Hessen-Darmstadt district regiment
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Hessen-Darmstadt district regiment or by owner |
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| active | 1697 to 1796 |
| owner | 1697 Prince Karl Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt , 1707 unoccupied, 1709 Prince Franz Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt , 1716 Count Philipp Karl von Erbach-Fürstenau, 1735 unoccupied, 1738 Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Trunk number | Ticino: 1697/2 |
The Hessen-Darmstadt district regiment was a military unit that was established in Gießen in 1697 and was part of the Imperial Army as part of the Upper Rhenish District .
Regimental owner
- 1697–1707: Prince Karl Wilhelm of Hessen-Darmstadt
- 1709–1716: Prince Franz Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1716–1735: Count Philipp Karl von Erbach-Fürstenau
- 1738–1782: Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt
Mission history
- 1701–1714: Participation in the War of the Spanish Succession , particularly in the battles for Landau in the Palatinate , under the regimental commander Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld (1653–1709)
- 1733–1735: Participation in the War of the Polish Succession
- 1747–1749: in Dutch service
- 1756–1763: Participation in the Seven Years War
- 1796 incorporated into the "Landgraf" regiment as 2nd battalion
literature
- Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 , p. 167 ff .
Web links
- Hessen-Darmstadt Line Infantry Organization. Kronoskaf the Virtual Time Machine, accessed December 28, 2011 (private wiki project).
Individual evidence
- ↑ This numbering follows consistently the tables of Ticino. Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .