Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 10 (1806)
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
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.