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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | The Best Allied unit from each Army |
1800 The #IR51 and the Bussy Jagers zu Pferd Austrian 1812 the merciless Don Cossacks Russian 1813 Austrian Kuirassiers Korps, Russian LifeGuard Uhlans, Lithuanian Dragoon , Russian Raievski Grenadiers, Swedish Heavy Artillery, 1814 and 1815 Tuesday who is yours up to 1814 please. |
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| Author: | Jim Hall [ Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
Cliff In the Spanish War the 60th (Royal American) Rifle Battalion must be numbered as one of the best. Serving alongside the 95th Rifles and the King's German Legion rifle units they were the "crack" fighting troops. None of the "spit and polish" and rainbow uniforms just highly trained and professional. |
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) one of the Irish regt in Spain if not the best! |
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
In 1805 at Austerlitz part of French 3rd Dragoon Division (5th, 8th, and 12th Dragoon Regiment) formed in column was outflanked and routed by a single chevaulegeres regiment. The second brigade of the 3rd Dragoon Division was defeated in identical way. But when the 21st Dragoon Regiment (formed in column) charged the chevaulegeres stampeded. In that year the 21st Dragoon Regiment was an excellent unit, it had 50 % veterans of several campaigns and 10-15 years' service. The O'Reilly chevaulegeres rallied but were again routed by the same 21st Dragoon Regiment. This time it was due to support of several guns of horse artillery of Imperial Guard. The chevaulegeres had enough and withdrew from combat zone. But Napoleon watched the cavalry actions and was furious at the commander of 3rd Dragoon Division. Andreas Graf O'Reilly von Ballinlough (3 August 1742 – 5 July 1832) was an Austrian soldier and military commander of Irish origin. His military service extended through the Seven Years' War, War of the Bavarian Succession, Austro-Turkish War, French Revolutionary Wars, and Napoleonic Wars. He retired from the army in 1810 and died at age 89. Andrew O'Reilly was born in Ballinlough, County Roscommon, Ireland. His brother, Hugh, was created baronet of Ballinlough in 1795, and in 1812, on the death of their maternal uncle John Nugent, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Nugent (see Nugent Baronets). Their sister Margaret married Richard Talbot and was, as a widow, created Baroness Talbot of Malahide in 1831. At the age of 14, Andrew O'Reilly joined the army of Habsburg Austria and fought against the Kingdom of Prussia. After rising in the army, he married into an aristocratic family in his 40s. He led a cavalry regiment in combat against the Ottoman Turks. In the war with the First French Republic he was promoted to general officer. He played a leading role in the Battle of Marengo in 1800, where he led one of the Austrian attack columns. Even in his 60s he remained a military officer, fighting against the First French Empire in 1805 and was compelled to surrender Vienna in 1809. From 1803 until his death in 1832, he was Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian light cavalry regiment The regiment became noted for its outstanding combat efficiency during the 1809 war. |
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| Author: | Prince Repnin [ Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
The most glorious of Russian army in 1812: Guards - Leib-Guard Lithuanian Reg. - 1st Army, 5th Corps, Guard Inf.Div. Grenadiers - Count Arakcheyev's Grenadier Reg. (in 1813 re-named as Rostov GR) - 1st Army, 3rd Corps, 1st Gren.Div. Line Infantry - Chernigov Infantry Reg. - 1st Army, 3rd Corps, 3rd Inf.Div. Light Infantry - 20th Jeger' Reg. - 1st Army, 3rd Corps, 3rd Inf.Div. Heavy Cavalry - His Majesty's Leib-Kirasir Reg. - 1st Army, 5th Corps, 1st Kirasir Div. Dragoons - Pskov Dragoon Reg. - 1st Army, 2nd Cav.Corps, 2nd Cav.Div. Light Cavalry - Grodno Hussar Reg. - 1st Army, 1st Corps; Sumy Hussar Reg. - 1st Army, 6th Corps |
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| Author: | Prince Repnin [ Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
The best of Austro-Hungarian army in 1805-1809: Line Infantry - IR#7 K.Schroder, IR#13 Reisky, IR#14 Klebek, IR#18 Stuart, IR#19 Alvinzy, IR#26 Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, IR#32 Esterhazy, IR#36 Kolowrat, IR#39 Duka, IR#40 J.Mitrowsky, IR#51 Splenyi Light Infantry - GrenzR# 5 Warazdin, GrenzR#10 1st Banal, GrenzR#12 Deutsch-Banat Light Cavalry - O'Reilly ChL.Reg.#3, Latour ChL.Reg.#4, Rosenberg ChL.Reg#6; Merveldt UR#1, EH Karl UR#3; Hesse-Homburg HR#4, Ott HR#5, Liechtenstein HR#7, Kienmayer HR#8, Szekler HR#11 Heavy Cavalry - Kaiser DR#1, EH Albert CR#3 |
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
The Black Brunswickers (Schwarze Schar) were a volunteer corps raised by German-born Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771–1815) to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. The Duke was a harsh opponent of Napoleon Bonaparte's occupation of his native Germany.[1] Formed in 1809 when war broke out between the First French Empire and the Austrian Empire, the corps initially comprised a mixed force, around 2,300 strong, of infantry, cavalry and later supporting artillery.[1][2][3] Distinctively attired in black broadcloth with a silvered death's head badge on their hats, the volunteers were nicknamed the Black Horde or the Black Legion; their more commonly known title was the result of the Duke's temporary capture of the German city of Braunschweig (Brunswick) from the French in 1809. The Black Brunswickers earned themselves a fearsome reputation over the following decade, taking part in several significant battles including the pre-Waterloo engagement at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815, where the Duke lost his life. However, recruiting, the replacement of casualties, and finance had always been problematic, and the corps was disbanded in the early 1820s. The exploits of the Brunswickers caught the British Victorian public imagination: an example of this can be found in John Everett Millais's painting The Black Brunswicker. Completed in 1860, the painting depicts a Brunswicker in his black uniform bidding goodbye to an unnamed woman. |
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Best Allied unit from each Army |
The British Innskilling dragoons the skins KGL and the |
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