| Post; Greatest military units of all time Pre Middle Ages - Persians under Cyrus the Great - Spartans at Thermopylae - Macedonians Army under Alexander the Great - Romans in almost every war/battle they fought - Carthaginian Army under Hannibal
- Visigothic heavy Cavalry at Adrianople in 378 and Chalons in 451 - The slave rebellion in Rome under Spartacus - Germanic tribial fighters at Teutoburg Forest - Huns under Attila Middle Ages - Vikings from 793 to 1066 - Koreans during the First Goryeo-Khitan War - Normans under William the Conqueror - Samurai in Japan - Muslims under Saladin during the 1st crusade - Knight Templar during the 1st crusade - Mongols under Genghis Khan - Scottish Army during their war for independence - Welsh Longbowmen - Teutonic Knights and Poles/Lithuanians in their various wars with each other Post Middle Ages - Samurai in Japan (again) - Polish Hussars at Kircholm - Russians under Peter the Great - Prussians under Frederick the Great Colonal/Napoleonic/WWI/other era - The British (built the worlds largest oversea’s empire enough said) - Roger’s Rangers during The French and Indian War - Continental Army during the American Revolution - South African Boers during the wars with Britian - French Grand Armee under Napoleon - Napoleon’s Imperial Guard - Russian Winter (during Napoleon’s invasion ) - Texans at the Alamo - Americans during the Mexican-American War - Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during US Civil War - Confederate Horsemen during US Civil War - Stonewall Brigade during US Civil War - Union XIV Corps at Chickamauga - Union V Corps during the Seven Days Battle - Prussians during Bismarck’s reign - Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War - Serbs during WWI - German 8th Army - German Sturmtruppen - French in WWI - The US “Lost Battalion” in Argonne Forest - Marines at Belleau Wood - Poles during the Soviet/Polish War WWII - Finns in Winter/Continuation/Lapland War - Wehrmacht in France and low countries during the 1940 invasion - RAF during the Battle of Britian - Afrika Korps and Desert Rats in the African theater - Soviet Snipers at Stalingrad - 62nd Army at Stalingrad (and later on as 8th Tank Army) - II SS Panzer Korps at Kharkov, Prochorovka and Market Garden - 82nd Airborne in Italian and Normandy Campiagns - FallshirmJaeger at Mount Cassino - Großdeutschland on the Eastern Front - 12th SS Panzer Division at Caen - British Paras during Market Garden - US Marines in Pacific Theater - US Navy at Midway - Japanese in Malaysia and Philippines - 1st Special Service Force in Italy - US Army Rangers at Normandy - 101st Airborne at Bastogne - Tuskegee Airmen in the air war over Europe - 6th Ranger Battalion in the Pacific War Post WWII - 1st Marine Division at Inch’on and Chosin - Chinese PVA during the first phase offensive in the Korean War - US 2nd Infantry Division during the May Massacre - 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam - Aussie/NZ SASR during the Vietnam War - IDF in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War - SAS/Paras in the Falkland War - Spetsnaz in Afghanistan - Iraqi Republican Guard in Iraq/Iran War (although they didn’t do to well later on…) - Task Force Ranger in Somilia - Chechens in the First Chechen War - Task Force 121 in GWOT Various gullrilia movements threwout the ages - Scotish in early part of the war to free Scotland from the English - Spainish fighting against Napoleon - Minutemen during the American revolution - South African Boers during the wars with Britian - Cubans fighting alongside Castro - PAVN/VC/Viet Minh in the Vietnam conflict - Hezbollah during the Civil War in Lebenon - Afghan tribial fighters (during the Soviet invasion) - Chechens in the second war with Russia - Iraqi insurgents (well some of them at least)
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