Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 10 (1806)

Regiment on foot & name of owner
active	1683 to 1806 (surrender)
Country	Electorate of Brandenburg / Prussia
Branch of service	infantry
Former locations	Herford , Bielefeld
Origin of the soldiers	Originally East Prussia , Grafschaft Ravensberg , z. T. Principality of Minden
Nickname	"The yellow regiment"
owner	1683 Alexander von Kurland , 1686 Ferdinand (Kettler) von Kurland , 1689 Friedrich von Heiden , 1703 Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel , 1714 Georg von Hessen-Kassel , 1730 Dietrich von Anhalt-Dessau , 1750 Dietrich Erhard von Knobloch , 1757 Gottlob Ernst von Pannewitz , 1759 Friedrich Wilhelm von der Mosel , 1768 Eggert Christian von Petersdorff , 1781 Sylvius Ferdinand von Stwolinsky , 1787 Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmund von der Marwitz , 1788 Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg , 1799 Wilhelm Albrecht von Burghagen , 1799 Ehrenreich Wilhelm Gottlieb von Besser , 1803 Karl Alexander von Wedell
Tribe list	Old Prussian infantry regiments
Trunk number	No. 10
Wars & major battles	War of Spanish Succession , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years' War , Napoleonic Wars

The infantry regiment with the later number No. 10 was one of the oldest Brandenburg-Prussian regiments. It was founded in 1683 as Kurland on foot and was based in the Westphalian county of Ravensberg .

General story

A first battalion was recruited for Prince Alexander of Courland in East Prussia in May 1683 . On January 21, 1685 a second battalion formed a new "Regiment Kurland" to use it in the Great Turkish War . In 1689 a battalion was handed over to the Dohna Regiment on foot . It received access through companies of the Spaen regiment on foot . In 1702 the regiment returned soldiers, this time to the Westphalian regiment Schlabrendorf on foot .

Garrison, replacement and social conditions

Originally from Kurland / East Prussia , the regiment was garrisoned in the Westphalian county of Ravensberg from 1714 : one battalion each in Bielefeld and Herford . It got its replacement from the County of Ravensberg, partly also from the neighboring Principality of Minden .

evaluation

The regiment was one of the average good regiments in the Seven Years' War. Frederick II described his two Westphalian regiments (later No. 9 & 10) as "rough but reliable". The regiment was "worn out" especially in the "Russian battles" Kunersdorf and Kay and was hardly ever used primarily, but nevertheless retained the benevolence of the king.

Whereabouts and succession

The regiment disbanded on October 16, 1806 by surrendering in Erfurt .

Uniform, equipment

In the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with yellow sleeves and red skirts and white braids on the chest. The cap of the winged grenadiers was yellow, gold brass fittings with a yellow tuft. The regimental flag was pale sea green.

See also

• List of infantry regiments of the Old Prussian Army

literature

• Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume I, pp. 89ff.
• Karl Friedrich Pauli : Some news from the current Mosel Regiment. In: Lives of great heroes of the present war , Volume 8, Halle 1763, pp. 57–74

Web links

• Private English-language project on the Seven Years War: Here No. 10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753 - 1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume I, p. 89.