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{{infoBoxMilitaryCommand
 
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| image          = [[Image:Star League Logo.png]]
| Designation    = Sixty-eighth Infantry Division
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| Designation    = 68th Infantry Division
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| formed        = unknown
 
| Disbanded      =  
 
| Disbanded      =  
 
| Previous Designation =  
 
| Previous Designation =  
 
| Nickname      = The Thai Militia<ref name=FM:SLDFp203>Field Manual SLDF, page 203</ref>
 
| Nickname      = The Thai Militia<ref name=FM:SLDFp203>Field Manual SLDF, page 203</ref>
| Affiliation    = [[Star League]]
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| Affiliation    = SLDF
 
| Parent Command = [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]]
 
| Parent Command = [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]]
 
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==History==
 
==History==
The Sixty-eighth formed a part of [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]], [[Seventeenth Army (Star League)|Seventeenth Army]], and in [[2764]] was stationed at an undisclosed location within the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] [[Territorial State]]. Although [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]] took heavy casualties during the [[New Vandenberg Uprising|Periphery uprising]] the Sixty-eighth survived to fight in the [[Hegemony Campaign]].<ref name="SLp155"/>
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The 68th formed a part of [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]], [[17th Army (Star League)|Seventeenth Army]], and in [[2764]] was stationed at an undisclosed location within the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] [[Territorial State]]. Although [[XLIII Corps (Star League)|XLIII Corps]] took heavy casualties during the [[New Vandenberg Uprising|Periphery uprising]] the 68th survived to fight in the [[Hegemony Campaign]].<ref name="SLp155"/>
  
The Sixty-eighth made it through the Hegemony Campaign and the bulk of the [[division]] followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]], although some elements of the [[division]] chose to remain in the [[Inner Sphere]] and joined the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name="SLp155"/> The [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] recruited enough SLDF personnel from the remains of the Sixty-eighth to form a new regiment, which was designated as the [[Eleventh Hesperus Guards]].<ref name="FSWp33">''First Succession War'', p. 33, "Those Left Behind (Continued)"</ref>
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The 68th made it through the Hegemony Campaign and the bulk of the [[division]] followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]], although some elements of the [[division]] chose to remain in the [[Inner Sphere]] and joined the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name="SLp155"/> The [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] recruited enough SLDF personnel from the remains of the 68th to form a new regiment, which was designated as the [[Eleventh Hesperus Guards]].<ref name="FSWp33">''First Succession War'', p. 33, "Those Left Behind (Continued)"</ref>
  
 
==Officers==
 
==Officers==
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
 
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Sixty-eighth Infantry Division'''
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 68th Infantry Division'''
 
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| [[Major General]]||[[Walailak Shinawatra]]||[[2764]]<ref name=FM:SLDFp203/>
 
| [[Major General]]||[[Walailak Shinawatra]]||[[2764]]<ref name=FM:SLDFp203/>
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==Composition History==
 
==Composition History==
As an [[SLDF]] infantry [[division]] the Sixty-eighth would have been formed from one [[brigade]] of light [[BattleMech]] [[regiment|regiments]] and two brigades of grunt infantry.<ref name="SLp133">''The Star League'', p. 133</ref>
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As an [[SLDF]] infantry [[division]] the 68th would have been formed from one [[brigade]] of light [[BattleMech]] [[regiment|regiments]] and two brigades of grunt infantry.<ref name="SLp133">''The Star League'', p. 133</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
 
 
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
 
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
 
* ''[[The Star League]]''
 
* ''[[The Star League]]''
 
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* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
  
 
[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Infantry Division|Infantry Division, 0068th]]
 
[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Infantry Division|Infantry Division, 0068th]]
 
[[Category:Star League Defense Force - Exodus Commands|Infantry Division, 0068th]]
 
[[Category:Star League Defense Force - Exodus Commands|Infantry Division, 0068th]]

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