• The 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment (Russian: 20-й драгунский Финляндский полк, romanized: 20y Dragunskiy Finlyandskiy Polk) was a cavalry regiment of the...
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    promoted to the rank of colonel, later in command of the 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment in 1910. Skoropadskyi would be promoted to major general and aide-de-camp...
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  • there are 100 Lithuanians in the 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment. He offered to organize them into a Lithuanian dragoon squadron. Throughout the unit's existence...
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    Guards' Rifle Battalion and the Finnish Dragoon Regiment (based in Vilmanstrand), continued to exist. However the Finnish Dragoons were disbanded the same year...
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    Hussar Regiment) Skånska kavalleriregementet (Scanian Cavalry Regiment) Stenbocks dragonregemente (Stenbock's Dragoon Regiment) Later raised Finnish cavalry...
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  • typically Finnish characteristics that are mostly due to the personnel structure of the Finnish Defence Forces. The ranks have official names in Finnish and...
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    Schauman (category Finnish noble families)
    Finnish Dragoon Regiment. Törbjorn Schauman (1918–2007), businessman. Viktor Rafael Schauman (1860–1946), major general, 1st commander of the Finnish...
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    Hannes Ignatius (category Finnish lieutenant generals)
    the Finnish Dragoon Regiment from 1892 to 1901. He was promoted to captain in 1900. After the abolition of The Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland, he...
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    Guards Cuirassier Regiment 1st (Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland) Guards Dragoons 2nd (Empress Alexandra of Russia) Guards Dragoons 1st Guards Uhlans...
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    for whom it seemed more important to liberate Jelgava, and the Rosean Regiment and Steinheil's forces sent by Essen went in different directions. On September...
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    Eugen Schauman (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    of his uncle, Colonel Theodor Schauman, from the command of the Finnish Dragoon Regiment, a unit from Lappeenranta, in December 1901, after Nikolai Bobrikov...
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    Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August...
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    Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (category Articles containing Finnish-language text)
    of the Second World War in Finland. It depicts a Finnish Army patrol of Battle Group Loimu, Infantry Regiment 1 (Finnish: taisteluosasto Loimu, jalkaväkirykmentti...
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  • the Life Regiment of Horse (K 1) in 1928. The regiment was raised on 20 February 1770 by Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten as the Finnish Light Dragoon Corps (Finska...
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    Battle of Lemo (category Battles of the Finnish War)
    the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia on 19–20 June 1808 (Julian calendar 7–8 June). On 19 June, about 2,500 Swedes landed at Lemo (Finnish:Lemu)...
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    AJB) is a specialized arctic light infantry unit under the Norrland Dragoon Regiment (K 4), based in Arvidsjaur, in the Norrbotten County of Sweden. Units...
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    the Smolensk War of 1632–1634, six more regular regiments, one reiter regiment, and a dragoon regiment were formed. Initially, they recruited children...
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    the war ended, in January 1906, he was reassigned to the 55th Finland Dragoon Regiment, which, under General A. N. Orlov, took part in pacifying rebels...
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    Infantry School (Finnish: Jalkaväkikoulu), Lappeenranta Signals School (Finnish: Viestikoulu), Riihimäki Reserve Officer School, Hamina Dragoon Band, Lappeenranta...
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  • in 1883. Each infantry battalion consisted of four companies. The Dragoon Regiment (Rakuunarykmentti, Dragonregemente) consisted of six squadrons (eskadroona)...
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  • 22nd Army Corps (Russian Empire) (category 1905 establishments in Finland)
    Helsingfors 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment Orenburg Cossack Division 22nd Mortar Artillery Division 22nd Sapper Battalion 1st Finnish Rifle Brigade, HQ...
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    Battle of Siikajoki (category Articles containing Finnish-language text)
    Regiment (2 squadrons) Finnish Artillery Regiment Tavastehus Infantry Regiment (3 battalions) Nyland Infantry Regiment (1 battalion) Nyland Dragoon Regiment...
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    Timo Kivinen (category Finnish generals)
    (born 8 December 1959) is a Finnish general who served as the Chief of Defence 2019–2024. Kivinen began his career as a dragoon, and was eventually promoted...
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    2 units specialised in reconnaissance : 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment and 2nd Hussar Regiment Other French units can perform long-range reconnaissance...
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    He served in 49th Arkhangelsk Dragoon Regiment, 55th Finland Dragoon Regiment, and 46th Pereyaslavl Dragoon Regiment later in life. He was sent to Copenhagen...
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    hussars were recruited into the Novgorod Dragoon Regiment. There was also the Consolidated Lance–Reitar–Hussar Regiment of the steward and Colonel Yakov Chelishchev...
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    Regiment (12 companies) - Colonel Reinhold von Rosen (German) Finnish (Light) Horsemen (Veteran) (12 companies) - Gen. Åke Henriksson Tott (Finnish)...
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    Mosin–Nagant (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    Small Arms in Finland 1918–1988. II Volume – Finnish Weapons] (in Finnish). Suomen asehistoriallinen seura. ISBN 978-951-25-0518-0. "The Finnish Mosin Nagant...
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    Otto von Brandenstein (category People of the Finnish Civil War (White side))
    killed by Soviet troops. Das Garde-Dragoner-Regiment 1. Großherzoglich Hessisches Nr. 23 [The Guard Dragoon Regiment 1st Grand Ducal Hessian No. 23] , 1914–1919...
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    the terms of the armistice. The Finnish Army was required by the Soviet Union to push Wehrmacht troops out of Finnish territory. After a series of minor...
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