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| Designation = XLI Corps
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| Affiliation = [[Star League]]
| Parent Command = [[9th Army (Star League)|Ninth Army]]
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==Unit Description==
'''XLI Corps''' (or the Forty-first Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the [[Star League Defense Force]]. Prior to the collapse of the [[Star League]], it consisted of five [[division]]s, six independent [[regiment]]s and an independent [[Wing (Military Unit)|aero wing]].<ref name="SLp142">''The Star League'', p. 142</ref> At the time, it was the only Ninth Army Corps to contain five divisions.<ref name=fmsldf122>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 122</ref>

==History==
In [[2764]], XLI Corps was part of the [[9th Army (Star League)|9th Army]], assigned to District 2 of the [[Free Worlds League Military Region]]. The Forty-first put two of its divisions along the Free Worlds League's border with the [[Lyran Commonwealth]], and kept the other two closer to the interior of the League. They were constantly on-call against state sponsored pirates, but they hadn't participated in a large scale deployment.<ref name=fmsldf122/>

When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the [[Periphery]] erupted with the [[New Vandenberg Uprising]] and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in [[2765]], XLI Corps was deployed into the [[Periphery Military Region]] along with the rest of the Ninth Army.<ref name="SLp142"/>

The resulting combat and terrorist actions within the Periphery Military Region inflicted a substantial amount of damage on XLI Corps; not only was the 35th Jump Infantry Division lost along with four of the six independent regiments, the 218th Mechanized Infantry Division defected, joining the Periphery rebels.<ref name="SLp142"/>

The remaining units of XLI Corps went on to fight in the [[Hegemony Campaign]]; although the campaign resulted in the loss of the Marne Division and the remaining two independent regiments, more than two divisions of troops survived.<ref name="SLp142"/>

When [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] led the bulk of the [[Star League Defense Force|SLDF]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]], the majority from XLI Corps followed him, although the 104th Striker Regiment chose not to follow the rest of the Altair Division, instead remaining in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the service of the [[Draconis Combine]], while the 802nd Independent Aero Wing chose to join the [[Free Worlds League]].<ref name="SLp142"/>

==Officers==
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the XLI Corps (Star League)'''
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| [[Major General]]||[[Gisbert Beauchamp]]||[[2764]]<ref name="SLp142"/>
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
===2764===
====Divisions====
* [[245th BattleMech Division]]
* [[275th BattleMech Division]]
* [[172nd Mechanized Infantry Division]]
* [[218th Mechanized Infantry Division]]
* [[35th Jump Infantry Division]]

====Independent Regiments====
* [[30th Royal CAAN Marine Regiment]]
* [[51st Light Horse Regiment]]
* [[13th Hussar Regiment]]
* [[384th Striker Regiment]]
* [[387th Battle Regiment]]
* [[1st French Cavalry Regiment]]
* [[802nd Independent Aero Wing]]

==References==
<references />

==Bibliography==
*''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
*''[[The Star League]]''

[[Category:Star League Defense Force Corps|Corps, 0041st]]

XLI Corps (Star League) - Revision history

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