ESB-Kosaken Afzælt

ESB-Kosaken Afzælt
Active:	1672 AN – present
Allegiance:	ESB Group
Personnel:	10,200
Type:	Private military company / cavalry
Nickname:
Current Commander:	Frederik Anders
Conflicts & Deployments	Current Former Kalirion Fracture 1685 ESB-Cibola Helderbourgh Expedition

ESB-Kosaken Afzælt (Praeta: ESB-Cossack-Cuirassier-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 Lordship of Chur, situated in southern Cibola.

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.

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.

Order of Battle

Unit	Commander	Establishment
Headquarters Echelon
ESB Command & Control Regiment “Frederik Anders”	Frederik Anders
1st Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
1st (Iedźak°'ehe Łaqehe) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Abner Goltz
2nd (Mishalanski) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Warinhari Pfeiffer
3rd (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Rüdiger Geissler
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment K°ešḥeble	Tryggvi Hafner
2nd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
4th (Labeśx°e) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Gerlach Papp
5th (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Norbert Rothbauer
6th (Plyžlaq) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Hugo Junge
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment Ḥek°yryne	Daryush Khoroushi
Divisional Troops
55th Reconnaissance Squadron	Lors Bakker
55th (Labeśx°e) Cossack Horse Artillery Troop	Bahadur Attar
1st Cossack Engineer Squadron	Baraz Zjandari
55th Cossack Engineer Squadron	Alvar Ahlgren
1st Signal Squadron	Einar Almstedt
Force Support Echelon of the Honourable Company
ESB Depot Group	Dariush Abbasi
ESB Area Defence Group	Valdemar Forsberg
ESB Inner Benacia Recruitment Detachments	Shapour Karimi