In 1883 the military was reorganized in four infantry brigades ( in Sofia, Pleven, Ruse and Shumen ) and one cavalry brigade.

The Second Army, under general Nikola Ivanov, with 2 infantry divisions and 1 infantry brigade, was deployed west of the First and was assigned to capture the strong fortress of Adrianopel ( now Edirne ).

After recovering in early 1915, he was appointed to be brigade major first of 112th Brigade and then with 104th Brigade under training in Lancashire.

The brigade was stationed in County Cork carrying out counter-insurgency operations during the final stages of the Irish War of Independence.

A Dutch cavalry brigade under Averock was also called forward but soon came under pressure from Marsin's more numerous squadrons.

One brigade under General Albertone was made up of Eritrean askari led by Italian officers.

Albertone's askari brigade was the first to encounter the onrush of Ethiopians at 6: 00, near Kidane Meret, where the Ethiopians had managed to set up their mountain artillery.

Dabormida's Italian brigade had moved to support Albertone but was unable to reach him in time.

Evidence given by Martin McGuinness, a senior member of Sinn Féin and now the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, to the inquiry stated that he was second-in-command of the Derry City brigade of the Provisional IRA and was present at the march.

He was promoted to brigadier general and commanded an armed brigade and division in Turkey.

On 16 May 1968 a parachute brigade of two regiments ( each of three battalions ) was formed which eventually was to grow in size to a full division.

Each was about the size of a brigade, and commanded by ' aging generals who have had no military training, and often not much positive experience, since they were NCOs in the Belgian Force Publique.

In July 1975, according to the IISS Military Balance, the FAZ was made up of 14 infantry battalions, seven " Guard " battalions, and seven other infantry battalions variously designated as " parachute " ( or possibly " commando "; probably the units of the new parachute brigade originally formed in 1968 ).

Organisationally, the army was made up of seven brigade groups and one parachute division.

The international naval brigade force of naval marines placed itself under the senior officer present, which was Seymour.

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

This weak brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Ayub Khan ( local rank Major-General – GOC of 14th Army Division ), together with the East Pakistan Rifles which was tasked with defending East Pakistan during the Kashmir War of 1947.

It came under artillery fire from the three South African brigade groups and was forced to dig in.

At about 18: 00, the brigade HQ was overrun.

Rosselli was assassinated by a French fascist in 1937, the Italian brigade he had led took on the name the " Rosselli Brigade ".

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

At that time, the army was organised into 11 Border Defence and 4 Security Zones, one regime security brigade, 10 Tank Battalions, 10 Mechanized Infantry Battalions, 18 Infantry Battalions, 6 Commando Battalions, 22 Artillery Battalions, 4 SSM Brigade and 7 Air Defence Artillery Battalions.

The newly formed brigade did most of the Israeli special forces operations during the remaining of 1950's.

The last known unit to serve as grenadiers, and employing grenades as their weapons, was a special " Grenadier brigade " formed by the Red Army within the 4th Army during the Tikhvin defensive operation in October 1941.

Panama's first army was formed in 1903, when the commander of a brigade of the Colombian army defected to the pro-independence side during Panama's fight for independence.

The brigade formed part of the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of loyalist assassins which the Pat Finucane Centre has linked to 87 killings in the 1970s.

In the coming months, Bokassa imposed a number of new rules and regulations: men and women between the ages of 18 and 55 had to provide proof that they had jobs, or else they would be fined or imprisoned ; begging was banned ; tom-tom playing was allowed only during the nights and weekends ; and a " morality brigade " was formed in the capital to monitor bars and dance halls.

) In the fall of 1832 Branch joined a fur brigade being formed by William Wolfskill in Santa Fe.

Confederate troops under John Brown Gordon formed a bucket brigade to save the town from fire.

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.

The current brigade was formed in 2007 and it incorporates two former guards brigades ( 3rd and 5th ) as well as several other units formed during the war of independence.

Through the Engineer Restructuring Initiative, the nucleus of the brigade was formed around the 8th Engineer Battalion.

Supported by three cannons and screened by skirmishers, the brigade was formed into a column of companies.

All the other companies formed behind the first company, making the entire brigade about 40 files wide and 48 ranks deep.

The first column was formed by Hessen-Homburg's brigade, 6 battalion strong, which was directed towards the village of Grosshofen.

Receiving his orders to charge immediately, Arrighi hastily formed his squadrons and led forward Bordessoule's brigade up the slope, but once there, he found himself in the middle of enemy barricades and was, according to his own account, unable to deploy a single squadron.

On the French side, Grouchy soon brought his dragoons in support and Nostitz was forced to counter them by committing General-Major Rothkirch's brigade, formed by the 1st Erzherzog Johann and 6th Riesch Dragoons.

* It formed the first brigade of General Jean Victor Tharreau's 1st division of II Corps.

On 14 June, with their withdrawal from Villers-Bocage complete, Hinde's 22nd Armoured Brigade group formed an all round defensive position — a " brigade box "— in the Amayé-sur-Seulles – Tracy-Bocage – St-Germain area.

In a following 1958-60 reorganisation the Corps was formed into three mixed armour / infantry divisions including five brigade groups, which were in 1965 brought together into three centralised divisions.

Four regiments usually formed a brigade, although as the number of men in many regiments became greatly reduced, especially later in the war, more than four were often assigned to a brigade.

Hence, the main forces were formed in three armies for the advance towards Skopje, while a division and an independent brigade were to cooperate with the Montenegrins in the Sanjak of Novi Pazar.