59th Infantry Division

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Overview

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

History

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XXXIII Corps, Third Army, to District 2 of the Federated Suns Military Region, but was moved to an undisclosed are of the Periphery by 2765, as part of the redeployment effort to fight the Periphery Uprising.[1] The 59th was destroyed during the Hegemony Campaign.[1]

Composition

As an SLDF Infantry division the 59th would have been formed from two brigades of grunt infantry and a brigade of light BattleMech regiments.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Star League, p. 151, "Third"
  2. The Star League, p. 133

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