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On 3 March 1791, Congress added to the Army "The Second Regiment of Infantry" from which today's First Infantry draws its heritage. In September of that year, elements of it and the original 1st Infantry Regiment (today's 3rd United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)), with sizable militia complements, all under the command of General Arthur St. Clair, were sent to the Northwest Indian ...
25th (1st Rhenish) Infantry "von Lützow" 18 December 1813: Aachen: VIII Army Corps: 26th (1st Magdeburg) Infantry "Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau" 5 July 1813: Magdeburg: IV Army Corps: 27th (2nd Magdeburg) Infantry "Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia" 7 March 1815: Halberstadt: IV Army Corps: 28th (2nd Rhenish) Infantry "von Goeben" 5 ...
2nd Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 26th Infantry Regiment 28th Infantry Regiment 3rd Machine Gun Battalion Brig. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard Brig. Gen. Beaumont B. Buck Brig. Gen. Frank E. Bamford Brig. Gen. George C. Barnhardt Brig. Gen. Francis Marshall: 3rd Infantry Brigade: 2nd Division: October 6, 1917 9th Infantry Regiment 23rd ...
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1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, for action in combat from 13–22 September 1944 (War Department General Order No. 42, 1945) 18th Infantry Regiment, for action in combat from 8–10 October 1944 (War Department General Order No. 42, 1945)
They arrived in England on 14 October 1914 with a strength of 45 officers and 1121 men. The battalion became part of the 1st Canadian Division, 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade where it saw action at Ypres and along the Western Front. The battalion returned to Canada on 21 April 1919, was demobilized on 24 April 1919, and disbanded soon after. [1] [2]
The 1914 British infantry brigade comprised a small headquarters and four infantry battalions, with two heavy machine guns per battalion. [14] [15] Over the course of the war, the composition of the infantry brigades gradually changed, and there was an increased emphasis upon providing them with their own organic fire support.
The 26th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.Its nickname is "Blue Spaders", taken from German soldiers in World War I who saw the spade-like device on the regiment's distinctive unit insignia and called the soldiers “Blauerspadern”.