I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
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Merriam-Webster
— a large body of troops
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Macmillan
— a large group of soldiers, larger than a battalion
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Collins
— A brigade is one of the groups which an army is divided into.
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brigades
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1 use of ‘brigade’ in A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle