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Re: [SG/DS] Unit Size Definitions

From: John Leary <john_t_leary@y...>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 21:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [SG/DS] Unit Size Definitions


--- John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Commonwealth moves all terms for cavalry/armor
> units down one level from us, so that a battalion is
> called a regiment, a company is called a squadron,
> and a platoon is called a troop.

John,
     This was standard during the 1800s, the one
battalion regiment of 600 men in 10 co. (inf.) was
the normal OOB for the U.S. and G.B..  (Napeleonic 
and Civil War)

Bye for now,
John L.

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