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The Royal Saxon Army (German: Königlich Sächsische Armee) was the military force of the Electorate (1682–1807) and later the Kingdom of Saxony (1807–1918). A regular Saxon army was first established in 1682 and it continued to exist until the abolition of the German monarchies in 1918.
It was assigned to the II Army Inspectorate [2] which formed the predominantly Saxon 3rd Army at the start of the First World War. It was still in existence at the end of the war [ 3 ] in the 19th Army , Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg on the Western Front .
The combined Saxon–Polish army lost between around 1,800 [3] to 2,000 men on the battlefield, [82] [84] [93] [79] [76] [87] [5] [57] More men were killed during the retreat but their number is unknown. [84] According to Saxon relations, 1,706 Saxon soldiers were killed, and 231 officers and privates were wounded. [94]
A modern recreation of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon warrior. The period of Anglo-Saxon warfare spans the 5th century AD to the 11th in Anglo-Saxon England.Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European cultural areas of the Early Medieval Period, although the Anglo-Saxons, unlike the Continental Germanic tribes such as the Franks and the Goths, do not appear to have regularly fought ...
In Anglo-Saxon documents military service might be expressed as fyrd-faru, fyrd-færeld, fyrd-socn, or simply fyrd. The fyrd was a local militia in the Anglo-Saxon shire, in which all freemen had to serve. Those who refused military service were subject to fines or loss of their land. [2] According to the laws of Ine:
The XII (1st Royal Saxon) Army Corps / XII AK (German: XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps) was a Saxon corps level command of the Saxon and German Armies before and during World War I. The Corps was formed as the Royal Saxon Corps on 1 April 1867 and headquartered in Dresden.
Pages in category "Anglo-Saxons killed in battle" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... This page was last edited on 19 December 2024, at ...
In mid-January 772, the sacking and burning of the church of Deventer by a Saxon expedition was the casus belli for the first war waged by Charlemagne against the Saxons. It began with a Frankish invasion of Saxon territory and the subjugation of the Engrians and destruction of their sacred symbol Irminsul near Paderborn in 772 or 773 at Eresburg.