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The following text may date back to the War of Spanish Succession (1702–1713), since it refers to the grenadiers throwing grenades and the men wearing "caps and pouches" (i.e. the tall grenadier caps, [10] worn by these elite troops, and the heavy satchel [11] in which grenades were carried) and "loupèd clothes" – coats with broad bands of 'lace' across the chest that distinguished early ...
On 7 August 1944, the 1st Grenadiers Regiment was shipped to Afragola in southern Italy, followed by the 2nd Grenadiers Regiment on 11 August. On 21 August 1944, the 1st Grenadiers Regiment was disbanded and its personnel used to form a Grenadiers Battalion, which was assigned to the 87th Infantry Regiment "Friuli" as the regiment's III ...
2nd Bombay Grenadiers of the Indian Army in Hampton Court Camp on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902. The Grenadiers is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence British Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers.
1st (1st East Prussian) Grenadiers "Crown Prince" 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers; 1st Cavalry Regiment (Chile) 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" 4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers; 5th Guards Grenadiers; 11th Fanagoriysky Grenadier Regiment; 14th Georgian Grenadier Regiment; 101st Grenadiers; 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers
Monument to the 1,600 Belgian grenadiers killed in action during World War I. The Grenadier Regiment was founded on 8 May 1837 by King Leopold I.Originally designated as the Regiment of Grenadiers and Voltigeurs, it was created by bringing together the elite companies of each of the twelve regiments of line infantry then in existence.
Cap badge of the regiment [3]. The Grenadier Guards trace their lineage back to 1656, [4] when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised from gentlemen of the Honourable Artillery Company by the then heir to the throne, Prince Charles (later King Charles II), in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), where it formed a part of the exiled King's bodyguard. [5]
On 23 March 1848, the First Italian War of Independence between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire began. At the time the Royal Sardinian Army's Guards Brigade, consisted of the 1st Grenadiers Regiment (Guards Brigade) with four grenadier battalions, and the 2nd Hunters Regiment (Guards Brigade) with three hunters battalions, one of which was based on the island of Sardinia.
The latter was part of the British Indian Army and claimed to be the first and oldest grenadier regiment (as opposed to grenadier companies) in the British Empire. In 1747 the grenadier companies of a number of disbanded French infantry regiments were brought together to form a single permanent unit - the Grenadiers de France.