Voshan Army

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Voshan Army
Voshansche Leger vlag.png
Ensign of the Voshan Army
Active1 July 1895 – 18 November 1913
Allegiance Atmora
BranchArmy
SizeVoshan War II: ~215,000
Garrison/HQGHK Vosha
Commanders
Commander-in-ChiefAlbertus Henricus Wiese (first)
Field Marshal Leonard Claeys van Malfeyt
Chief of the General StaffBoudewijn Wychmink (first)
Elco Mannessen(last)
Notable
commanders
Gertjan Pieter Cerfontain

The Voshan Army (Dutch: Voshansche Leger; Voshanskya: Voshanske Armee; Vozhski: Vožskaja Armija), was the colonial militia maintained by Atmora in it's colony of the Vosha Protectorate, from the 1890s till the end of the colony in 1913. At the outbreak of the Vozhsk War of Independence, the Voshan Army was put under the command of the Army of Vozh, the combined militaries of Atmoran Imperial forces in Vozh. The Voshan Army had it's own airforce the Royal Voshan Army Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtvaartdienst van t' Voshansche Leger, KLV-VL), along with it's own gendarmerie tasked with counter-insurgency operations the Royal Voshan Marchaussee (Koninklijke Voshansche Marechaussee, KVMAR).

History

Princely states armies

Voshan militia

Second Voshan War

Order of battle, 12 December 1913

Voshansche Leger, commanded by Field Marshal Elco Mannessen

Voshansche 1 Leger, field army commanded by General Maurits ten Broeke

Koninklijke Voshansche Marechaussee, gendarmerie commanded by Lieutenant General Baron Sigmund van Doornbosch

Korps Marechaussee te Vosha, field army sized formation commanded by Lieutenant General Viscount Youri van Wietmarschen

Korps Speciale Marechaussee, special forces commanded by Brigadier General Louwrens Frederiksen

Koninklijke Luchtvaartdienst van t' Voshansche Leger, aviation branch commanded by Lieutenant General Volkert Boerselman

See also