XXIII Corps (Star League)

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Unit Description

XXIII Corps (or the Twenty-Third Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the Star League Defense Force. Prior to the collapse of the Star League XXIII Corps was a large corps, consisting of 9 divisions and 2 independent regiments.[1]

History

In 2764 XXIII Corps was part of the 15th Army, assigned to District 2 of the Draconis Combine Military Region. When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the Periphery erupted with the New Vandenberg Uprising and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in 2765 XXIII Corps was deployed into into the Periphery Military Region along with the rest of the 15th Army.[1]

XXIII Corps took significant losses in the Periphery Uprising; not only were the 106th Mechanized Infantry Division lost in combat along with the Kursk Division, but the Caph Division took such heavy losses that it was disbanded in 2766, with elements of the division having joined the Periphery rebels. The Hegemony Campaign claimed more of XXIII Corps, with the Turkistan Hunters and the 29th Infantry Division lost in combat along with the independent 189th Light Horse Regiment. The 63rd Mechanized Infantry Division also took heavy losses in the campaign; by 2784 the division had been disbanded, with elements of the division joining the Free Worlds League and Lyran Commonwealth.[1]

When General Aleksandr Kerensky led the bulk of the SLDF on the Exodus in 2784 the majority of XXIII Corps chose to follow him; the exception to this was the 84th Light Horse Regiment, who signed on with the Capellan Confederation.[1]

Composition History

2764

2766

2784

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Star League, p. 148

Bibliography

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