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==History==
===Founding===
During the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], the planet [[Tanith]] was called on to raise [[Imperial Guard Regiment|regiments]] for the [[Astra Militarum]] for the first time in its history. Originally, was the people of Tanith were tasked to contribute [[Tanith Regiments|three regiments]] for the [[Imperial Guard]]: the Tanith 1st, 2nd and 3rd of Tanith - totalling 6,000 men and a small number of vehicles and artillery pieces, to be commanded by [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]].{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|2b}}
On the very night of the regiments' Founding ceremony, however, disaster struck: a [[Chaos]] splinter fleet that had slipped through the [[Imperial Navy]] blockade arrived in the [[Tanith system]], which was practically defenseless. Gaunt quickly decided that Tanith could not be saved, and, instead of allowing the [[guardsmen]] to engage in a futile defense of their homeworld, ordered as much of the men and equipment evacuated off-planet as possible before the Chaos ships arrived. In the attack that followed, Tanith and the majority of its people were immolated.{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|1d}} The remnants of the three regiments, some 3,500 Guardsmen{{Fn|2b}}, were formed into a single [[regiment]], the '''Tanith First and Only'''{{Fn|1d}}, with Gaunt promoting two members of a delegation sent to confront him, [[Colm Corbec|Corbec]] and [[Elim Rawne|Rawne]], into its [[colonel]] and [[major]] respectively.{{Fn|2b}}
