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| image = [[Image:Andurien Hussars -Brigade logo.png|191px|Brigade Insignia of the Andurien Hussars]]
| Designation = Third Andurien Hussars
| Formed = ca. 2750–2765
| Disbanded = Destroyed during the [[Second Succession War]]<ref name=2SWp95>''Second Succession War'', p. 95</ref>
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname = The Clasped Hands
| Affiliation = [[Capellan Confederation]]
| Parent Command = [[Andurien Hussars]]
| Sub-Command = 
}}

==History==
A relatively recently-formed [[brigade]] within the [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]], the genesis of the Andurien Hussars lay in the peace treaty brokered by the [[Terran Hegemony]] in [[2556]] that ended the [[Third Andurien War]]. The Andurien worlds were handed over to the [[Capellan Confederation]], and [[Chancellor]] [[Terrence Liao]] awarded the worlds full Commonality status as an attempt at reconciliation. The Andurien Hussars were established to be the military formation associated with this new Commonality.<ref name="FR:CC2765">''Field Report 2765: CCAF'', p. 8: "Andurien Hussars"</ref>

The general disarmament during the early years of the [[Star League]] saw the Andurien Hussars maintain just two active regiments, but after the order limiting the size of the [[Great House]] militaries was rescinded by the Star League council in the mid-twenty-eighth century the number of regiments within the Hussars expand significantly. The '''Third Andurien Hussars''' was one of these new regiments, raised alongside two sister regiments - the [[Fourth Andurien Hussars|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Andurien Hussars]] - to support the [[First Andurien Hussars]].<ref name="FR:CC2765"/>

The First Hussars had a reputation for putting the good of the Commonality ahead of themselves and for using the minimum necessary force when investigating crimes, earned during the first years of their deployment and maintained carefully throughout the two centuries since. Unfortunately, the Third rapidly earned itself a far less noble reputation almost immediately; recruited exclusively from the Andurien worlds, the Third were quickly the subject of rumors stating that the regiment had been compromised by the local mafia, staining the reputation of the entire brigade.<ref name="FR:CC2765"/>

Despite two hundred years of dedicated effort by the numerous commanders of the various regiments of Andurien Hussars, the Third Hussars found itself with a second difficult situation to manage after its founding; as a whole, the Andurien Hussars were generally well-regarded. Many of the personnel within the Andurien Hussars were still Sianese or Capellan in origin, although natives of the Andurien Commonality made up slightly more than half of the strength of the Hussars. However, while the average citizen of the Commonality regarded the other Hussars regiments as slightly foreign regiments imposed upon them by the Capellan government, those Sianese and Capellan soldiers within the Hussars were considered to be generally honorable warriors whilst those Andurien natives within the Hussars were regarded as undisciplined thugs and opportunists pandering themselves. This created an underlying feeling of tension that constantly bubbled between the Hussars and the local population even two centuries after the formation of the Hussars and affected the newly-raised Third Hussars directly.<ref name="FR:CC2765"/>

The unit was destroyed during the [[Second Succession War]].<ref name=2SWp95/>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 3rd Andurien Hussars'''
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==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
===2765===
'''Third Andurien Hussars'''

Rumored to be corrupt shortly after the founding of the regiment, the Third Hussars were rated as a green regiment of questionable loyalty in 2765 and were stationed on [[Viribium]].<ref name="FR:CC2765"/>

=== 2786–2821 ===
'''Third Andurien Hussars''' (Regiment/Green/Questionable))<ref name="FSWp135">''First Succession War'', p. 135: "Capellan Confederation Armed Forces (CCAF) - Deployment Table"</ref>
:- At this point in time the Third was an assault-weight regiment operating at full strength and was stationed on Viribium.<ref name="FSWp135"/> In 2821 the unit was operating at just below one-third of full strength.<ref name="FSWp135"/>

=== 2830 ===
'''3rd Andurien Hussars''' (Regiment/Regular/Questionable)<ref name=2SWp95 />
: Note: At this point in time the heavy-weight unit was stationed on [[Viribium]] with an operational readiness of 51 percent.<ref name=2SWp95/>The unit was destroyed during the war.<ref name=2SWp95/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Report 2765: CCAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''


[[Category: Capellan Confederation Commands|Andurien Hussars, 003rd]]