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Disbanded by the Taliban, the Afghan national soccer team was reorganized.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2016

Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors in the country's social and foreign policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disbanded after World War II, the S.A.S. was revived in 1952 to fight Communist insurgents in Malaya.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disbanded: The W.N.M. regiment left Edinburgh in July, 1814, and was disembodied at Norwich, 19th July. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William

The Negro population in 1784 estimated at about 3000 was included in the 28,347 of Disbanded Troops and Loyalists called New Inhabitants, Can.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various