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	Finnish Defence Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Finnish Defence Forces are under the command of the Chief of Defence, who is directly subordinate to the President of the Republic in matters related to the military command.
		These Finnish Jäger troops arrived in February 1918 in the white capital city of Vaasa and formed the core of the White Army in the Finnish Civil War.
		According to the Finnish law the maximum simultaneous strength of the peacekeeping forces is 2000 soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Finland (934 words)

	MSN Encarta - Russo-Finnish War
		Finland's standing army, which at the war's onset consisted of three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade, and a tank company, was bolstered by trained and partly trained reserves.
		From February 1 to 10, 1940, Finnish fortifications on the Mannerheim line were subjected to an artillery bombardment which at its peak reached 300,000 shells a day.
		According to an official Finnish communiqué, Finnish casualties totaled 19,263 killed and 43,500 wounded; Soviet estimates of Finnish losses were considerably higher.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559416/Russo-Finnish_War.html (685 words)

	Regiments, Swedish, Cavalry
		In the new tactic the cavalry was to charge with the swords ready in their hands.
		Cavalry had no place in the new modern warfare and World War I was the last war with horsemen in action.
		Both a cavalry unit and a dragoon unit were established in the province in 1661.
	www.algonet.se /~hogman/regiments_cav_eng.htm (5190 words)

	AllRefer.com - Finland - Military Heritage \| Finnish Information Resource
		The first indigenous Finnish military elements of three light infantry regiments were raised at the time of Napoleon's eastward drive in 1812, but during most of the nineteenth century, the only Finnish military force was a guards battalion paid for by the tsar.
		When most of the Finnish officer corps threatened to resign in 1924 over the dominance of the Russian-trained leadership, most of the Russian officers were moved aside and the jaeger officers began to occupy the higher echelons, bringing the influence of German military doctrine and training methods with them.
		The Finnish Military Academy was reactivated in 1919, and during the 1920s a reserve officers' school was formed, together with NCO schools for various branches and arms of the service.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/finland/finland163.html (1607 words)

	FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: RIFLES PART II
		Finnish nation-wide voluntary defence auxiliary organisation "Lotta-Svärd" was a large financier for the purchases of rifle barrels for these rifles (at year 1923 Lotta-Svärd organisation had collected 545,337 marks in donations for this purpose).
		During WW2 cavalry rifles M/27 were the main weaponry of Finnish cavalry and participated in heavy fighing in frontline.
		In summer of 1944 Cavalry Brigade received heavy losses in battles fought in islands of Viipuri Gulf, p resumably a high large number of M/27 cavalry rifles were lost in these battles (the last method of getting off the islands was often swimming - and nobody could swim with rifle very long).
	www.jaegerplatoon.net /RIFLES2.htm (3392 words)

	Sturmi!
		The Finnish army relied less on mechanised armour than their German counterparts, however it was clear that Finland needed better quality tanks and more of them.
		Finnish Sturmis destroyed a total of 87 Soviet tanks in June and July 1944, while losing only eight of their own vehicles.
		The machine gun shield on the Finnish Sturmis was adapted to take the Russian DT machine gun by widening the hole in the armour, and welding on a new mounting point.
	www.clubhyper.com /reference/sturmi1.html (5412 words)

	Finnish Mosin Nagant Rifle - FAQ's
		Cavalry, messenger, and such troops were issued the Finnish carbines.
		The Finnish Civil Guard was abolished under the treaty that ended the Continuation War with the Soviet Union.
		Finnish bayonets were never made in large numbers and the issue losses of these bayonets cut the low production numbers even more.
	www.mosinnagant.net /finland/finnfaq.asp (5619 words)

	Articles - 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Nederland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On Christmas Day, 1943, the brigade was deemed ready for the front, and, along with Steiner's SS Corps, was moved to the area around Oranienbaum in Army Group North's sector.
		Stationed alongside the Nordland, the brigade was involved in fierce fighting protecting the stragtegically vital city of Libau, one of the embarkation points for troops to be withdrawn to Germany.
		On January 26, the brigade received orders to evacuate the pocket by sea and report to the SwinemÃ¼nde-Stettin area to participate in the defense of the Oder line.
	www.afinest.com /articles/SS_Division_Nederland (3169 words)

	The Finnish Artillery Arm in the Winter War
		In 1936, the Operative section of the Finnish General Headquarters (hereafter GHQ in the text) compiled a memo, where the deployment of the artillery forces, into different directions (fronts) was handled in detail.
		General Nenonen is widely regarded as the father of the Finnish artillery, being in addition of a talented officer, also a brilliant scientist and inventor.
		The bulk of the Finnish artillery was concentrated to the Karelian Isthmus.
	www.winterwar.com /forces/FinArmy/FINartiller.htm (5701 words)

	The Finnish Defence Forces: Hämeen Rykmentti
		The principal task of the regiment is to train personnel of the Finnish Defence Forces and the Frontier Guard as well as conscripts and reservists.
		The colours of the regiment are the old red and white flag of the Tampere Regiment, and the march of honour, March of Parola, is also inherited from the same regiment.
		The anniversary of the regiment is celebrated on 3 October, the day when the Finnish Ministry of Defence made the decision to establish the regiment.
	www.mil.fi /maavoimat/joukot/hamr/hamrengl_en.dsp (319 words)

