ESB-Kosaken Afzælt

ESB-Kosaken Afzælt
Active:	1672 AN – present
Allegiance:	ESB Group
Personnel:	10,196
Type:	Private military company / cavalry
Motto:	"For the spoils!"
Current Commander:	Carsten Faust
Conflicts & Deployments	Current Former Kalirion Fracture 1685 ESB-Cibola Helderbourgh Expedition

ESB-Kosaken Afzælt (Praeta: ESB-Cossack-Division), organised by the Honourable Company as a Cossack division recruited from Red Lach and Mishalanski communities in Inner Benacia and currently based in the city of Musica, situated in the Near Guttuli Special Autonomous Region of the Benacian Union.

History

Originally founded as the ESB Cuirassier Division, a dedicated force made available for hire by the Honourable Company for security work, line of communications defence, and bandit-hunting operations.

Established as a body of private contractors raised by the ESB Group on a contract from Benacia Command to support pacification operations in the Governorates of Gloomburg and Litel following their annexation by the Unified Governorates of Benacia in the year 1672. Recruited primarily from Red Lach and Mishalanski. Discharged from their contract and paid off following the Peace of Norfae in 1679.

In XIV.1679 the Cuirassier Division received a fresh commission from the Honourable Company to provide corporate security for regional operations on the continent of Cibola, a continent where two thirds of the land mass remained ungoverned and lawless following the collapse of Alexandria, where commercial opportunities opened up by the colonisation efforts of Natopia and Sanama, on the so-called Waffel Plains and Sanaman Antarctic Territory respectively had opened up new opportunities and threats.

During the southern hemisphere winter of 1685 (months VII–XI) the division spearheaded the plundering expedition into Helderbourgh following the collapse of the Franco-Batavian Empire and the end of the quarantine imposed upon territories infected by the Vanic Taint.

8.VII.1688 AN: the commission from the Cibola Command of the Raspur Pact is amended, by directive of the Deputy High Commissioner of the Raspur Pact to include garrison duties of the nearby lordship of Delfinenstrand.

20.VI.1688 AN: the Cuirassier Division received a commission from the Cibola Command of the Raspur Pact to garrison Chur, a lordship in the province of Monovia, and to continue wide ranging patrols into the green to scourge the surrounding countryside of all revenants and Jing as might prove to be so inconsiderate and incautious as to venture down into the southern half of the continent unbidden.

06.VI.1688 AN: The formation was renamed as the ESB-Cossack-Cuirassier-Division, receiving a new unit emblem and cap badge that reflected the "Cossack" heritage of the Lach and Mishalanski personnel serving with the division.

6.XIV.1693 AN: A fresh commission is received from Cibola Command to raise a further brigade (3x regiments of horse, 1x regiment of self-propelled guns, 1x armoured reconnaissance troop, and 1x independent supply train) for service in the Green on long range patrol.

In late 1704 AN the 3rd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company and its support echelons departed Sanaman Cibola to participate in a punitive expedition against the Kingdom of Naudia'Diva. A departure that fortuitously coincided with the arrival of a Sanaman revolutionary contingent to assault the positions from which they had just removed themselves.

By 1709 AN the last vestiges of the cuirassier tradition in the division had receded into forgotten memory.

In 1730 AN a festival was held at Chur to celebrate the centenary of Frederik's. Although a beneficiary of rejuvenation treatments, Frederik had nonetheless determined that it was time to relinquish command. Accordingly the festival marked a significant changeover of personnel – with Carsten Faust assuming command of the division.

Order of Battle

Unit	Commander	Establishment	Garrison
Headquarters Echelon
ESB Command & Control Regiment “Frederik Anders”	Albermale Hanley	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Engita
1st Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
1st (Iedźak°'ehe Łaqehe) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Damien Horst	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Musica
2nd (Mishalanski) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Johan Rostbeck	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks
3rd (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Hans Pfalz	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment K°ešḥeble	Ludwig Beck	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 artillerymen
2nd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
4th (Labeśx°e) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Goran Sebic	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Musica Airport
5th (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Wentworth Fairfax	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	ESB Armaments Plant, Luix-Satyria (New Natopia)
6th (Plyžlaq) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Marcus Staufen	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Glimmerloch
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment Ḥek°yryne	Dimitri Pavlov Igorovich	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 artillerymen
3rd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
Armoured Reconnaissance Troop of the 3rd Brigade	Lutein Grüber	3 officers 6 NCOs 40 scouts 4x BK-V Heszlin	Kelb
7th Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Karl Knacker	12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
8th Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Gustav Trant	12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
9th Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Frederik Mortmenson	12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
1st Cossack Horse Artillery (Mechanised) Regiment	Albert Tanner	10 officers 36 NCOs 240 artillerymen 40x M1701 158mm MLRS 24x BK-V Heszlin
1st Sustainment Regiment	Heinrich Uglow	19 officers 73 NCOs 488 pioneers 48x BK-V Heszlin
55th Regiment of the Honourable Company (Divisional Troops)
55th/1st Reconnaissance Squadron	Herman Bach	3 officers 11 NCOs 76 scouts	Fembrae
55th/2nd (Labeśx°e) Cossack Horse Artillery Troop	Konstantin Wulf	1 officers 5 NCOs 32 artillerymen
55th/3rd Cossack Engineer Squadron	Juan Alfalfa	4 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers
55th/4th Cossack Engineer Squadron	Waldemar Ludwigsson	4 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers
55th/5th Signal Squadron	Daniel Roarke	3 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers
Force Support Echelon of the Honourable Company
ESB Depot Group	Karl Lieberman	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Musica
ESB Area Defence Group	Theodore Strauss	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Musica Airport
ESB Inner Benacia Recruitment Detachments	Albert Hall	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Dolobarh, Lachdolor (UGB)