"1st Regiment Ansbach-Bayreuth " Topic
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Tango01  | 05 Jun 2017 10:02 p.m. PST |
"From 1769 to 1791 the Franconian principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth were ruled by Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander Markgraf von Ansbach-Bayreuth of the house of Hohenzollern. The population in the territories amounted to about four hundred thousand people. The Markgraf von Ansbach-Bayreuth was deeply in dept, because of mismanagement, and jumped at the English king's offer to commit 1160 of his troops, receiving £ 100,000 sterling in recompense. In 1791, not long after the war, he sold both Ansbach and Bayreuth to Prussia and lived the rest of his life in England on a Prussian pension…"
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| Supercilius Maximus | 06 Jun 2017 11:07 a.m. PST |
Good to see he has gone with metal-fronted cloth grenadier caps, instead of the bearskin version (as per Mollo/McGregor) which are wrong. |
| Old Wolfman | 07 Jun 2017 7:27 a.m. PST |
Can just hear the Hohenfriedberger Marsch in my head now. |
| Tango01 | 07 Jun 2017 10:58 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.
