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Schnackenburg, The Freikorps of Frederick the Great. A contribution to Prussian military history, in: Supplement to the Militärisches Wochenblatt 1883, 311 ff.

Schnackenburg, The Freikorps of Frederick the Great. A contribution to Prussian military history, in: Supplement to the Militärisches Wochenblatt 1883, 311 ff., supplemented with illustrations, e.g. by drawings of the tin-figure collector Franz Gauker (+).

Jäger of the Le Noble Free Battalion (disbanded after the Seven Years' War). Knötel d. J., Series 10, 1 plate in German Uniforms. Album: The Age of Frederick the Great, Sturm-Zigaretten Dresden, 1932.
Jäger of the Le Noble Free Battalion (disbanded after the Seven Years' War). Knötel d. J., Series 10, 1 plate in German Uniforms. Album: The Age of Frederick the Great, Sturm-Zigaretten Dresden, 1932.
Musketeer from the Free Battalion Quintus Icilius. Drawing by Franz Gauker.
Musketeer from the Free Battalion Quintus Icilius. Drawing by Franz Gauker.

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