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| Affiliation    = [[Star League]]
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| Affiliation    = Star League
 
| Parent Command = [[Star League Defense Force]]
 
| Parent Command = [[Star League Defense Force]]
 
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The [[Star League Defense Force]]'s '''Nineteenth Army''' was assigned to operations within the [[Taurian Concordat]] Region of the [[Periphery Military Region]].<ref name="TSLp157">''The Star League'', p. 157: "Nineteenth Army"</ref>
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The [[Star League Defense Force]]'s '''Nineteenth Army''' was assigned to operations within the [[Taurian Concordat]] Region of the [[Periphery Military Region]].<ref name="TSLp157">''The Star League'', p. 157, "Nineteenth Army"</ref>
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
The Nineteenth Army had been operating on close to an actual war footing for some years prior to the [[Periphery Uprising]] due to the Concordat's tendency to be a hotbed for trouble within the [[Periphery]]. Consistently facing an ongoing low-level insurrection and an antagonistic civil population,<ref name=FM:SLDFp221>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 221</ref> the Nineteenth was better prepared than many for the explosion of violence that heralded the beginning of the Uprising; the Nineteenth chose to withdraw from some conflict zones while contesting others, and the presence of [[Commanding General of the Star League Defense Force|General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] in the Nineteenth's midst kept morale high, even though the Nineteenth had taken substantial losses by mid-[[2767]]. Of the twenty-one [[division]]s and thirty independent [[regiment]]s that formed the Nineteenth on paper, by the time of the 2767 ceasefire ten divisions and eleven regiments had been destroyed or disbanded.<ref name="H:LoTv1p45">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 45: "Nineteenth Army"</ref>
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The Nineteenth Army had been operating on a footing close to an actual war footing for some years prior to the [[Periphery Uprising]] due to the Concordat's tendency to be a hotbed for trouble within the [[Periphery]]. Consistently facing an ongoing low-level insurrection and an antagonistic civil population<ref name=fmsldf/>, the Nineteenth were better prepared than many for the explosion of violence that heralded the beginning of the Uprising; the Nineteenth chose to withdraw from some conflict zones while contesting others, and the presence of [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] in the Nineteenth's midst kept morale high, even though the Nineteenth had taken substantial losses by mid [[2767]]. Of the twenty-one [[Division]]s and thirty Independent [[Regiment]]s that formed the Nineteenth on paper, by the time of the 2767 ceasefire ten Divisions and eleven Regiments had been destroyed or disbanded, leaving the Nineteenth operating at just fifty-four percent of its original combat strength.<ref name="H:LoTv1p45">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 45, "Nineteenth Army"</ref>
  
 
==Officers==
 
==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 19th Army'''
 
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 19th Army'''
 
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| [[General]]||[[Abhinav Hammond]]||[[2763]]<ref name=FM:SLDFp221/>
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| [[General]]||[[Abhinav Hammond]]||[[2763]]<ref name=fmsldf>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 221</ref>
 
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| General||[[Cristian Greene]]||2763 - [[2765]]<ref name=FM:SLDFp221/><ref name="H:LoTv1p45"/>
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| [[General]]||[[Cristian Greene]]||[[2763]]-[[2765]]<ref name="H:LoTv1p45"/><ref name=fmsldf></ref>
 
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* 7 Infantry Divisions<ref name="TSLp157"/>
 
* 7 Infantry Divisions<ref name="TSLp157"/>
 
* 19 Independent Regiments<ref name="TSLp157"/>
 
* 19 Independent Regiments<ref name="TSLp157"/>
By mid-2767, the Nineteenth Army was operating at 54% of full combat strength.<ref name="H:LoTv1p45"/>
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By mid-2767 the 19th Army was operating at 54% of full combat strength.<ref name="H:LoTv1p45"/>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

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