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During the siege of Van there were 20,000 Armenian volunteer units serving in the Russian army. [7] The Russian army entered Van on 16 May 1915. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Later on 15 October, under heavy fight around the region Lake Van , these battalions had lost five hundred Armenian soldiers and there were more than twelve hundred wounded or missing.
The term fedayee was originally used during the Armenian national movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Still, it was also used to refer to the Armenian irregular forces in the early 1990s when the dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh was turning into the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
It was led by Andranik Ozanian, who was the commander of Armenian auxiliary troops in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps within the Bulgarian army. [1] (Andranik Ozanian#Balkan Wars) 1914-17, World War I, Armenian volunteer units were employed in the Russian Imperial Army. Antranik also in fought in the First World War fought as ...
The Arabo Volunteer Detachment (Armenian: «Արաբո» կամավորական ջոկատ) or Arabo Battalion was a paramilitary Armenian volunteer unit during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, composed of Armenians mainly from Armenia and Karabakh, as well as Armenians from abroad.
Yerkrapah Volunteer Union (Armenian: «Երկրապահ» կամավորական միություն, ԵԿՄ «Yerkrapah» kamavorakan miut'yun, YeKM) or Yerkrapah Union of Veterans, meaning Defenders of the Land, is an Armenian non-governmental group that consisted of 6,000 veterans of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, formed by Vazgen Sargsyan. [5]
The Armenian Legion (French: Légion Arménienne) was a volunteer unit that was raised by the Allied Powers to serve in the Middle East Theatre during World War I.Trained and led by French army commanders, the Légion d'Orient (Eastern Legion), as the unit was originally known, was created in 1916, its ranks chiefly drawn from Levantine and Armenian exiles and refugees from the Ottoman Empire.
In September 2020, during a previous war in which Azerbaijan seized the outer areas of the enclave, including its major towns of Shushi and Hadrut, I had watched helplessly from afar, yearning to ...
The Armenian Legion (German: Armenische Legion; Armenian: Հայկական լեգիոն, romanized: Haykakan legion) was a military unit in the German Army during World War II. It primarily consisted of Soviet Armenians , who wanted to fight the Soviets for an independent Armenia and commanded by General Drastamat Kanayan .