	The Swedish Army in the Napoleonic Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most national cavalry and infantry units raised during Gustavus reign still existed in the 1680’s and were used to create the new indelta units, so by 1805 most indelta units could trace their regimental linage and history almost 200 years back in time.
		The cavalry and dragoon regiments had a number strength of 1000 and an eight squadron establishment, with the exception of the larger Horse Life-regiment and the diminutive Jemtlands hästjägaresqvadron ("Jemtlands chasseurs à cheval squadron").
		The Finnish part of the army’s establishment (including those numbers that were only to be raised only in wartime and the indelta units raised during the war) had a number strength of 16348.
	www.histofig.com /history/empire/armees/arm_suede_en.html (6325 words)

	Scandinavian soldiers in the Confederate Forces - Scandinavians in Confederate Texas Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johnson's "Prairieville Company", Kaufman county, 13th Brigade, TST) Appointed to the regimental staff as Sergeant Major sometime prior to the Battle of Honey Springs (Elk Creek), Creek Nation (Indian Territory), 17 Jul 63.
		In this engagement, Reierson was singled out for praise by Colonel Thomas Coke Bass, and cited for conspicuous bravery by Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper in his report of the battle (Official Records, series I, volume 22, p.
		Reorganized and increased to a regiment 17 Mar 62.
	www.borgerkrigen.info /ScandinavianConfederates/tx_cavalry.htm (2875 words)

	Tools : Axis Cavalry in World War II (Men-at-Arms Series)
		The volume consists of six sections: German army cavalry in 1939-1941, Cavalry operations in 1939-1941, Continuing role of cavalry in 1942-1945, Waffen SS cavalry, Mounting and supporting German cavalry and a short section on non-German cavalry.
		The Finnish army had the 1st Cavalry Brigade, which is not mentioned here, or the Bulgarian cavalry units employed in anti-partisan duties in Macedonia.
		The second flaw is a failure to compare the various Axis cavalry units and discuss their strengths and weaknesses from an organization viewpoint.
	www.homeremodelingtoday.com /tools/cordless/1841763233 (873 words)

	The Finnish Defence Forces: History of the Defence Forces
		The Finnish troops on the Isthmus had to retreat immediately to the main defensive position.
		The army consisted of five corps, made up of 12 brigades, a jaeger brigade and a cavalry brigade.
		The Red Army responded by bombing Finnish airfields and population centres on June 25.
	www.mil.fi /perustietoa/esittely/historia/index_7_en.dsp (505 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Russo-Finnish War
		In some cases the Russians were driven back beyond their own frontiers.
		Timoshenko concentrated about 300,000 troops against the Mannerheim line and supported the offensive with artillery and air power.
		The treaty ended the first phase of World War II for the Finns.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761559416__1/Russo-Finnish_War.html (735 words)

	FINNISH DEFENCE FORCES FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Helsinki_Air_Defence_Regiment in HyrylÃ¤ and the Savo_Brigade in Mikkeli will be disbanded in 2007.
		These Finnish_JÃ¤ger_troops arrived in February 1918 in the white capital city of Vaasa and formed the core of the White Army in the Finnish_Civil_War.
		Since 1996 the Pori_brigade has trained a special jaeger battalion, the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force (FRDF), which can take part in crisis management operations at short notice.
	www.witwib.com /Finnish_Defence_Forces (852 words)

	Carl Johan Adlercreutz
		As a thirteen-year old he was signed onto the army at the Finnish light cavalry brigade.
		In 1777, he joined the Savolax Brigade, which was formed to protect the Finnish border in case of Russian attack.
		Instead he was made commander of the Second Brigade of the Swedish Army during the first phases of the war of 1808-09, and was later made second in command under the Mauritz Klingspor.
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/biographies/c_adlercrutz.html (1526 words)

	Finnish Music Information Centre
		It is the story of a day in the life of a municipal physician and a village community in North Karelia in the late 1940s, when doctors were still closely involved in the private lives of their patients in addition to treating them.
		The action of the opera is based on historical events in the Pieksämäki region in the early 18th century, focusing on the helplessness of the individual - especially a woman - in the face of the community.
		The Finnish Jaegers were a group of men secretly sent to military training in Germany to prepare for eventual armed conflict in the independence struggle; after Finland became independent (1917), they formed the core of the officer corps of the newly-founded Finnish Army in the Civil War (1918-1919).
	www.fimic.fi /fimic/fimic.nsf/82c219a4e9e6055e422566c0004a78d3/aa7d14ca8912117342256bd000410e99!OpenDocument (4997 words)

	FMP - Finnish Insignia of Rank & Collar Patch Colours 1939 - 1945
		Pre-additions to the rank of General are "Cavalry", "Infantry" and "Artillery" e.g.
		A new General's rank Prikaatikenraali [Brigade General] was introduced during the 1980's with one lion and all former Generals' ranks got one more lion.
		During the war cadre NCOs who were also reserve officers used their reserve ranks.
	www.geocities.com /finnmilpge/fmp_ranks.html (296 words)

