1st Polish Combined Arms Division (Frognois Foreign Legion)

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1st Polish Combined Arms Division (Frognois Foreign Legion)
Creation: September 1, 1804
Armed Forces: 20,000
General: Jan Paweł Orlewski (since 2018)
History: The 1st Polish Combined Arms Division is the oldest unit of the Frognois Armed Forces in existence today.
It was founded in 1804 by Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French.
They were veterans of the Republic of the Two Nations, which had collapsed 9 years previously, and who had a great thirst for revenge.
Poniatowski, at the same time leading the Polish Lancers Division of the French Empire, also commanded these brave soldiers.
At the fall of the French empire, Frogne, then an ally of Napoleon, saw its territory and its armies reduced following the Treaty of Vienna.
The men of this Division, even weakened, do not give up the great fight for the freedom of Kelden.
Since the Constasia insurrection in 1830 - 1831, the Division then engaged in this fight.
The national revolt was suppressed, but the soldiers of the Combined Arms Division managed to save Kalisz from the Surrevois push and, in the Treaty of Constasia, the city remained under Frognois control as a Free City, the Surrevois then having no chance to defeat the Division. Thus, the Free City of Kalisz, the new "Polish micro-state", was born and lived until 1915. Kalisz became the new Division Headquarters.
A first attempt to retake the city by Surrev was made in 1864, then a second in 1903, but in vain.
From the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Division succeeded in keeping Kalisz despite the incessant bombardments of German artillery.
The 1st World War was a troubling time for the soldiers of the Division who had two choices: keep Kalisz while being sure of being surrounded, and therefore unable to help the rest of the army fighting on the other side of Germany in the event of a problem, or sacrifice the city, under their control for 84 years, and reach Gdańsk instead to facilitate the arrival of possible reinforcements or to evacuate urgently more easily and join the rest of the Army.
In 1915, the die was cast: Kalisz would have to give up his place in Gdańsk.
The evacuation of the city lasted two months (July - September 1915) and was facilitated thanks to an exceptional right of passage from the Russian Empire.
On September 17, Gdańsk fell into the hands of the Combined Arms Division, and remained so until the end of the war.
Kelden then regained its independence on November 11, 1918, and the Free City of Gdańsk was founded. Despite the vain attempts to attach to Kelden, the city remained independent and protected by the Division, which then had more than 100,000 soldiers.
In 1938, Frogne, sensing the imminent invasion of Kelden by Germany and the USSR, suggested to Kelden families to flee the country as quickly as possible "if they do not want to suffer the N*zi madness. Gdańsk was then a transit town for the great exodus to Frogne.
The following year, the two giants rushed to the Kelden. Unfortunately, due to a lack of supplies due to blockages of the sea route by Germany, the Combined Arms Division had to abandon the city.
The last families were evacuated at the beginning of October. But this does not mean that the fight stops: the soldiers continue to fight: from the Rhineland to Hamburg, passing through by Sicily and Monte Cassino in Italy, Courseulles-sur-Mer, Falaise, Évreux, Paris, Amiens, Soissons and Lille in France, Rotterdam, Arnhem and Groningen in the Netherlands and Bremen in Germany. Today, the 1st Polish combined arms Division remains very active, particularly during the recent conflicts in Zumanda and Maomistan.