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	Baloch RegimentBaloch regiment is second in seniority after Punjab regiment in Pakistan Army, Whose oldest battalion ...
		When the 13th Frontier Force Rifles was formed in 1922, the 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Rifles returned to their old numbers as the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th battalions, the 3rd remaining blank as before.
		The Pathan Regiment was raised from formed fromthe 4th Battalion of the Frontier Force Regiment and the 4th and 15th Battalions of the Frontier Force Rifles.
		Frontier Force Regiment was re-organized by the merger of Frontier Force Regiment, Frontier Force Rifles and Pathan Regiment.
	orbat.com /site/history/open1/pakistan_ffr.html (3844 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/12th Frontier Force Regiment
		The 12th Frontier Force Regiment’s origins lie in the four infantry regiments of the Frontier Brigade authorised in 1846 and raised by Colonel Henry Lawrence, the agent of the Governor-General of the Punjab frontier region, from veterans of disbanded opposition forces after the First Anglo-Sikh War.
		In the 1922 reorganisation of the British Indian Army the four Sikh regiments (by now re-named 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th Sikhs) became the first four battalions of the newly-constituted 12th Frontier Force Regiment whilst the infantry element of the Corps of Guides became its 5th and 10th battalions.
		In 1956 The Frontier Force Rifles and The Pathan Regiment were amalgamated with it whilst it retained the name Frontier Force Regiment.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/12th_Frontier_Force_Regiment (277 words)

	Gurkha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1901 and 1906, the Gurkha regiments were renumbered from the 1st to the 11th and redesignated as Gurkha Rifles.
		The reason appears to have been the pragmatic one that the Gurkha regiments of the Indian Army would continue to serve in their existing roles in familiar territory and under terms and conditions that were well established.
		The four regiments (or eight battalions) in British service have since been reduced to a single (two battalion) regiment while the Indian units have been expanded beyond their pre-Independence establishment of twelve battalions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurkha (2796 words)

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		The term Frontier Brigade was dropped in 1847 and the four regiments became the 1st, 2nd (or Hill Corps), 3rd and 4th regiments of Sikh Local Infantry.
		The badge chosen for the new regiment was a stringed bugle-horn with '12' between the strings, a crown above and title-scrolls flanking the bugle-horn.
		On Partition, in August 1947, The Frontier Force Regiment as it had now become since most of the infantry regiments had lost their numbers, was logically assigned to Pakistan.
	www.pakdef.info /pakmilitary/army/regiments/12ffreg.html (1587 words)

	Transforming Pakistan's Frontier Corps
		The Frontier Corps is a federal paramilitary force stationed in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan Province, known as FC NWFP and FC Balochistan, respectively.
		The Frontier Corps should not be confused with the Frontier Constabulary and the Frontier Force Regiment.
		Given the expansion of the force, the title was changed to inspector general (equal to the rank of a brigadier) in 1943.
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	Nowa Omoigui: From "Glover's Hausas" to 4 Guards Battalion - 141 years later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Meanwhile the "Hausa force detachment" was deployed at Elmina and subsequently formalized as a separate Gold Coast Constabulary (in 1879), which eventually gave birth to the Ghana Army and Police.
		On January 1st, 1914, consequent upon the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria, The Southern Nigeria Regiment was merged with The Northern Nigeria Regiment to form The Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force.
		As the 4th regiment, they were drafted in late 1914 to take part in the British invasion of German Kamerun, which ended in 1916 after which they were later deployed as part of the campaign against Von Lettow in East Africa until 1918.
	www.omoigui.com /2004/09/from_glovers_ha.html (3790 words)

	THE GUIDES CAVALRY (10th QUEEN VICTORIA'S OWN FRONTIER FORCE)
		The Guides Infantry were now to become part of the 12th Frontier Force Regiment.
		Scarlet was clearly unsuited for frontier warfare but tradition died hard and Lumsden was, for many years, a lone exponent of inconspicuous dress for soldiers on service.
		Throughout the 1890's the Corps was more or less continuously engaged in frontier actions - Hazara in 1891 and Chitral in 1895, the Malakand Pass and Chakdara in 1897.
	www.defencejournal.com /jun99/guides-cavalry.htm (975 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers - Bibliography
		Garfield, Marvin "Defense of the Kansas Frontier, 1864-1865." The Kansas Historical Quarterly, I, 2 (February, 1932).
		McMiller, Anita Williams, Buffalo Soldiers: The Formation of the Tenth Cavalry Regiment from September, 1866 to August, 1867.
		Frank C. "Fort Wallace and Its Relation to the Frontier." Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, XVII (Topeka, 1928).
	www.buffalosoldiers.com /Bibliography.htm (2139 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: Indian Infantry: 51st Sikhs
		The four Sikh regiments sprung from the disbanded regiments of Sikhs following Gough's victory at Sobraon (10th Feb 1846) at the end of the First Sikh War.
		The P I F as it was known, became famous throughout the Empire and the men who served in it were proud to call themselves 'Piffers' long after the name changed.
		Regiments and Corps of the British Army: A Critical Bibliography
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/51stsikhs.htm (409 words)

