Editing 11th Royal Division

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| Designation    = Eleventh Royal Division
| formed         = [[2571]]
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| Affiliation    = [[Star League]]
| Parent Command = [[IV Corps (Star League)|IV Corps]]
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== History ==
The '''Eleventh Royal Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army. Formed as a part of [[IV Corps (Star League)|IV Corps]] during the creation of the [[SLDF]] in the beginning years of the [[Star League]], the Eleventh Royal Division served in the [[Taurian Concordat]] campaign from the beginning of [[Operation BULL RUN]] in [[2578]] until [[2582]];<ref name="H:RWp142">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 142, "Taurian Concordat Front (Jump-Off - 2585)"</ref> IV Corps was then reorganized with the Eleventh Royal Division forming one of the core units within [[Task Force MAILED FIST]], the Task Force assembled to implement [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the Star League intervention in the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] civil war.<ref name="H:RWp152">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 152, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-Off - 2587)"</ref>

=== Helbrent ===
By [[2582]] the Rim Worlds Republic had been in a state of civil war for six years. Located on Helbrent were the [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]], a formation that had remained loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]]. The Star League Defense Force had initiated Operation MAILED FIST in mid-[[2581]], but had been forced to change plans after a deep raid by the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers|Fourth Amaris Fusiliers]] had managed to strike the Lyran Commonwealth interior world of [[Alarion]].<ref name="H:RWp132+">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"</ref>

The result was the reorganization of the SLDF forces and their auxiliaries into three battlegroups, each responsible for the pacification of one of the three provinces that made up the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582-2590)"</ref> Helbrent and the Sixth Legionnaires were the first targets of the battlegroup assigned to pacifying the [[Timbuktu Province]], and the SLDF deployed Eleventh Royal Division at the time — to the battle for Helbrent.<ref name="H:RWp133A">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"</ref>

Combat operations began in July 2582, and proceeded far more quickly than the Eleventh had planned for, thanks to the Sixth Legionnaires choosing to deploy their heavy armor to contest the Eleventh's landing, a poor decision that led to the Eleventh quickly defeating the bulk of the Sixth. By the end of the third day after landing the Eleventh had notionally secured Helbrent, but the Royal Division found itself faced with another problem; the Eleventh's infantry forces were six weeks away from deploying, making keeping control of Helbrent difficult until there were enough boots on the ground to exercise effectively control of the captured territory.<ref name="H:RWp133HN">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133, "Helbrent to Nightwish (July 2582 - November 2584)"</ref>

=== Huesta ===
By late [[2584]] the SLDF had changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584.<ref name="H:RWp133HN"/>

The conquest of Huesta was one such example of a campaign that took longer than originally planned due to the level of resistance offered by the civilian population; [[Duke]] [[Narinder Selaj]] of Battle Group Timbuktu assigned the Eleventh Royal Division to conquering Huesta in [[2585]], but the conquest took six months before the last insurrections were put down, despite the lack of any significant [[Rim Worlds Army]] or [[Rift Republican Army]] units on the world at the time.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134, "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp152"/>

=== Timbuktu ===
Duke Selaj assigned the Eleventh Royal Division to the conquest of [[Timbuktu]] in [[2588]], along with all four regiments of the Draconis Auxiliary Corps.<ref name="H:RWp153">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"</ref> The main defensive force on Timbuktu was the [[7th Amaris Dragoons|Seventh Amaris Dragoons]], led by [[Colonel]] [[Samuel Macao]]. The first week of the campaign saw the elite Eleventh Royal and the brutal DCMS regiments smash their way through the bulk of the defenses prepared by Macao's forces, leading Macao to pull his troops back to the continent known as Hades, which at that point in time was a lightly populated continent with a number of mining complexes that the Seventh could use as prebuilt defenses.<ref name="H:RWp135">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 135, "Timbuktu (July 2588)"</ref>

While the Seventh could have drawn the campaign out substantially by switching to guerrilla warfare, the harsh treatment the civilian population of Timbuktu were undergoing at the hands of the Draconis Combine troops enraged Macao who launched a number of precipitous raids in retaliation that sorely weakened the Seventh. With the civilian population of Hades being small enough that it was effectively negligible for the SLDF, the Battle Group Timbuktu forces resorted to wholesale bombardment of the Seventh's positions; after nineteen days of sustained bombardment Macao surrendered the few surviving elements of the Dragoons, ending major combat actions on the planet on the 29th of July.<ref name="H:RWp135"/>

=== Here, Lackhove and Anywhere ===
With the capture of Timbuktu and the last of the worlds within the [[Timbuktu Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic the Eleventh Royal Division began operations in the [[Apollo Province]] under the overall command of [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]]. The Eleventh's first operation was the conquest of Here in late [[2591]] or early [[2592]]. The Star League forces successfully took control of Here, defeating the local militia forces, and remained in place as the local garrison until the Eleventh was redeployed for the invasion of [[Lackhove]] in [[2593]] and [[Anywhere]] in [[2594]], all operations conducted against local militia forces.<ref name="H:RWp139">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 139, "Bitter Harvests (2591-2596)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp153">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"</ref>

=== Steelton and Vulture's Nest ===
General Nathan Isaacson assigned two [[division]]s to the assault on Steelton in mid-[[2595]], a much larger force than the surviving elements of the [[5th Amaris Fusiliers|Fifth Amaris Fusiliers]] garrisoning the world; in one of the few actions where divisions from different [[corps]] fought alongside each other, the Eleventh Royal Division landed alongside the [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] from [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]] on Steelton.<ref name="H:RWp153">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"</ref> With the defeat of the Fifth Fusiliers and the capture of Steelton Task Force MAILED FIST had secured the last world controlling the approaches to Apollo<ref name="H:RWp139"/> although military operations continued; the Sixteenth remained on Steelton until the end of Operation MAILED FIST in late [[2596]], but the Eleventh redeployed in [[2596]] to capture the [[Vulture's Nest]] system, the last Republic world other than Apollo to be captured by the SLDF.<ref name="H:RWp153"/>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 11th Royal Division'''
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==Tactics==
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==Composition History==
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== Notes ==
It was confirmed by the author of [[Historical: Reunification War]] that in general, the Divisions listed within [[The Star League|the Star League sourcebook]] be traced back directly to those Divisions listed within Historical: Reunification War.<ref name="CGL:ATW05102011">''[http://www.classicbattletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,11015.0.html Ask The Writers: Star League Divisions: Reunification War to Liberation of Terra]''</ref> However, in [[2764]] there are three divisions listed as the 11th within the [[SLDF]]: the [[11th Royal BattleMech Division|Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division]], [[II Corps (Star League)|II Corps]],<ref name=SL141>''The Star League'', p. 141, "Eighth"</ref> the [[11th Infantry Division|Eleventh Infantry Division]], [[VIII Corps (Star League)|VIII Corps]] and the [[11th Mechanized Infantry Division|Eleventh Mechanized Infantry Division]], [[LI Corps (Star League)|LI Corps]].<ref name=SL143>''The Star League'', p. 143, "Tenth"</ref> It is not known which of these can trace their history back to the Eleventh Royal Division of the [[Reunification War]] era.

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

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