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| Adjective | 1. Coming next after the twenty-first in position.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "22nd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
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| 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry | 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army stationed in Fort Hood, Texas. Its soldiers saw considerable fighting in the 2003 war in Iraq. (references) | ||
| 22nd Carrier Air Group | The 22nd Carrier Air Group of the Fleet Air Arm was planned for formation late in World War II, but the surrender of Japan meant that it was never formed. (references) | ||
| 22nd Infantry Regiment | The embattled partition line is for the wars in which the regiment has taken part. The arrows stand for the five Indian campaigns it took part in; The sun in speldor was for the old Katipunan device in the Philippine Insurrection. (references) | ||
| 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | The 22nd New York Volunteer Infantry (not to be confused with the 22nd New York National Guard) was a volunteer regiment of the Union army in the American Civil War. The regiment was formed with 800 men in 1861 and was placed in a brigade along with the 24th New York, 30th New York, 84th New York (14th Brooklyn), and for a number of months, the 2nd United States Sharpshooters. The brigade would earn the title "Iron Brigade" in August of 1862 during its campaign in northern Virginia. Colonel Walter Phelps was chosen as the original commander of the regiment, and after his promotion to brigade commander, Major John McKie became regimental commander. The regiment suffered its first fatality when passing through Baltimore, when a man was killed by friendly fire during confusion among a mob. It would go on to serve in the Union Army's 1st Corps and 3rd Corps, and fight at the battles of 2nd Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. (references) | ||
| 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Division Maria Theresa | The 22.SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division Maria Theresa was a German Waffen SS cavalry division which saw action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Maria Theresa was composed, primarily, of Hungarian Volksdeutsche. (references) | ||
| Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury | Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury (born December 18 1952) is the son of John Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury and Nadine Crofton. (references) | ||
| German 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division | Created as 22.Infanterie-Division in 1935. One regiment participated in the invasion of Poland; the rest of the division stayed in garrison on the West Wall in case of a preemptive French attack. Retrained as 22.Luftlande-Infanterie-Division (Air Landing Infantry Division) for rapid tactical deployment to captured enemy airbases. Performed in that role during the invasion of the Netherlands, and afterward advanced into France operating as ordinary ground infantry. Though planned for use in its air-landing role for the Battle of Crete, it was replaced by another division at the last minute. Joined Army Group South in Operation Barbarossa (1941), attacking from Romania and operating exclusively as ordinary ground infantry. Helped storm Sevastopol in the Crimea (1942). (references) | ||
| German 22nd Panzer Division | The 22nd Panzer Division was formed September 1941 in France. It was transferred to the southern sector of the Eastern front February 1942. It was encircled and almost destroyed when it was encircled during the fighting near Stalingrad. It was disbanded in April 1943. (references) | ||
| Government of the 22nd Dáil | The 22nd Dáil was elected on June 11, 1981 and first met on June 30 when the 18th Government of Ireland was appointed. The 22nd Dáil lasted for 279 days. (references) | ||
| Members of the 22nd Dáil | This is a list of the members who were elected to the 22nd Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Republic of Ireland. These Teachtaí Dála (Members of Parliament) were elected in the 1981 General Election and served until February 1982. The Twenty-Second Dáil is the second shortest Dáil in history, lasting 252 days. (references) | ||
| Ministers of State of the 22nd Dáil | On June 30, 1981 the 17th Government of Ireland was officially appointed by Dáil Éireann. The new Fine Gael-Labour Party government was lead by An Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald. (references) | ||
| US 22nd Signal Brigade | The 22nd Signal Brigade is a MSE equipped Corps Signal Brigade. They provide Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4) support to The United States Army's V Corps. The 22nd Signal Brigade has 3 active duty Battalions and 1 separate Company. (references) | ||
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