13th Light Brigade (Netherlands)
The 13th Light Brigade is one of the three combat brigades of the Royal Netherlands Army, the other ones being 11th Airmobile Brigade and 43rd Mechanised Brigade. The brigade is a fully motorised brigade, equipped with Fennek, Boxer and Bushmaster wheeled, armoured vehicles.
Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene in the Hague during Prinsjesdag in 2008
13th Light Brigade personnel in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 2018
The Royal Netherlands Army is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world. It fought in the Napoleonic Wars, World War II, the Indonesian War of Independence and the Korean War, as well as served with NATO on the Cold War frontiers in West Germany from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Maurice of Orange as portrayed by Michiel van Mierevelt, between c. 1613–1620.
William II of the Netherlands at the Battle of Quatre Bras.
Soldiers on guard in the inundated area of the Dutch Water Line during the mobilisiation of the army in 1939.
Soldiers of the 15th Infantry Regiment advancing on East-Java in 1948, the Bren-gunner adjusts his sights.
