"The Swedish Cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2018 1:01 p.m. PST |
"The regiments are noted in alphabetical order according to their names in 1813 – or the name before being disbanded or converted into infantry. The English name-translations are found within parenthesis. A regiment with an asterisk (*) after its name existed as a cavalry regiment in 1813. This was the time of the German War of Liberation that culminated with the great battle of Leipzig – ‘The Battle of the Nations' – in mid October that year. Some 30.000 Swedish made up the Swedish contingent of the Army of the North (totalling some 158.000 including Prussian, Russian and even some very minor elements of British) led by the former French Marshal, now Crown Prince of Sweden, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte. Virtually every Swedish regiment were represented. The Finnish cavalry regiments up till 1809 are also noted below, as Sweden-Finland was united under the same king since the Middle Ages until the Russo-Swedish war of 1808-1809, when Finland became an independent Grand-Duchy under the Russian Tsar…."
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Armand
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| Rittmester | 27 Jul 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 28 Jul 2018 10:35 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
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