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		Spain’s declaration of war on England forced the British to fight on several fronts at the same time, having to oppose the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 90 vessels which was laying siege to Gibraltar, and (which) had even threatened to invade England itself.
		However, concentration of forces to invade Jamaica were well advanced; and Saavedra went to Paris and Madrid to seek support for Jamaica operations.
		Britain was forced to negotiate, but she, like Saddam Hussein in 2002, was very good at that.
	www.somosprimos.com /hough/hough.htm (16448 words)

	12th Frontier Force Regiment [India / Pakistan]
		united with The Frontier Force Rifles, and The Pathan Regiment, to form
		12th Frontier Force Regiment, by John Gaylor (PakDef Military Consortium)
		The Frontier Force Regiment, by Babar Mahmud (Orbat.com)
	www.regiments.org /regiments/southasia/inf/1922-12.htm (120 words)

	Military history
		ADAM FRANK The Clans, Septs, And Regiments Of The Scottish Highlands.
		Adventures of a sojourn by Digger Craven.with an irregular force in the mysterious hill country that lies beyond the north-west frontier province of British India.
		A General Account of the Regiments and Men of the British Army and Stories of the Brave Deeds which won the Prize.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /military.htm (2805 words)

	Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC
		is in the Continental uniform of his 2nd SC Regiment after he occupied Georgetown, June 6, 1781.
		After scouting the encampment Marion split his force into three companies and attacked at midnight.
		Marion positioned his force in an ambush for Tarleton along the approach to the ferry.
	web.ftc-i.net /~gcsummers/revolution.htm (3638 words)

	DAWN - Letters; November 14, 2006
		Musharraf himself in his memoirs writes: “When US troops were trapped in the thickly populated Madina Bazaar area of Mogadishu, it was the seventh Frontier Force Regiment of the Pakistan Army that reached out and extricated them.
		The bulk of the forces were deployed on Kargil heights in an exaggerated forward posture across a frontage of over 100 kms in about 130 posts.
		The forces inserted would then have fanned out to create a perimeter of defence by security critical points to further isolate the Skardu theatre.
	www.dawn.com /2006/11/14/letted.htm (2924 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers - Who are the Buffalo Soldiers? African American Soldiers in American History. African Americans Who ...
		The 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments also conducted campaigns against American Indian tribes on a western frontier that extended from Montana in the Northwest to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the Southwest.
		Later the four infantry regiments were merged into the 24th and 25th Infantries.
		Victorio was forced to retreat into Mexico, where he and his band were later killed by Mexican troops.
	www.buffalosoldiers.com (1075 words)

	Corps Unit Index for 1 Duke of York's Own
		This page allows users to display all units associated with a specific corps or regiment of the British Commonwealth.
		The City of Sydney Regiment/The South Sydney Regiment
		The New South Wales Rifle Regiment/The West Sydney Regiment
	www.ordersofbattle.com /CorpsUnitIndex.aspx (94 words)

	Famous Firsts in Aviation
		Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings en route (Feb. 27–March 2).
		Emily H. Warner became employed by Frontier Airlines on Jan. 29 as second officer on a Boeing 737.
		at an average speed of 30 mph from Cormeilles-en-Vexin near Paris to the Royal Manston Air Force Base in southeast England in 5 hr., 30 min.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0004537.html (2997 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Military branches
		NA; note - the December 2001 Bonn Agreement calls for all militia forces to come under Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) control, but formation of a national army is likely to be a gradual process; Afghanistan's forces continue to be factionalized largely along ethnic lines
		VF Army (the air and air defense forces are subordinate commands within the Army), VRS Army (the air and air defense forces are subordinate commands within the Army)
		Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces (subordinate to Ministry of Defense), Internal Forces (subordinate to Ministry of Interior), Civil Defense Forces (subordinate to the president)
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2055.html (2809 words)

	The Frontier Force Regiment
		This webpage is for anyone with a historical interest in the Frontier Force Regiment of British India (now Pakistan)
		Photograph list of Commanding Officers of the oldest Frontier Force Battalion (Royal 6/13 or 1st FF) of Indian British Army before partition 1840s - 1947.
		QVO Corps of Guides raised 1846, from which many PIFFer units have later emerged
	www.geocities.com /scn_pk/frontier_force_regiment.html (82 words)

	The Frontier Force Regiment [Pakistan]
		How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
		formed by union of the fifteen battalions of The Frontier Force Regiment, The Frontier Force Rifles, and The Pathan Regiment (more battalions raised later)
		At formation the regiment encompassed the following pre-1922 battalions:
	www.regiments.org /regiments/southasia/inf-pak/frontier.htm (69 words)

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