ESB-Kosaken Afzælt

ESB-Kosaken Afzælt
Active:	1672 AN – present
Allegiance:	ESB Group
Personnel:	10,196
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.

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.

Order of Battle

Unit	Commander	Establishment	Garrison
Headquarters Echelon
ESB Command & Control Regiment “Frederik Anders”	Frederik Anders	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
1st Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
1st (Iedźak°'ehe Łaqehe) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Abner Goltz	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Chur Fjord, Chur (Whales)
2nd (Mishalanski) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Warinhari Pfeiffer	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	West Cove, Chur (Whales)
3rd (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Rüdiger Geissler	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	East Cove, Chur (Whales)
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment K°ešḥeble	Tryggvi Hafner	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 artillerymen	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
2nd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
4th (Labeśx°e) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Gerlach Papp	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Grand Fjord, Chur (Whales)
5th (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Norbert Rothbauer	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	ESB Armaments Plant, Luix-Satyria (New Natopia)
6th (Plyžlaq) Cossack Cavalry Regiment	Hugo Junge	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 cossacks	Weeping Bay, Chur (Whales)
Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment Ḥek°yryne	Daryush Khoroushi	42 officers 162 NCOs 1,080 artillerymen	Wrecker's Cape, Chur (Whales)
3rd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company
Armoured Reconnaissance Troop of the 3rd Brigade		3 officers 6 NCOs 40 scouts 4x BK-V Heszlin	Niyi Axi, Sanaman Cibola
7th Cossack Cavalry Regiment		12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
8th Cossack Cavalry Regiment		12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
9th Cossack Cavalry Regiment		12 officers 42 NCOs 280 cossacks 8x BK-V Heszlin
1st Cossack Horse Artillery (Mechanised) Regiment		10 officers 36 NCOs 240 artillerymen 40x M1701 158mm MLRS 24x BK-V Heszlin
1st Sustainment Regiment		19 officers 73 NCOs 488 pioneers 48x BK-V Heszlin
55th Regiment of the Honourable Company (Divisional Troops)
55th/1st Reconnaissance Squadron	Ehsan Bahram Karimi	3 officers 11 NCOs 76 scouts	Vaduz, Fmr. Helderbourgh (The Green)
55th/2nd (Labeśx°e) Cossack Horse Artillery Troop	Bahadur Attar	1 officers 5 NCOs 32 artillerymen	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
55th/3rd Cossack Engineer Squadron	Baraz Zjandari	4 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
55th/4th Cossack Engineer Squadron	Alvar Ahlgren	4 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers	Delfinenstrand (Whales)
55th/5th Signal Squadron	Einar Almstedt	3 officers 12 NCOs 80 pioneers	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
Force Support Echelon of the Honourable Company
ESB Depot Group	Dariush Abbasi	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Chur Fjord, Chur (Whales)
ESB Area Defence Group	Valdemar Forsberg	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Chur Cove, Chur (Whales)
ESB Inner Benacia Recruitment Detachments	Shapour Karimi	132 officers 522 NCOs 3,480 enlisted	Dolobarh, Lachdolor (UGB)