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*Pride intensifies*

Bad ass!

"Gustav Adolf, Savior and Hero, Saved at Breitenfeld,the Freedom of Belief for the entire World. 7 September 1631 / 1831"

Gustav II Adolf's death at Lützen is one of the great tragedies of the early modern age.

As for the original question, I'd have to say Hampton's Legion.

Francis Marion (c.1732— February 27, 1795[1]) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.

Due to his irregular methods of warfare, he is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers. He was known as the Swamp Fox.

'Nuff said.

Doolittle and his Raiders trained at the airport here in Columbia, SC.  Also, at nearby Lake Murray is bomb island, a spot for ww2 bombers to make practice runs on.  A few years ago a crashed bomber was found and pulled from Lake Murray.

White League paramilitary group


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_League



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coushatta_massacre

I went to radio school at 29 Palms and later spent 4 months there in the field.

The Royal 22e Régiment, The Van Doos
The biggest Regiment in the  Canadian Forces with 5 Battalions and a band.

Battle Honours  include

War of 1812:
-The defense of Canada
-The battle of Chateaugay
-Crysler Farm

WWI
-Mont-Sorrel
-Somme 1916-18
-Flers-Courcelette
-Thiepval
-Les Hauteurs d'Ancre
-Arras 1917-18
-Vimy 1917
-Scarpe 1917-18
-Hill  70
-Ypres 1917
-Passchendaele
-Amiens
-Hindenburg Line
-Canal du Nord
- Cambrai 1918
-The push to Mons
-France/Flanders 1915-18

WWII
-Sicily landing
-Valguarnera
-Adrano
-Catenuova
-Sicily 1943
-Landing at Reggio
-Potenza
-The Sangro
-Casa Berardi
-Torre Mucchia
-Cassino II
-Gustav  Line
-The Liri Valley
-Hitler Line
-Gothic Line
-Borgo Santa Maria
-Lamone Passage
-Rimini Line
-San Martino-San Lorenzo
-San Fortunato
-Cesena
-Italy 1943-45
-Apeldoorn
-North West Europe 1945

Korea 1951-53

Afghanistan

They've traveled a bit and fought in a few little known battles, as  you can see.

Also from my home town is a certain General of the Canadian  Corps,  who lead the boys to victory in a few little know battles.

His  name is General Sir Arthur "Guts and Gaiters" Currie GCMG, KCB




Currie was the most capable commander on  the Western front during WWI. British  Prime Minister David Lloyd George said that  had the war continued into 1919, he would have replaced the retard Haig with Currie.

He led the troops during the second battle of Ypres, the  battle of the Somme, the battle of Vimy Ridge, the battle of Hill 70, the second battle of Passchendaele and Canada's Hundred Days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie

from my home state of hawaii: 442nd RCT
from my current state: 20th maine regiment.

neither of the above should need any explanation.

Though I no longer live in Newfoundland, it is the ancestral home of my mother's side of the family.



Battle honours:

The War of 1812:
DEFENCE OF CANADA - 1812-1815 - DÉFENSE DU CANADA
DETROIT
MAUMEE(all three honours awarded in commemoration of the Royal Newfoundland Fencible Infantry)

The Great War
SOMME, 1916, 1 July–18 November 1916
Albert (Beaumont Hamel), 1916
Le Transloy
ARRAS, 1917, 9 April–4 May 1917
Scarpe, 1917
Ypres 1917, '18
Langemarck, 1917
Poelcappelle
CAMBRAI, 1917
LYS
Bailleul
Kemmel
COURTRAI
FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1916-18
GALLIPOLI, 1915-16
EGYPT, 1915-16

The Royal Newfoundland Regiment (then a Battalion-sized unit) was the only North American unit to fight in the Gallipoli campaign during World War 1. Since Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, the Regiment has served as Newfoundland's primary militia force. Though the Regiment hasn't deployed since WW1, her soldiers have served in combat. Members of the regiment have served on peacekeeping and combat missions to Cyprus, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan. On 30 AUG 10, Corporal Brian Pinksen became the regiment's first combat loss since World War One, when he was killed by an IED in Afghanistan.