ESB-Kosaken Afzælt
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| Active: | 1672 AN – present |
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| Allegiance: | ESB Group |
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| Personnel: | 10,196 |
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| Type: | Private military company / cavalry |
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| Current Commander: | Frederik Anders |
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| Conflicts & Deployments | Current Former |
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 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.
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.
Order of Battle
| Unit | Commander | Establishment | Garrison | |
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| ESB Command & Control Regiment “Frederik Anders” | Frederik Anders |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| 1st Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company | ||||
| 1st (Iedźak°'ehe Łaqehe) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Abner Goltz |
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Chur Fjord, Chur (Whales) | |
| 2nd (Mishalanski) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Warinhari Pfeiffer |
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West Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| 3rd (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Rüdiger Geissler |
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East Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment K°ešḥeble | Tryggvi Hafner |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| 2nd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company | ||||
| 4th (Labeśx°e) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Gerlach Papp |
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Grand Fjord, Chur (Whales) | |
| 5th (Teuycože) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Norbert Rothbauer |
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ESB Armaments Plant, Luix-Satyria (New Natopia) | |
| 6th (Plyžlaq) Cossack Cavalry Regiment | Hugo Junge |
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Weeping Bay, Chur (Whales) | |
| Cossack Horse Artillery Regiment Ḥek°yryne | Daryush Khoroushi |
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Wrecker's Cape, Chur (Whales) | |
| 3rd Cossack Brigade of the Honourable Company | ||||
| Armoured Reconnaissance Troop of the 3rd Brigade |
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Kingdom of Naudia'Diva | ||
| 7th Cossack Cavalry Regiment |
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| 8th Cossack Cavalry Regiment |
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| 9th Cossack Cavalry Regiment |
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| 1st Cossack Horse Artillery (Mechanised) Regiment |
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| 1st Sustainment Regiment |
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| 55th Regiment of the Honourable Company (Divisional Troops) | ||||
| 55th/1st Reconnaissance Squadron | Ehsan Bahram Karimi |
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Vaduz, Fmr. Helderbourgh (The Green) | |
| 55th/2nd (Labeśx°e) Cossack Horse Artillery Troop | Bahadur Attar |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| 55th/3rd Cossack Engineer Squadron | Baraz Zjandari |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| 55th/4th Cossack Engineer Squadron | Alvar Ahlgren |
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Delfinenstrand (Whales) | |
| 55th/5th Signal Squadron | Einar Almstedt |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| Force Support Echelon of the Honourable Company | ||||
| ESB Depot Group | Dariush Abbasi |
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Chur Fjord, Chur (Whales) | |
| ESB Area Defence Group | Valdemar Forsberg |
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Chur Cove, Chur (Whales) | |
| ESB Inner Benacia Recruitment Detachments | Shapour Karimi |
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Dolobarh, Lachdolor (UGB) | |
