Electorate of Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 2 B

Infantry Regiment 2-B "Fabrice"
active	1717 to 1803 ( Artlenburg Convention )
Country	Hanover
Former locations	Osnabrück , Minden and Neustadt
owner	Joachim Heinrich von Langen (1717), Idel Jobst von Vincke (1722), Christian Ludwig von Krough (1740), Georg Philipp von Fabrice (1752), von Scheele (1757)
motto	NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDE
Tribe list	List of the regiments of the Electorate of Brunswick and Lüneburg
Trunk number	1665/8 ( Ticino ) - LR IIB ( Bleckwenn ) - 1783 officially Infantry Regiment No. 2
Butcher	War of Polish Succession , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years War , Coalition Wars Klausen (1735), Hastenbeck (1757), Krefeld (1758), Minden (1759), Vellinghausen (1759), Wilhelmsthal (1762), Lutterberg (1762)

The second Infantry Regiment or Kurhannoversche Infanterieregiment IR 2-B (1728) was an association of infantry of the Electorate of Hanover from around 1728 to 1803.

Takeover, amalgamation, naming

The regiment was established in 1717 as the "Regiment von Langen " of the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück . It was not until 1728, after the death of Prince-Bishop Ernst August, that the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg took it over into his army and in 1731 it was enlarged by two companies.

The nomination is initially made after the respective owner until his or her departure due to retirement or death. So it was named after Colonel from 1740, later Major General Christian Ludwig von Krough until his death, then from 1752 after Colonel Georg Philipp von Fabrice (retired in 1757) and then in 1757 until the merger on November 27, 1774 after Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele . In 1768 it was led as a battalion by Prince Friedrich and in 1774 as the "Regiment Prinz Friedrich" with Infantry Regiment No. 2-A merged as the first battalion into a combined regiment, after which it together with the former regiment No. 2-A was commanded by Ernst August von Meding . In 1783, the combined regiment was given the number 2, or the naming of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which it retained until its dissolution in 1803.

Campaigns and skirmishes

Position of the Hanoverians near Klausen in 1735

War of the Polish Succession

• 1734–1735 with imperial troops on the Rhine border against France, 1735 battle near Klausen .

War of the Austrian Succession

• In 1743 the regiment was attached to the reserve in the Hanau camp. In 1744 and 1745 it stood on the Rhine and in 1746 it returned to Hanover. In 1747 it was sent to the Netherlands, in 1748 it took part in a battle near Rosenthal in which Captain von Grothaus was fatally wounded.

Seven Years War

• In May 1756 the regiment was shipped as part of a Hanoverian contingent of 12 battalions on board 21 British transports in Stade to Great Britain for national defense there. On May 22nd, arrival in England and march to Canterbury, from August to a newly established camp in Coxheath near Maidstone , where it took winter quarters until the return journey at the end of February 1757.

• March 1757 Return to the garrison places from Cuxhaven. In April, the regiment marched to Hameln and then rejoined the army, which gathered near Bielefeld to counter the French invasion of Hanover. On July 26, the regiment took part in the Battle of Hastenbeck , where it was deployed on the right wing under the command of General Block. It was originally placed near a watchtower and suffered heavy losses. In August the regiment, under the command of General von Hardenberg, defended the pass near Oldersberg and covered the retreat of the Allied army. In December it took part in the expedition against Celle .

Scheele Regiment

• In March 1758, during the Allied winter offensive in West Germany, the regiment was part of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig's army , which successfully besieged Minden. Then on May 26th the regiment was with Ferdinand's main force in the camp of Nottuln . On May 31, it accompanied Ferdinand on his offensive on the west bank of the Rhine. On June 12th the regiment was in action near Rheinberg . On June 23, the regiment took part in the battle of Krefeld , where it was initially deployed in the center of the brigade of Lieutenant General von Oberg (6 battalions). After the battle the regiment pursued the French as far as Roermond . It then rejoined the army, which withdrew to the Rhine and then camped near Drensteinfurt . On October 24th the regiment had to withdraw to Munster. In November it was posted at Olfen .

