Phillip's plan was for a squadron of three ships of the line and a frigate to mount a raid on Buenos Aires and Monte Video, then to proceed to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico to maraud, and ultimately to cross the Pacific to join the British Navy's East India squadron for an attack on Manila.

After acquiring an initial fleet of utility and transport aircraft, the squadron was attached to an interarmy support regiment.

Surrounded by a squadron of Hessian troops, Tallard surrendered to Lieutenant-Colonel de Boinenburg, the Prince of Hesse-Kassel's aide-de-camp, and was sent under escort to Marlborough.

" 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.

This squadron, consisting of three ships of the line and three frigates, was entrusted to Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson.

Returning to the fleet at the Tagus in late April 1798, he was ordered to collect the squadron stationed at Gibraltar and sail for the Ligurian Sea.

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

The remainder of the squadron was scattered ; the ships of the line sheltered at San Pietro Island off Sardinia, while the frigates were blown to the west and failed to return.

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.

This demonstration not only was the last JATO performance of the squadron, but also the final JATO profile of the entire US Marine Corps.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

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

The squadron was commanded by Captain Christopher Cole, with Captain Charles Foote on the Piedmontaise and Captain Richard Kenah aboard the Barracouta.

The Soviet Army retained horse cavalry divisions until 1955, and even at the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was an independent horse mounted cavalry squadron in Kyrgyzstan.

This equipment was used during the Persian Gulf War, when the squadron transported equipment to Saudi Arabia.

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 ".

Beatty was posted to the China squadron and only returned to England after being wounded at the siege of Tsientsin, eighteen months later in August 1900.

On his eventual arrival, he set about drafting standing orders regarding how the squadron was to operate.

This base was officially known as 4th squadron of the 40th wing of the Red Army.

The squadron did not start to return towards Pola until about an hour after the order had been given by Iachino, officially due to communication problems, while Vittorio Veneto and the other ships continued to Taranto.

It was at this time that, with the USA still officially neutral ( until unrestricted submarine warfare moved public opinion to pressure President Wilson to declare war against Germany ), a squadron of mostly American volunteers flew on behalf of the French, the Lafayette Escadrille ( first designated N. 124 and later SPA. 124 ), under the command of Captain Georges Thenault.

This squadron officially moved to RAF Aldergrove on 4 August 2008 from RAF Odiham and operated three Defender AL1s, serial numbers ZG995, ZG996 and ZG998, two Defender AL2s ( ZG997 and ZH001 ), and a Defender T3 training variant ( ZH004 ).

A formal ceremony at RAF Brüggen on June 15, 2001 officially ended a continuous RAF presence in Germany since the Second World War ; on July 17 the squadron completed its move to RAF Marham and all of the remaining Tornados had left by September 4, 2001.

The squadron was officially reformed on the 1st July 2011.

The squadron officially reformed as a Typhoon squadron on 6 September 2010.

The 34 BS ' B-1Bs began moving to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, in June and the squadron officially moved in September.

By the summer of 1973 there were rumors of squadron reductions, and deactivation of the squadron was announced officially in March 1974 as a result of the continual downsizing since the 1958 moratorium.

Nor, so far as it is known, has 29 squadron ever been officially referred to as " XXX squadron "-or as " XXIX squadron " for that matter.

836 Naval Air Squadron officially formed for the first time at Palisadoes, Jamaica in March 1942 as a torpedo bomber reconnaissance squadron flying the Fairey Swordfish.

835 Naval Air Squadron officially forming that day at Palisadoes ( HMS Buzzard ), Jamaica as a torpedo-bomber / reconnaissance Fairey Swordfish squadron.

On 30 August 1940, the squadron scored its first victory while still officially non-operational, when a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 of 4 ./ ZG 76 ( initially incorrectly recorded as a Dornier Do 17 ) was shot down by F / O Ludwik Paszkiewicz during a training flight.

