Slavonian Border Infantry Regiment No. 8 (Gradiskaner)
The Slavonian Border Infantry Regiment No. 8 (Gradiskaner) or Slavonian Gradiscaner Border Infantry Regiment No. 67 was a border regiment of the Habsburg Monarchy .
history
The regiment was founded in 1747 by Lieutenant Field Marshal Franz Anton Leopold Pontz as Slavonski Gradiscaner Grenz-Infantry on the Slavonian military border near the Gradiška fortress . When it was set up, the regiment comprised two battalions of five companies each , a total of 5,600 men. The unit's regiment settlement was initially named Friedrichsdorf after the first regimental leader Friedrich Schmidt. In 1750 the settlement was renamed Nova Gradiska and is now a town with around 14,000 inhabitants. The Slavonian military border was part of the Habsburg military border against the Ottoman Empire . It was divided into three regiments.
- 7th Broder Regiment ( Slavonski Brod ) (1769: No. 66)
- 8th Gradiskan Regiment (Nova Gradiška) (No. 67)
- 9th Petrovaradin Regiment (No. 68)
From 1751 the regiment consisted of two grenadier companies and four battalions of fusiliers . From 1756 to 1762 it fought in the Seven Years' War in the battles of Kolin , Leuthen , Hochkirch , Landshut and Reichenbach . In 1758 the later Field Marshal Hieronymus Ljubibratich von Trebinja led the regiment.
In 1769 the regiment was renamed Slavonski Gradiscaner Frontier Infantry No. 67 and in 1798 to Slavonski Gradiscan Frontier Infantry Regiment No. 8 . In 1801 the future general Franz Jircik became the regiment's commander. In 1805 Carl von Greth took over the regiment, who had already served in it from 1796 to 1798.
In the Third Coalition War , the regiment took part in Archduke Charles' successful campaign in Italy . In the battle of Abensberg they were in the brigade of Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz . In the Wars of Liberation , parts of the regiment fought a. a. in the Battle of Dresden and the Battle of Nations near Leipzig . In the fighting against Eugène de Beauharnais on September 11, 1813 near St. Martin near Littai , the Gradiscans stood out in particular.