• On February 9, 1759, the regiment moved into winter quarters in the Diocese of Osnabrück. In April it took it under the command of General von Hardenberg Canton near Erwitte . On May 26, she was transferred to a nearby camp. In June the regiment was part of the main army under the command of Duke Ferdinand. On June 3rd, under the command of the Hereditary Prince of Braunschweig , it took part in the surprise attack on a French outpost in Elberfeld . On August 1, the regiment took part in the battle of Minden , where it was deployed in the first line of the fourth column under Major General von Scheele . The regiment captured two standards and pursued the defeated French as far as Krofdorf . On the night of September 15, it drove out the Chasseurs de Fischer posted in Wetter, together with three British cavalry squadrons, under the command of the Hereditary Prince . The regiment then took up quarters in Dorlar .

• In January 1760, the regiment marched to relieve the British cantons in Tillerburg . On June 25th it took part in the Neustadt affair and on July 25th in the battle near Wolfhagen .

• In May 1761 the regiment took part in actions in Linsingen and Fritzlar . On July 16, it took part in the Battle of Vellinghausen , where it was affiliated with the reserve. On August 31, as part of the Munster garrison under General von Kielmannsegg, it attacked the French in Schapdetten and Roxel , but had to withdraw under the protection of the Munster cannons.

• Until May 23, 1762 the regiment of the Allied main army was affiliated with the division of Lieutenant General von Gilsa . On June 24th the regiment took part in the Battle of Wilhelmsthal . On July 23, it fought near Lutterberg and captured a cannon and a Saxon grenadier company. It lost Lieutenant von Holstein (killed) and Lieutenant Colonel Scharnhorst (seriously wounded). In September it advanced to the siege of Marburg , and in November it took garrison in Osnabrück.

uniform

2. Regimental flag

Grenadier cap

uniform

Musketeers wore a black tricorn hat with a silver trim and a branch of oak leaves, three yellow / red pompoms and a black cockade as headgear . Grenadiers wore a grenadier cap according to the British pattern with a small front flap, red front and yellow decorations (crowned shield with the initials GR in the middle of the Order of the Garter ), as well as a small white flap with a jumping horse with the motto nec aspera terrent . The back comprised the red cap sack with a pale-colored bottom, all decorated with white trim.

A long red skirt and paille-colored trousers were worn. The color of the badge on the cuffs and lapels was pale-colored (pale straw yellow), as were the borders (each with 7 pewter buttons and white buttonholes). Under the borders 2 pewter buttons and 2 white buttonholes. The uniform skirt had horizontally arranged pockets with 2 pewter buttons and 2 white buttonholes.

See also

• List of the regiments of Kur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg

literature

• Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms 1753–1786 . Volume III: Mounted Troops. Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 .
• Christoph Girtanner: Political Annals. Second volume. JF Unger, Berlin 1793, pp. 103-104.
• Peter Hofschroer: The Hanoverian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (= Men-at-Arms. 206). Osprey Publishing 1989, ISBN 0-85045-887-0 .
• Joachim Niemeyer, Georg Ortenburg (ed.): The Hanoverian Army 1780–1803 - The “Gmunden Magnificent Work” Part II. Published on behalf of the German Society for Heereskunde e. V. and the KLIO. Publishing house Bernh. Vogel, Beckum 1981.
• Joachim Niemeyer , Georg Ortenburg (ed.): The Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg Army in the Seven Years War. In: The “Gmunden magnificent work”. Beckum 1976.
• Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 14, Historical Association for Lower Saxony, 1903, p. 128.
• Matthias Rohles: Seven times the king. Great Britannian and Elector Princes. Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg state calendar ... to the 1769th year of Christ. printed by JG Berenberg, Lauenburg 1768, p. 78.
• Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg: Illustration of the chur-Hanoverian army uniforms: a brief history of the churhannover. Troops . Hanover / Leipzig 1791. (Reprint: Schlüter, Hanover 1979); P. 39
• L. von Sichart: history of the royal. hannov. Army 1756–1789 , Volume 3, 1870, pp. 33 ff.
• Accurate presentation of all electors. Hanöverischen Army for the actual knowledge of the uniform of each regiment: In addition to the attached history, from which news is given of the foundation, the chiefs of the Staercke, and the most important deeds of each regiment. Raspe, Nuremberg 1763 ( uni-halle.de ).

Web links

• Kronoskaf website on regimental history in the Seven Years War

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Raspe (Nuremberg 1763), p. 21 ( uni-halle.de , inspection May 11, 2020)
2. ^ Teresa S. McMillin: Guide to Hanover Military Records, 1514-1866, on Microfilm at the Family History Library . Lind Street Research Publisher (Inverness, Illinois 2014); P. 141 ( books.google.de ). ISBN 9781312130296
3. ↑ cf. Raspe (1763) Plate 21 ( uni-halle.de )