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{{infoBoxStateUnit
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| Designation   = 59th Jump Infantry Division
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| nickname = The King's own Jump Troops
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| parent formation = [[Star League Defense Force]]
| Disbanded      =
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| formed  = unknown
| Previous Designation =
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| year    = 2764
| Nickname      = The King's Own Jump Troops<ref name=FM:SLp193>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 193</ref>
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| unitname = 59th Jump Infantry Division
| Affiliation    = [[Star League]]
 
| Parent Command = [[XXXVI Corps (Star League)|XXXVI Corps]]
 
| Sub-Command    =  
 
 
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The '''Fifty-ninth Jump Infantry Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army. Bearing the nickname "The King's Own Jump Troops", most of the 59th's units were drawn from the old British army. By convention, any member of the [[Duke of England]]'s family that enlisted in the SLDF was assigned to the 59th Jump.<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
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The '''Fifty-ninth Jump Infantry Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
In [[2764]], the unit was assigned, as a part of the [[XXXVI Corps (Star League)|XXXVI Corps]], [[16th Army (Star League)|Sixteenth Army]], to District 3 of the [[Draconis Combine Military Region]] but was moved to an undisclosed area of the [[Periphery]] in [[2765]] as part of the redeployment effort to fight the [[Periphery Uprising]].<ref name=SL149>''The Star League'', p. 149, "Sixteenth"</ref> The 59th survived the war and the [[Hegemony Campaign]], and followed General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]] in [[2784]].<ref name=SL149/>
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In [[2764]], the unit was assigned, as a part of the [[XXXVI Corps (Star League)|XXXVI Corps]], [[Sixteenth(Star League)|Sixteenth Army]], to District 3 of the [[Draconis Combine Military Region]] but was moved to an undisclosed area of the [[Periphery]] to take part in the [[Reunification War]] by [[2765]].<ref name=SL149>''The Star League'', p. 149, "Fifteenth"</ref>. The 59th survived the war and the [[Hegemony Campaign]], and followed General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]] in [[2784]].<ref name=SL149/>
  
==Officers==
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
 
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 59th Jump Infantry Division'''
 
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| [[Major General]]||[[Neville Ponsonby]]||[[2764]]<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
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|}
 
 
==Tactics==
 
Unknown.
 
 
==Composition History==
 
As an [[SLDF]] [[Jump Infantry]] [[division]] the 59th would have been formed from two [[Brigade|brigades]] of Jump Troops, one brigade of [[BattleMech|'Mech]] [[regiment]]s and two Ground Aero [[Wing (Military Unit)|Wings]].<ref name="SLp133">''The Star League'', p. 133</ref>
 
 
===2764===
 
Among the regiments assigned to the 59th were a number of units descended the old Terran kingdom of Britain:
 
* [[The Royal Regiment of British Infantry Guards]]<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
* [[The Queen's Jump Fusiliers]]<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
* The [[16th Jump Infantry Regiment]] (Welsh and English)<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
* [[The Green Jacket Rifles]]<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
* [[The Royal British Dragoon Guards]]<ref name=FM:SLp193/>
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
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*''[[The Star League]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''
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[[Category:Star League Defense Force - Exodus Commands|Jump Infantry Division, 0059th]]
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[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands|Jump Infantry Division, 59th]]
[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Jump Infantry Division|Jump Infantry Division, 0059th]]
 

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