enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Prussian Army - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Army

    The Prussian Army acquired a reputation for strict and savage military discipline. [95] [96] [97] Often stereotypically associated with the Prussian Army was the Pickelhaube, or spiked helmet, in use in the 19th and early-20th centuries.

  3. Lützow Free Corps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lützow_Free_Corps

    The unit was officially founded in February 1813 as Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow (Royal Prussian Free Corps von Lützow). Lützow, who had been an officer under the ill-fated Ferdinand von Schill, obtained permission from the Prussian Chief-of-Staff Gerhard von Scharnhorst to organize a free corps consisting of infantry, cavalry, and Tyrolean Jäger (literally, “hunters ...

  4. Crew cut - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_cut

    John Cena sporting a crew cut. A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, [1] graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal.

  5. Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_of_the_German_Army...

    Army belt-buckle. Uniforms of the Heer as the ground forces of the Wehrmacht were distinguished from other branches by two devices: the army form of the Wehrmachtsadler or Hoheitszeichen (national emblem) worn above the right breast pocket, and – with certain exceptions – collar tabs bearing a pair of Litzen (Doppellitze "double braid"), a device inherited from the old Prussian Guard which ...

  6. Royal Prussian Army of the Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Prussian_Army_of_the...

    A standard of the Prussian Army used before 1807. The Royal Prussian Army was the principal armed force of the Kingdom of Prussia during its participation in the Napoleonic Wars. Frederick the Great's successor, his nephew Frederick William II (1786–1797), relaxed conditions in Prussia and had little interest in war.

  7. Potsdam Giants - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Giants

    In 1688 the later King Frederick William I of Prussia became the nominal Commander of the Regiment. After Frederick William I ascended to the throne in 1713, he proceeded to strengthen his military, including hiring 40,000 mercenaries. He had already begun to recruit taller soldiers and needed several hundred more recruits each year.

  8. 4th (Westphalian) Cuirassiers "von Driesen" - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_(Westphalian...

    The 4th (Westphalian) Cuirassiers "von Driesen" was a heavy cavalry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. The regiment was formed in 1717. The regiment fought in the Silesian Wars, the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Austro-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in 1919.

  9. Category:Prussian Army - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prussian_Army

    Units and formations of the Prussian Army (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Prussian Army" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.