List of Free Corps
This is a list of "Free Corps" (German: freikorps), various military and/or paramilitary units raised from the civilian population.
Habsburg Monarchy
- Freikorps, pre-1754 German units
- Serbian Free Corps (1787–92)
- Patriot militias, called Free Corps, in Austrian Netherlands
Prussia
- Freiwilliges Feldjäger-Korps von Schmidt (1813–14), a volunteer Riflemen Corps that formed in late 1813
- Lützow Free Corps (1813–14), a voluntary force of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars
World War II
- British Free Corps (BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps), in the Waffen-SS World War II
- Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organisation formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies
- Free Corps Denmark (1941–43), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP)
Other
- Exercitiegenootschap, military organisation in the 18th century Netherlands
- Schutterij, a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands
Fictional
- In Shannara series of novels written by Terry Brooks, the Free Corps is a unit of the Border Legion of Callahorn and was led by Stee Jans; it appeared in The Elfstones of Shannara, helping to defend the Ellcrys against the Demons.
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