The squadron officially reformed on 17 July 2001 at RAF Benson, the first time in its recent history that the squadron had been stationed in the UK.

Though he did train with the instructor pilots of the department within fighter squadron VF-121 " Pacemakers " that later became the US Navy's Fighter Weapon School, he was not a graduate of TOPGUN, nor was he selected, at least officially, to participate in actual TOPGUN training.

The squadron ceased to exist on 13 December 2001, when the RNZAF Air Combat Force, comprising Nos 2, 14, and 75 Squadrons, was officially disbanded.

They were allocated the " 75 " squadron number and the squadron officially became No. 75 ( New Zealand ) Squadron, RAF.

24 years later, USAF HG officially became a separate squadron in 1972 and has remained at Bolling AFB to this day.

The 456th SAW was placed on operational status upon activation with the 31st BS being redesignated as the 744th Bombardment Squadron, the wing's former World War II bomb squadron.

In July 1965 the wing was redesignated the 456th Bombardment Wing, Heavy with the inactivation of the Titan I Missile squadron but continued to fly the B-52 and KC-135.

In 1959 Malmstrom was performing air-traffic-control duties for the FAA, and joined the SAGE system on 1 March 1961, the squadron being redesignated as the 801st Radar Squadron ( SAGE ).

An additional squadron, the 28th, was activated on 1 September 1922 at Nichols Field, and the group, now at Clark Field, was redesignated the 4th Composite Group on 2 December 1922.

The fifth squadron was redesignated as an operations support squadron, but fulfilled essentially

The squadron was later reconstituted and redesignated the 30th Bomb Squadron of the 19th Bomb Group, and saw combat in the Pacific theater during World War II as both a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress squadron, and in the Korean War flying the B-29.

In 1955, VP-29 returned from deployment to the Pacific and was redesignated as Heavy Attack Squadron TWO ( VAH-2 ), the first heavy attack squadron on the West Coast, the " heavy " designation reflecting its concentration on nuclear weapons delivery.

In October 1970, Heavy Attack Squadron 10 ( VAH-10 ) was redesignated Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129 ( VAQ-129 ), the Navy ’ s first EA-6B squadron and the sole fleet replacement squadron for Navy and Marine Prowler crews.

In August 1919 Portal was appointed to a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force in the rank of major ( shortly afterwards redesignated as a squadron leader ).

* February 8-The Lafayette Escadrille, the American volunteer squadron serving in the French Army, is transferred to the United States Army and redesignated the 103rd Aero Squadron.

The squadron was redesignated as Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 776 ( HMM-776 ) in 1962 and changed aircraft to the CH-34D.

In 1972, the squadron was redesignated for the last time to Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 776 ( HML-776 ) and changed aircraft to the UH-1E which was eventually upgraded to the UH-1N.

In 1976 the 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, also based at Keesler, was redesignated the 815th Weather Squadron " Storm Trackers " and served as an associate squadron to the 53d until 1987, when the 815th reverted to a tactical airlift unit.

After joining, the squadron was redesignated as the 858th Radar Squadron ( SAGE ) on 1 December 1962.

The squadron was inactivated on 1 October 1970 and redesignated as the 4424th Combat Crew Training Squadron.

The squadron was redesignated as the 727 AMS on 15 March 2001.

In 1879, a second regiment, the 6th Regiment of Cavalry ( Hussars ), which incorporated No. 1 Troop, detached to become an independent squadron, which in 1898 was redesignated the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars.

Shortly after setting up camp and starting flight operations, the squadron was redesignated VF-10M on July 1, 1927, the first of many changes in designation caused by the reorganization of naval aviation assets.

Another change in designation occurred while the squadron was still in China, when on July 1, 1928, the squadron was redesignated VF-6M.

In November 1940, it was sent to Greece to operate its Blenheims in both the bomber and fighter roles, but in March 1941 the squadron was redesignated a fighter unit.