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48th Infantry Division

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Forty-eighth Infantry Division
Disbanded 2784[1]
Nickname The Black Watch Division[2]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command LXVIII Corps

The Forty-eighth Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned as part of LXVIII Corps, Eighteenth Army to the Periphery Military Region but was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery in 2765 to take part in the Periphery Uprising. The Forty-eighth suffered heavy losses in the Hegemony Campaign and was disbanded in 2784.[1]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Forty-eighth Infantry Division
Major General Kiarra Pavesi 2764[2]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Infantry division, the Forty-eighth would have been formed from two brigades of grunt infantry and a brigade of light BattleMech regiments.[3]

References[edit]

  1. a b The Star League, p. 156: "Eighteenth Army"
  2. a b Field Manual: SLDF, p. 217
  3. The Star League, p. 133: "Divisions - Infantry Division"

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