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The Lithuanian Dragoon Half-Regiment was a Lithuanian unit of the Russian Army that operated in Valka/Valga (now Latvia and Estonia, respectively) from late 1917 to early 1918 and which was also one of the first 20th-century Lithuanian military units, together with the Lithuanian Reserve Battalion.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Divizion, Dragoon, Estonia, Finnish Dragoon Regiment, German Empire, Imperial German Army, Kaunas Maironis University Gymnasium, Latvia, Lithuania, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Lithuanian Reserve Battalion, Lithuanians, Non-commissioned officer, Northern Front (Russian Empire), Operation Faustschlag, Prisoner-of-war camp, Pskov, Russia, Russian Army (1917), Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Squadron (army), Valga, Estonia, Valka, Võru, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, Wachtmeister, World War I, 12th Army (Russian Empire), 12th Cavalry Division (Russian Empire).

  2. 1917 in Russia
  3. Military history of Lithuania

Divizion

A divizion (dywizjon) (a word in several European languages, mostly Slavic) is a military unit in some armed branches, usually artillery and cavalry, being an equivalent of battalion.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Finnish Dragoon Regiment

The 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Imperial Russian Army which saw service during the later half of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th before disbanding following the October Revolution.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Imperial German Army

The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.

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Kaunas Maironis University Gymnasium

Kaunas Maironis Academic Gymnasium (Kauno Maironio universitetinė gimnazija), previously the Constituent Assembly Palace (Steigiamojo Seimo rūmai), is a historical building in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lithuanian Armed Forces

The Lithuanian Armed Forces are the military of Lithuania.

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Lithuanian Reserve Battalion

The Lithuanian Reserve Battalion was a Lithuanian unit of the Russian Army that operated in Smolensk from late 1917 to early 1918. Lithuanian Dragoon Half-Regiment and Lithuanian Reserve Battalion are 1917 in Russia and military history of Lithuania.

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Lithuanians

Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.

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Non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who does not hold a commission.

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Northern Front (Russian Empire)

The Northern Front (Северный фронт) was an army group of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War I. It was responsible for carrying out operations against the Central Powers along a front line that stretched 280 kilometers, from Riga in the north down to northern Belarus.

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Operation Faustschlag

The Operation Faustschlag ("Operation Fist Punch"), also known as the Eleven Days' War,Mawdsley (2007), p. 35 was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major offensive on the Eastern Front.

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Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war.

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Pskov

Pskov (p; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Army (1917)

In 1917, the Russian Army formally ceased to be the Imperial Russian Army when Emperor Nicholas II abdicated and the Provisional Government became the governing authority. Lithuanian Dragoon Half-Regiment and Russian Army (1917) are 1917 in Russia.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Squadron (army)

A squadron was historically a cavalry subunit, a company- or battalion-sized military formation.

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Valga, Estonia

Valga (Walk) is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County and Valga Parish.

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Valka

Valka (Walk) is a town and municipality in northern Latvia, on the border with Estonia along both banks of the river Pedele.

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Võru

Võru (Võro; Werro) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia.

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Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija

The Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija or VLE is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014.

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Wachtmeister

Wachtmeister (Wm; German for 'master-sentinel' or 'watch-master') is a military rank of non-commissioned officers (NCO) in Austria and Switzerland.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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12th Army (Russian Empire)

The 12th Army was a field army of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I that fought on the Eastern Front.

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12th Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

The 12th Cavalry Division (12-я кавалерийская дивизия, 12-ya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya) was a cavalry formation of the Russian Imperial Army.

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See also

1917 in Russia

Military history of Lithuania

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Dragoon_Half-Regiment