the steady Allied advance, including at the Venlo Pocket in the Low Countries and in 1945, the Rhineland, where the battalion was involved in a variety of engagements.

During its time in Egypt, the battalion performed a number of tasks, including the usual patrolling and guarding, which at times, tended to be monotonous and uneventful, though at others, such duties sometimes involved incidents which included coming under attack from Egyptians, including by snipers as well as rioting taking place.