Colonel William M. Dye's brigade led the Union advance.

His brigade led the attack ordered by Lord Gough at the Battle of Chillianwalla on 13 January 1849.

Upon the Confederate surrender, Orme's brigade led the Union army into the fallen the city of Vicksburg.

With his brigade leading the army, William J. Worth was the first man on the beach.

Two brigades of the 2nd Division led the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in 1942.

On 27 March the brigade led the division's advance.

This brigade he led at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Zollicoffer's brigade led the advance out of the entrenchments intending to attack at dawn, but bad weather and muddy roads slowed their advance.

Lauzun's brigade led the French march from Rhode Island to Virginia in 1781.

Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged.