Organic history of large units (1475 – 2018)

Part One: Large Temporary Units

By Fernando Mogaburo López

Chief Cavalry Non-Commissioned Officer

Preliminary note

This research work was submitted to the 18th call for the Hernán Pérez del Pulgar award (2017) with the title Happy birthday, my brigade! As responsible for the publication of the award-winning work, the Training and Doctrine Command authorized the author, with prior consent of the jury, to modify its title and original format. In order to comply with the rules of the call, all the tables had been brought together in an independent annex, in double column. Once this condition disappeared, it was preferred to insert them in the corresponding place in the body of the document and increase the typography to facilitate its reading, hence the number of pages has doubled. The title has been changed in homage to Clonard, since his magnum opus dedicated to the organic history of small units was published precisely the same year that the first permanent brigades and divisions were born: 1859.

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