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    Armoured companion (Polish: Towarzysz pancerny Polish: [tɔˈvaʐɨʂ panˈtsɛrnɨ], plural: towarzysze pancerni) was a medium-cavalryman in 16th to 18th century...
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    mounted retainers (cavalry) and free servants (hussars, cossack – Armoured companion, Petyhorcy, Hajduk), or with none or one retainer and very few free...
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  • was pocztowy. In the cavalry, each poczet was commanded by a Companion or Armoured companion. Several poczets were combined to form larger units like a...
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  • equivalent of the Polish Armoured Companion, or as a cavalry type that was between the Winged Hussars and the Armoured Companion. They were organised in...
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    Dahae horse archers to harass the Indian right-wing cavalry. His armoured Companion cavalry was sent to attack their outnumbered Indian counterparts on...
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    Wisniowiecki, King of Poland, the day before the battle. Hussars: 1,670 Armoured companion: 11,105 Dragoons: 5,828 Wallachian cavalry: 1,619 Arquebusiers: 342...
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    Percy Hobart (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    his command of the 79th Armoured Division during the Second World War. He was responsible for many of the specialised armoured vehicles ("Hobart's Funnies")...
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    the defensive formation. However, they were not aware of Polish armoured companions and Bohemian cavalry, hidden on both sides of the field between both...
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    James Chiswell (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division in October 2012 and Director Special Forces in 2015. Chiswell was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath...
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    the outbreak of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Skrzetuski served in the armoured companion under the command of rittmaster Marek Gdeszyński; he was his right-hand...
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    The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is an administrative corps of the Australian Army. It provides the Australian Defence Force's Armour capability...
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    British Army advance. Its companion vehicle, developed at the same time, is another variant of the Challenger 2, the Titan armoured bridge layer, of which...
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    Front section commanded by Jan Sobieski consisted mostly of c. 1470 armoured companions, c. 170 infantry and cannons (commanded by Marcin Kątski), with purpose...
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    William Gott (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    command the 7th Armoured Division. During the next major Commonwealth offensive, Operation Crusader, in November 1941, 7th Armoured Division was severely...
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    Frank Messervy (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    31st Indian Armoured Division. He was instead appointed to replace Major General Herbert Lumsden, the wounded commander of the 1st Armoured Division which...
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  • Henry Bowreman Foote (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    Supply from 1948 to 1949 and commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade from 1949 to 1950 and the 11th Armoured Division from 1950 to 1953. He was Director General...
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    horsemen such as the bodyguard unit of Cyrus the Younger were rather heavily armoured by the standards of the era. By the time of Alexander's invasion cataphract...
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    variants. The variants include the armoured engineering vehicle Kodiak, the armoured recovery vehicle Büffel, and the armoured vehicle-launched bridge Leguan...
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    While Australia formed three armoured divisions and two independent armoured brigades during the war, Australian armoured units only saw action as independent...
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    to colonel in 1960, he commanded the 22nd Armoured Brigade (1960–1961), served as Commander, Royal Armoured Corps in the I(BR) Corps of the British Army...
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  • Charles Gairdner (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    served as commanding officer of the 10th Royal Hussars, 6th Armoured Division and 8th Armoured Division during the Second World War. He retired from the...
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    period" of the mid-16th-century, heavy hussars largely replaced armoured lancers riding armoured horses, in the Polish Obrona Potoczna cavalry forces serving...
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    Herbert Lumsden (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    who fought in both the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 1st Armoured Division in the Western Desert campaign, and later commanded X Corps at...
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  • English) is an unfinished book on armoured tactics and warfare by Erwin Rommel. It was to be the follow-up and companion work to his earlier and highly successful...
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    Mike Elviss (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. He became the commander of the 20th Armoured Infantry Brigade in 2016; Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations, Field Army...
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  • Arthur Borton (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    Reserve, where he won the Distinguished Service Order serving with the RNAS Armoured Cars. Borton was appointed Second-in-Command of the 2nd/22nd London Regiment...
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    New Zealand Division (with the 9th Armoured Brigade under command), the 10th Armoured Division and the 7th Armoured Division. The attacks in the south...
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  • Armored Core (redirect from Armoured Core)
    Line introduced new gameplay mechanics, including computer-controlled companions and a first person mode. Armored Core: Nexus was released on March 18...
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    Christopher Cradock (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    squadron. Cradock was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 26 June. He assumed command of the armoured cruiser HMS Bacchante on 20 December...
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    Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    brigade was mechanised in 1938 and re-designated 1st Light Armoured Brigade, becoming the 1st Armoured Brigade in 1940. On the outbreak of the Second World...
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