	Continuation War, June 1944
		~ Finnish decide to disband all men that are born in the years 1902 to 1904, but this decision is never carried out.
		~ Finnish tank division attacks, in the are of Leitimojärvi.
		~ Finnish forces in Leitimojärvi, are reinforced with one division and with a German assault gun brigade.
	www.silentwall.com /CWJune44.html (1042 words)

	Romanian-Finnish relations
		In 1742, during Finland’s occupation by the Russian army, a Moldavian cavalry regiment fighting along with Russian troops spent a winter in Finland, in the village of Laihia, near the town of Vaasa.
		They all travelled across Romania and there are six volumes (3 of them in Finnish and the other 3 in Swedish) that include, among other, their impressions on Romanian traditions and way of life, both in the cities and in the countryside.
		Brita Wrede, a Finnish lady living in Sweden, visited Romania in 1943 to deliver conferences on the situation of Carelia, destroyed by the war.
	www.romania.fi /relations.html (639 words)

	► » Charge of Light Brigade -> Finnish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Googling I've found that the title of the film in Finnish is "Ne urhoollista".
		The Light Brigade was a group of British cavalrymen that fought during de
		I think the 'light' comes from light cavalry (as opposed to heavy cavalry).
	www.science-chat.org /Charge-of-Light-Brigade--Finnish-5568986.html (591 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Joseph Orville Shelby - June 28th, 2004
		The fate of the brigade's guidon is unknown.
		The Iron Cavalry Brigade operated chiefly in Arkansas and Missouri, participating in all the major engagements in the region.
		In October 1864 the brigade crossed the Arkansas River into Texas and at the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Leeqv was at Marshall.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1161478/posts (6063 words)

	Finnish Artillery in Winter War
		In Finnish artillery, the "unit of fire" was set according to the calibre.
		At times, the strictness with the shell expenditure went to nearly ridiculous proportions, as the permission to fire additional shells had to be asked for each case separately.
		The Soviet opinion was that the Finnish artillery didn't fire enough at targets in front of their
	www.winterwar.com /Numbers/FinArmy/FINartiller.htm (5618 words)

	Military History Online - The Kerensky Offensive
		Opposing the Russian hordes were 26 infantry divisions, one cavalry brigade, and 988 guns of which only 60 were of a heavy caliber(14).
		The Zoraisky Regiment took the village of Presovce and the Fourth Finnish Division, assisted by the Czech brigade, moved into good positions on the heights of Zborov and Korshiduv.
		The Russian Seventh Army in the center of the line was the strongest of the three engaged in the offensive.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwi/articles/kerenskyoffensive.aspx (4584 words)

	Timeline 1862-1863
		He proved to be an excellent cavalry leader despite his prewar experience as a music teacher who hated horses.
		A man with little military training or experience--and a pronounced dislike of horses--would soon prove to be one of the most skilled cavalry leaders of the war.
		Armed with their new, lethal seven-shot Spencer rifles, Wilder’s Lightning Brigade was all that stood between the Union Army and the looming disaster at Chickamauga Creek.
	timelines.ws /1862_1863.HTML (14714 words)

	Organisations For Back To Basics.
		1 Cavalry Squadron 3 AMR 33 (3) or AMR 35(3) or AMC 35/47(3), or AMC 35/25(3), or ACC 38/37 or ACC 38/25(3)
		It was largely an infantry force, with two motorised brigades, and a large cavalry arm.
		The unit is attached to AT Regimens, Tank Brigades, Heavy Tank and Heavy SP AT or Assault Regiments.
	ww2mekton.freeservers.com /wwiiorg.htm (15450 words)

	Amazon.com: Axis Cavalry in World War II (Men-at-Arms Series): Books: Jeffrey T. Fowler,Mike Chappell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Not only was the majority of Army transport and much of the artillery dependent on draught horse teams; the Germans also kept a horse-mounted cavalry division in the field until the end of 1941.
		After withdrawing it, they discovered a need to revive and greatly expand their cavalry units in 1943-45.
		The Army and Waffen-SS cavalry proved their worth on the Russian Front, supported by other Axis cavalry contingents - Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, and locally recruited.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1841763233?v=glance (1518 words)

	FMP - Finnish Defence Forces in WW II - Contents
		Finnish authorities and Civil Guard soldiers are inspecting Soviet Tupolev SB medium bomber shot down in southern Finland during the Winter War.
		Finnish Military Ranks (Land Forces, Coastal Artillery and Air Force)
		Finnish State Railways during the WW II - Railway Officers 1939 - 1944
	www.geocities.com /finnmilpge/fmp_contents.html (622 words)

	Tac: WWII Miniatures rules for Second World War brigade level actions. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tac: WWII Miniatures rules for Second World War brigade level actions.
		Security Brigade, Security Division and Light Division 1941 to 1943
		1st Cavalry Division and Hussar Division 1944 to 1945
	www.kidlington66.freeserve.co.uk /aaostfront.htm (284 words)

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