Square Division

A Square division (English "Square Division"), or 4-membered Division is a term for a military unit in the starch division , which consists of four infantry - regiments there.

designation

The name Karee Division comes from the military name Karree . In a square, a military unit, usually battalion strength , is positioned in a square. Since the first military units called divisions consisted of four regiments, setting up a square division can be thought of as a square, with one regiment on each side of the square.

history

Divisions in the current sense, both as a permanent administrative unit and as an independently operating large unit of an army, emerged as a result of the French Revolution , under the influence of the First Coalition War . In the following years, other European countries took over the division of their armies into divisions. Usually several regiments were placed under one division.

It was not until the First World War that the number of regiments in many European armies was reduced to three. The process of conversion lasted worldwide until World War II , in which the US Army was the last army to reduce its divisions to three regiments. In English-speaking countries, a distinction was made between the divisions with the terms Square Division for a division with 4 regiments and Triangular Division ( Triangular Division ) for a division with 3 regiments.