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The Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Herzogtum Oldenburg), named for its capital, the town of Oldenburg, was a state in the north-west of present-day Germany. The counts of Oldenburg died out in 1667, after which it became a duchy until 1810, when it was annexed by the First French Empire. It was located near the mouth of the River Weser.
The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg came into existence in 1815 combining the territory of the old Duchy of Oldenburg with the Principality of Birkenfeld.Whilst Oldenburg was elevated to a grand duchy at the Congress of Vienna, the first two grand dukes continued to style themselves as merely dukes and it was not until 1829 that the newly acceded Augustus used the title of grand duke.
Horse carabinier's uniform before 1809 Horse carabinier as of 1809. The corps of Carabiniers was a group of heavy cavalry originally created by Louis XIV.From 1791 to 1809, their uniforms consisted of a blue coat with a blue piped red collar, red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks with white grenades, red epaulettes with edged white straps, red cuff flaps for the 1st Regiment, blue piped red for the ...
When Napoleon became First Consul through a military coup d'etat on the 18 Brumaire, he aceded to the primary military and civil authority. The position was considered by the constitution of the Year VIII a civil one. He eschewed his general's uniform. The consuls had their official state uniforms of scarlet velvet from Lyon embroidered in gold.
Soldier of the 1st infantry brigade, 2nd infantry brigade and Jäger Soldier of the 1st hussar regiment, 2nd hussar regiment and horse artillery. The Russian–German Legion was a military unit set up in 1812 by the banished Graf Peter of Oldenburg on the instigation of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
91st (Oldenburg) Infantry: 5 December 1813: Oldenburg: X Army Corps: 92nd (Brunswick) Infantry: 1 April 1809: Braunschweig: X Army Corps: 93rd (Anhalt) Infantry: 22 May 1807: Dessau, Zerbst: IV Army Corps: 94th (5th Thuringian) Infantry "Grand Duke of Saxony" 28 October 1762: Weimar, Eisenach, Jena: XI Army Corps: 95th (6th Thuringian) Infantry ...
Oldenburg Infantry Regiment: 1747 1951 [8] Oldenburg National Regiment: 1704 1765 [9] Prince Georg's Regiment: 1658 1721 Plön Recruited Infantry Regiment: 1764 1767 [2] Southern Jutland National Regiment (of foot) 1733 1765 [7] Schleswig National Regiment (of foot) 1737 1765 [7] Schleswig-Holstein National Regiment: 1737 1765 [9] Scanian ...
The German Empire consisted of 25 states: four kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies, seven principalities and three Hanseatic cities.In addition, the house order of the Hohenzollern principalities, although the states themselves had been annexed by Prussia, continued to be awarded in the imperial era.