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| Designation = Fifth Army Group
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| Disbanded =
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| Nickname = Army Group Davion
| Affiliation = Star League
| Parent Command = [[Star League Defense Force]] (2765);<ref name="H:LOTv1p42"/><br>[[Task Force Confederation (Star League)|Task Force Confederation]] (2772)<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
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==Overview==
The '''Fifth Army Group''' - also known as '''Army Group Davion''' - was the [[Star League Defense Force]] Army Group formed to command the various SLDF Armies responsible for the [[Federated Suns]] Military Region.<ref name="H:LOTv1p37">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 37: "Military Regions and Army Groups"</ref>

==History==
In common with the other SLDF Army Groups, the Fifth Army Group was commanded by a [[General]] who answered only to the SLDF High Command and the [[First Lord]] of the [[Star League]]. By the beginning of the Periphery Uprising, Army Group Davion was responsible for the [[2nd Army (Star League)|Second]], [[3rd Army (Star League)|Third]] and [[4th Army (Star League)|Fourth Armies]]. When the [[Periphery Uprising]] saw the mass deployment of the majority of the SLDF into the territorial states, the Third and Fourth Armies were deployed as part of that mass mobilization. This left the Fifth Army Group with just one active Army, the Second, but 29 assorted [[regiment]]s of troops were transferred from the [[1st Army (Star League)|First Army]] to the Second, which was now responsible for the entire Federated Suns Military Region alone.<ref name="H:LOTv1p42">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 42: "Second Army"</ref>

As part of the preparations for [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]], [[Commanding General of the Star League Defense Force|Commanding General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] mobilized the Fifth Army Group for the campaign.<ref name="H:LOTv1p37"/> The Second Army was transferred to the [[19th Army Group (Star League)|Nineteenth Army Group]] while the [[5th Army (Star League)|Fifth]] and [[18th Army (Star League)|Eighteenth Armies]] formed the new core of the [[5th Army Group (Star League)|Fifth Army Group]]. The Fifth Army Group was assigned to Task Force Confederation, along with the [[17th Army Group (Star League)|Seventeenth]], [[22nd Army Group (Star League)|Twenty-second]], and [[24th Army Group (Star League)|Twenty-fourth Army Groups]].<ref name="H:LOTv1p120">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', pp. 120–121: "Operation CHIEFTAIN Star League Defense Forces Order of Battle"</ref><ref name="H:LOTv1p45">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 45: "Eighteenth Army"</ref>



== Composition History ==
=== 2765 ===
* [[2nd Army (Star League)|Second Army]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p42"/>
* [[3rd Army (Star League)|Third Army]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p42"/>
* [[4th Army (Star League)|Fourth Army]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p42"/>

=== 2766 ===
* Second Army<ref name="H:LOTv1p42"/>

=== 2772 ===
* [[5th Army (Star League)|Fifth Army]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[XXIV Corps (Star League)|XXIV Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[LV Corps (Star League)|LV Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[LX Corps (Star League)|LX Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
* [[18th Army (Star League)|Eighteenth Army]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[XLV Corps (Star League)|XLV Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[LXIV Corps (Star League)|LXIV Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
:* [[LXVII Corps (Star League)|LXVII Corps]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>
* [[8th Volunteer Brigade (Star League)|Eighth Volunteer Brigade]]<ref name="H:LOTv1p120"/>

==References==
<references/>

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''

[[Category: Star League Defense Force Commands - Army Group|Army Group, 05th]]

5th Army Group (Star League) - Revision history

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