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Flag of the regiment from 1709 to 1780 Uniform in 1762. The 94th Infantry Regiment (94e régiment d’infanterie or 94e RI) is a French Army regiment. It originated in 1709 as a German regiment in the French army known as the régiment Royal-Bavière. From 1780 to 1791 it was known as the régiment Royal-Hesse-Darmstadt.
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen).
2nd Brigade: General-Major Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. Hesse-Darmstadt Guard Fusilier Battalion; Hesse-Darmstadt Leibgarde Regiment (2 battalions) Hesse-Darmstadt Leib Regiment (2 battalions) Divisional Artillery: Captain Bourgon Baden Foot Battery (4 guns) Hesse-Darmstadt Foot Battery (3 guns) Attached to Corps:
Hesse-Kassel manufactured its own weapons and uniforms, and its textile industry was so prosperous from supplying the military that workers could afford to buy meat and wine every day. The revenue from renting the army to the British equaled roughly 13 years' worth of taxes, [ 9 ] allowing the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Friedrich II , to reduce ...
The 25th Division (25.Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.)Division), was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. [1] It was headquartered in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. [2]
The Grand Duchy of Hesse (1806–1816), known as the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine from 1816 to 1918, was a former state in Hesse, Germany. The Grand Duchy was formed in 1806 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Napoleon then elevated the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt to the level of grand duchy.
The Battle of Aschaffenburg, sometimes also called The Skirmishes Near Aschaffenburg, was a battle of the Austro-Prussian War on 14 July 1866 between pitting the armies of Prussia on the one hand and parts of the VIII Corps of the German Federal Army on the other side which primarily consisted of soldiers from the Austrian Empire, Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Kassel.
The Royal Prussian and Grand-Ducal Hessian State Railways (German: Königlich Preußische und Großherzoglich Hessischen Staatseisenbahnen or K.P.u.G.H.St.E.) was a state-owned network of independent railway divisions in the German states of Prussia and Hesse in the early 20th century. It was not, as sometimes maintained, a single state railway ...