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The 76th Infantry Regiment came from the 17th Infantry Division. The 164th Infantry Regiment was formerly part of the 20th Infantry Division. The 73rd Füsiliers and the 164th Infantry were Hanoverian regiments, and the 76th was the regiment of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Cavalry support came in the form of two squadrons of Baden's 22nd ...
36th (Magdeburg) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Blumenthal" 13 December 1815: Halle, Bernburg: IV Army Corps: 37th (West Prussian) Fusiliers "von Steinmetz" 26 January 1818: Krotoschin: V Army Corps: 38th (Silesian) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Moltke" 26 January 1818: Glatz: VI Army Corps: 39th (Lower Rhenish) Fusiliers: 26 ...
The Belgian Army has no specific regiment called fusiliers, but the general denomination for infantry soldiers is storm fusilier (Dutch: stormfuselier; French: fusilier d'assaut). The Belgian Navy used to have a regiment of marine infantry composed of marine fusiliers in charge of the protection of the naval bases.
The term "Hanoverian Army" is also sometimes used after 1714 to refer to British forces supportive of the House of Hanover against their Jacobite opponents, particularly during the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings. [2] The term Army of Hanover may refer to a French military formation centred on Hanover during the Napoleonic Wars.
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
The German 73rd Infantry Division or in German 73. Infanterie-Division was a German military unit which served during World War II. The division consisted of more than 10,000 soldiers, primarily of the infantry branch, with supporting artillery. The division was only semi-motorized and relied on marching for the infantry units and horse-drawn ...
On 1 August 1914, shortly after the start of World War I, Jünger enlisted as a one year volunteer and joined the 73rd Hannoverian Fusilier Regiment of the 19th Division, and, after training, was transported to the Champagne front in December. He was wounded for the first time in April 1915.
Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment, No. 39; 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment, No. 74; 28th Brigade : Generalmajor Wilhelm von Woyna 5th Westphalian Infantry Regiment, No. 53; 2nd Hanoverian Infantry Regiment, No. 77; Attached to Division Four batteries (two heavy and two light) of the 7th Westphalian field-artillery Regiment; Hanoverian Hussar ...