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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the See also:English use of the word See also:dates from the See also:early 17th See also:century)  , a unit in military organization commanded by a See also:major-See also:general, brigadier-general or See also:colonel, and composed of two or more regiments of See also:infantry, See also:cavalry or See also:artillery . The See also:British infantry See also:brigade consists as a See also:rule of four battalions (or about 4000 bayonets) with See also:supply, transport and medical See also:units attached; the cavalry brigade of two or three regiments of cavalry . An artillery " brigade " (See also:field, See also:horse, and heavy) is in See also:Great See also:Britain a smaller unit, forming a lieut.-colonel's command and consisting of two or three batteries . (See ARriy, ARTILLERY, INFANTRY, and CAVALRY.) The See also:staff of an infantry or cavalry brigade usually consists of the brigadier commanding, his aide-de-See also:camp, and the brigade-major, a staff officer whose duties are inter-mediate between those of an See also:adjutant and those of a general staff officer .

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