The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

Although Spartiate was outnumbered, it had been supported by the next in line Aquilon, which uniquely of the French van squadron was fighting only one opponent, Minotaur.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Antony had not observed the signal, and believing that it was mere panic and that all was lost, followed the flying squadron.

The army had three infantry battalions and an engineer battalion in 1979, as well as a light tank squadron, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery battery.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

On 5 March a German naval squadron landed in the southwestern archipelago of Finland, on the Åland Islands, which the Swedish military expedition had taken over in mid-February.

The phantom insignia on the Koenigsegg's rear window is a tribute to a squadron from the Swedish air force wing F 10 Ängelholm, which had the ghost as its emblem.

After achieving independence in 1960 the Faidem's ( Force Aerienne Islamique de Mauritanie ) was supplied equipment by France, such as C-47s and MH. 1521 Broussards, which was later replaced by the Britten-Norman BN-2A Defender between 1976 – 78 and had operated as a transport and observation squadron in the Western Sahara War.

The Daily Universal Register of 11 November 1786 had stated: " the Botany Bay scheme is laid aside, as there is a strong presumption that a squadron from Brest are now, or soon will be, in possession of the very spot we meant to occupy in New Holland ".

When General Abrams mentioned the cavalry's concerns over the new vehicle, Patton recommended that the Sheridans be combat tested by a divisional cavalry squadron and a squadron from his own regiment ; both of which had completely different missions.

In 1760 he was in command of a squadron sent to destroy the fortifications at Louisbourg, which had been captured by the British two years before.

The Russians returned again in 1720 and 1721 although the presence of a British naval squadron limited the extent of the raids ( after making peace with Sweden in 1719, the British had switched over to an anti-Russian policy in the Baltic ).

He was followed, but when the British force came in sight of him Navarro had been joined by a French squadron under Claude-Elisée de La Bruyère de Court ( December 1741 ).

In late January 1942, the squadron became operational and joined the remnants of several others that had been in Malaya, operating out of RAF Seletar and RAF Kallang.

Unaware of the size of his opponent's fleet — in the fog, Nelson had not been able to count them — Jervis's squadron immediately sailed to intercept.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine was then detached with twenty of these ships to intercept a French squadron on 29 May ( Julian calendar ), which had been thought to be passing through the English Channel, presumably to join the Dutch fleet.

Cornelis Tromp, commanding the Dutch rear, had defeated his English counterpart, but was accused by De Ruyter of being responsible for the plight of the main body of the Dutch fleet by chasing the English rear squadron as far as the English coast.

The squadron became one of the premier RFC / RAF fighter units in 1918 and by the end of the war Douglas had been awarded a Military Cross and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

During the Battle of Hoth, the Rogues had to add many " guest " members into their squadron.

Antilles often commanded the squadron when Luke had important off-flight missions.

Achates was an English galleon ( one of a squadron of six ships ) that took part in William Winter's campaign of 1580, against the Spanish who had occupied the fort at Smerwick, Ireland.

In the Battle of Solebay of the previous year the French squadron had on sight of the approaching Dutch fleet sailed in a direction opposite to that of the English fleet.

Recent Chinese media reporting confirms that the Chinese army maintains operational horse cavalry at squadron strength in the Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In one of those forays, an unusually strong squadron, under admiral Johan Zoutman and his second-in-command, rear-admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, encountered in August, 1781 a British squadron of about equal strength under admiral Hyde Parker in the Battle of Dogger Bank, which ended in a tactical draw.

Each squadron controlled 50 missiles, bringing the total wing strength to 150 Minuteman I missiles.

Although some jeeps of the reconnaissance squadron were lost on the flight over, the company formed up in good strength and moved off along Leopard route.

In April 1923 shore-based strength amounted to a solitary squadron ( Nb: possibly No. 230 Squadron RAF ).

A decree of 15 April 1806 defined the strength of the squadron as 13 officers and 147 privates.

On 1 July 1994 the four rifle regiments were merged into one, the Royal Gurkha Rifles, and the three corps regiments ( the Gurkha Military Police having been disbanded in 1965 ) were reduced to squadron strength.

In 1998 the SASR's made its first squadron strength deployment since Vietnam when 1 Squadron, with an attached New Zealand SAS troop, was deployed to Kuwait as part of the American-led Operation Desert Thunder.

In July 1971, the RLAF AC-47 squadron had been brought up to its authorized strength of 10 planes.

Admiral Golovin later faced an military tribunal for his refusal to engage the Swedish squadron of equal strength but was cleared when he pleaded to an edict from Peter the Great which stated that Russian fleet should not engage in battle unless having 3: 2 superiority or better.

Squadron strength was increased to 16 aircraft per squadron and eventually to 20.

In 1984 – 85 the squadron re-equipped with twelve Tornado GR1 aircraft and eighteen WE. 177 nuclear bombs, and although the squadron's role remained unchanged, their Tornado aircraft were each able to carry two WE. 177 bombs, and the ratio of weapons to aircraft at full strength increased to 1. 5: 1.

A second flight was formed on 10 December 1923 and a third brought the squadron up to strength on 1 June 1924.

During the early part of World War II, the squadron operated in the army co-operation role with Westland Lysanders from Palestine, but detached aircraft to the Western Desert until 1941 when Hawker Hurricanes were on strength.

In April 1921, VChK created the OSNAZ battalion which consisted of 1st Armored Car Detachment, three rifle platoons, a cavalry squadron, and various auxiliary units, with a total strength of some 1100 men.

The squadron remained behind in Abyssinia in 1942 when the rest of the South African forces moved into the Western Desert, with some Hurricanes being taken on strength in mid-1942.

Most of the type ’ s service trials were flown by the squadron and, by the end of 1950, nine Canberra B2s were held on strength.

The GGBG was the only non-numbered corps and was expanded to squadron strength in 1876.

In April 1936 the Southamptons gave way to the Saro London, which the squadron still had on strength when World War II broke out.

With a flight for each of 19 ships, plus a few spare flights for training and relief, the squadron eventually grew to a strength of 91 aircraft, certainly a Fleet Air Arm record and probably a world one.

The New Zealand Army operated a small number of Scorpions, up to squadron strength.

In 1999 it absorbed a squadron from The Queen's Own Yeomanry, bringing it to a strength of four squadrons plus the headquarters squadron.