XLVIII Corps (Star League)
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Unit Description
XLVIII Corps (or the Forty-Eighth Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the Star League Defense Force. Prior to the collapse of the Star League XLVIII Corps was a fairly large corps consisting of 7 divisions and 10 independent regiments.[1]
History
In 2764 XLVIII Corps was part of the 17th Army assigned to the Magistracy of Canopus Territorial State. When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the Periphery erupted with the New Vandenberg Uprising and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in 2765 XLVIII Corps were swept up in the violence along with the rest of the 17th Army.[1]
XLVIII Corps lost several divisions in the Periphery conlift; one of these, the Pride of Pittsburgh, was disbanded as a result of heavy losses, and elements of the division went on to join the Capellan Confederation. The 11th Hussar Regiment was also lost, although through defection to the rebel side rather than combat.[1]
By the end of the Hegemony Campaign XLVIII Corps had lost two more independent regiments and another division in combat, while the 38th Jump Infantry Division took heavy enough losses that it was disbanded by 2784. When General Aleksandr Kerensky led the bulk of the SLDF on the Exodus both surviving divisions within XLVIII Corps followed him, as did two of the independent regiments, but several regiments chose to remain in the Inner Sphere. The 1894th Light Horse and the 8th Striker regiments joined the Federated Suns, while the 205th Heavy Assault Regiment joined the Lyran Commonwealth.[1]
Composition History
2764
- 260th BattleMech Division (The Little Big Horn Division)
- 271st BattleMech Division (The Outreach Division)
- 60th Infantry Division
- 22nd Mechanized Infantry Division
- 31st Royal Mechanized Infantry Division
- 265th Mechanized Infantry Division (Pride of Pittsburgh)
- 38th Jump Infantry Division
- 1894th Light Horse Regiment
- 11th Hussar Regiment
- 106th Hussar Regiment
- 405th Royal Dragoon Regiment
- 412th Dragoon Regiment
- 8th Striker Regiment
- 599th Battle Regiment
- 265th Heavy Assault Regiment
- 658th Marine Infantry Regiment
- 1007th Jump Infantry Division
2766
- 271st BattleMech Division (The Outreach Division)
- 60th Infantry Division
- 31st Royal Mechanized Infantry Division
- 38th Jump Infantry Division
- 1894th Light Horse Regiment
- 106th Hussar Regiment
- 405th Royal Dragoon Regiment
- 412th Dragoon Regiment
- 8th Striker Regiment
- 599th Battle Regiment
- 265th Heavy Assault Regiment
- 658th Marine Infantry Regiment
- 1007th Jump Infantry Division
2784
- 271st BattleMech Division (The Outreach Division)
- 31st Royal Mechanized Infantry Division
- 1894th Light Horse Regiment
- 106th Hussar Regiment
- 405th Royal Dragoon Regiment
- 8th Striker Regiment
- 265th Heavy Assault Regiment
- 658th Marine Infantry Regiment
- 1007th Jump Infantry Division