Hessen-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 7 (1756)
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by name of the regiment owner / body infantry regiment / elector |
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 Schematic representation of the 1756 uniform at Kronoskaf |
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| active | 1700 to 1806/1866 |
| Armed forces | Hessen-Kassel Army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Tribe list | Hessen-Kassel |
| Trunk number | No. 7 (unofficial) |
The Hessen-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 7 was a military unit founded in 1700 as the regiment "Prinz Anhalt on foot" in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The regiment had different names.
history
In 1700 the regiment "Prince Anhalt on foot" was established. The first boss was Colonel Prince Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym . Colonel Kurt von Uffeln is named as the first commander from 1700 to 1706. In the War of the Spanish Succession , the regiment took part in the fighting in the Netherlands , on the Rhine , in Bavaria and Italy . So in 1704 in the battle of Schellenberg , in 1706 in the siege of Menen (Belgium) , in 1708 in front of Lille , in 1709 in front of Tournay, in 1710 in front of Donay and in 1712 in front of Quesnay.
In the War of the Austrian Succession , the association fought on the Weser , in the Netherlands, on the Rhine and Main and in Bavaria . In the spring of 1746 the regiment moved to Scotland to support the King of Great Britain , George II , in the fight against Charles Edward Stuart .
In the Seven Years' War , after returning from Scotland, the unit was deployed on the side of the Prussian Alliance troops against the units of the Imperial Army and fought on June 26, 1757 in the Battle of Hastenbeck , on August 15, 1758 at Rees , on October 10, 1758 at Lutterberg , on April 13, 1759 near Bergen , on August 1, 1759 in the battle of Minden and on August 30, 1762 near Nauheim .
After that, the regiment was shipped with the British crown to the American colonies due to the soldier trade under Landgrave Friedrich II , where it arrived in New York on August 17, 1776. Until 1783 the regiment was used in the fight against the insurgent colonists. Then it returned to Hessen-Kassel.
In 1789 the regiment was merged with the Landgraf regiment to form the "Leib-Infanterie-Regiment". The body regiment formed the 1st Battalion, the Landgraf regiment the 2nd Battalion.
When France declared war on Austria in 1792, Hessen-Kassel joined Austria and Prussia. This was followed by missions in the Valmy cannonade , the battle in front of the Friedberger Tor in Frankfurt am Main on December 2, 1792, during the siege of Mainz in 1793, and at Tourcoing on May 17, 1794.
After the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel was elevated to the position of Elector by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the regiment was renamed the 1st Elector of Hesse Infantry Regiment "Elector" .
After the occupation of the Electorate of Hesse by the Napoleonic troops that was Hessian army "on leave". On November 1, 1806, the "Elector" regiment broke up.
After the Battle of Leipzig , the soldiers of the reserve status were recalled on December 5, 1813, the regiment Elector and two musketeer -Bataillonen, a fusilier - battalion and two Grenadier - companies reformed. It fought in the reign of the Hundred Days, among other things: the storming of Charleville on June 29, 1815, the sabotage near Mohon on July 25, 1815 and on July 3–7. August 1815 in action near St. Julien.
In the German Confederation , the regiment was named 1st Line Infantry Regiment (1821), 1st Line Regiment Kurprinz von Hessen (1824), Leib Regiment (1831), 1st Infantry Regiment, Leib Regiment (1835), 1st Infantry Regiment Kurfürst ( 1856).
During the German War , the regiment was in the garrison of Mainz fortress . It did not take part in any combat operations.
After the annexation of Kurhessen in 1866 by Prussia , the 1st Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 81 was formed from the trunk of the regiment .
See also
literature
- Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel (Hrsg.): Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Calende . Orphans and Findelhaus, Kassel 1774 ( full text in the Google book search).
- 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 .
- Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- List of tribe and rank of the Electoral Hessian Army Corps from the 16th century to 1866, p.126f
Web links
- The regiment in the private project SYW (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hereditary Prince Friedrich Uniform Plate. Kronoskaf , accessed January 1, 2012 .
- ^ Unofficial numbering after Hans Bleckwenn and Rudolf Witzel.
