XXII Corps (Star League)
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Unit Description
XXII Corps (or the Twenty-Second Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the Star League Defense Force. XXII Corps was a large Corps; prior to the collapse of the Star League it consisted of 9 divisions and 4 independent regiments.[1]
History
In 2764 XXII Corps was part of the 14th Army, assigned to District 1 of the Draconis Combine Military Region. When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the Periphery erupted with the New Vandenberg Uprising and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in 2765 XXII Corps was deployed into Districts 2 and 3 of the DCMR, along with the rest of the 14th Army, to backfill for units deployed into the Periphery Military Region.[1]
XXII Corps fought in the 12-year long Hegemony Campaign and took heavy losses; five of the nine divisions within the Corps were destroyed, as were all but one of the independent regiments. Despite the losses taken, XXII Corps mustered more combat strength on paper than any of the other Corps within the 14th Army in 2780.[1]
When General Aleksandr Kerensky led the bulk of the surviving SLDF on the Exodus, the majority of the units within XII Corps followed him; some elements of the 95thMechanized Infantry Division chose to remain in the Inner Sphere and joined the Draconis Combine, and history is silent on the final fate of the 79thMechanized Infantry Division.[1]
Composition History
2764
- 305th BattleMech Division (The Nirasaki Division)
- 349th Royal 8attleMech Division (The King Henry Division)
- 68th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 77th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 79th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 94th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division (The Bavarian Division)
- 95th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 124th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 131st Jump Infantry Division
- 229th Hussar Regiment
- 64th Dragoon Regiment
- 108th Dragoon Regiment
- 181st Dragoon Regiment
2784
- 349th Royal 8attleMech Division (The King Henry Division)
- 68th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 95th Mechanized Infantry Division
- 108th Dragoon Regiment
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Star League, p. 147