Ludwig Burger, The Royal Prussian Army in its Latest Reorganization, Berlin 1865. Picture series.
Published by Mitscher & Röstell. 48 plates (here only 45) consisting of hand-colored and albumen-heightened lithographs on a clay ground.
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History of Formation and Uniforms of the Old Prussian Infantry 1740 - 86.
The following explanations are based in particular on a handwritten - hitherto unpublished - manuscript of the Münster military historian Hans Bleckwenn (* 15.12.1912 in Leipzig; † 10.07.1990 in Münster), which was made available to the author.
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E. Schnackenburg, Grenadiers on Horseback. A military-historical study. In: Yearbook for Army and Navy, Vol. 107, pp. 133 ff.
The Dragoon Regiment D III bore since 22.08.1714 the honorable designation "Grenadiers on Horseback." To outwardly document this distinction, the formation was equipped with special headgear. In addition to the usual hats for light and medium service, the regiment thereafter wore a kind of fusilier cap (also shown in the Dessau specification of 1729); later it appears to have worn the set of grenadier caps relinquished by No. 6 (shown in the Dessau specification of 1737). However, due to a serious failure of a squadron of the regiment on 27.02.1741 at Baumgarten, it lost this special headgear and had to surrender it to Infantry Regiment No. 42.
Organisation
A contribution to the history of the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment Duke of Brunswick (IR No. 21).
Infantry Regiment No. 21 was formed in 1713 from various regiments returning from Dutch service, namely surplus personnel from five regiments. The canton (replacement district) lay in the Principality of Halberstadt, namely — in part — the counties of Wernigerode, Ilsenburg and Hohenstein and the towns Quedlinburg, Gröningen, Wegeleben, Halberstadt, Wernigerode, Derenburg, Bleicherode, Schsa, Ellrich and Beneckenstein.