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Formation and Uniform History of the Old Prussian Cavalry 1740 - 86 - Part I - Introduction
Friedrich Wilhelm I left the following mounted troops (1740):
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E. Babel, The Old Prussian Army before 1806. Its Composition and Its Nature. Oldenburg n.d.
Transcript. To be continued.
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Curt Jany, Military Reminiscences of Ansbach Bayreuth (taken from the Hohenzollern Yearbook).
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Frederick the Great and his influence on the development of the Prussian cavalry in the Silesian Wars.
Neue Militärische Blätter, 1884, pp. 437 ff.
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The Prussian Army under Frederick William I (1713 - 40) - Chapter 3 - The Infantry
The Prussian army was a land force, the core of which was the foot troops. According to a "Specification" of 24.07.1713 the old Prussian army comprised 255 infantry companies with 32,895 men and 60 cavalry companies and 45 dragoon companies with 8,748 men (each including non-commissioned officers and excluding the musicians), i.e. infantry and cavalry stood in relation to one another as 4:1. In addition there were the garrison troops, the artillery and the cadet institutions. In the course of the systematic strengthening of the army the infantry grew as follows: 21,746 (1713), 35,134 (1715), 48,967 (1731), 52,391 (1739); similarly the cavalry was increased: 7,737 (1713), 9,914 (1715), 15,876 (1731), 17,842 (1739).
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Erwin Dette, Frederick the Great and His Army. Inaugural dissertation, Parts I and II, Göttingen 1915.
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The infantry and cavalry regiment, battalion, or the infantry company or the cavalry squadron.
A contribution to the formation and organizational history of the old Prussian army.
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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.
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A contribution to the history of the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Brunswick-Öls (IR No. 12).
The Infantry Regiment No. 12 was formed - from detachments of seven field regiments - in 1685 in Potsdam and initially bore the name Markgraf Philipp.
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The Prussian Army under Frederick William I (1713–40) - "The Tall Lads" - on the History of the Famous Guard Regiment
Besides No. 3, the King's Regiment (No. 6) was the second infantry unit with an increased establishment. Even before the standing armies were formed, princes raised special formations for the protection of their person, some of which as early as the 16th and 17th centuries wore uniform dress and, above all, displayed splendid clothing; examples include the Swiss Guard of the Papal States (established 1506), the Royal Bodyguard (Trabant Guard) in England (established 1485), the Royal Noble Guard in Spain (established 1646) and the Royal Musketeer Corps in France (established 1622). The designation ‘guard’ became generally customary for these body and protective guards (Fr. garde = to protect, guard, watch).
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The Prussian Army under Frederick William I (1713 - 40) - Chapter 5 - The Cavalry
When Frederick William I ascended the throne in 1713, he found 97 cavalry companies (house troops = Garde du Corps and Gens d`armes and 13 regiments, as well as 1 free company) with 7,737 men (= 3,791 Reuter and 3,946 dragoons).
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