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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.
31 March 1897: Forbach: XXI Army Corps: 175th (8th West Prussian) Infantry: 31 March 1897: Graudenz, Schwetz: XVII Army Corps: 176th (9th West Prussian) Infantry: 31 March 1897: Kulm, Thorn: XVII Army Corps: 177th (12th Royal Saxon) Infantry: 1 April 1897: Dresden: XII Army Corps: 178th (13th Royal Saxon) Infantry: 1 April 1897: Kamenz/Sachsen ...
Second Army (Austro-Prussian War) This page was last edited on 13 December 2011, at 14:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The 17th Division was one of the more mixed units of the German Army. It was formed by merging the contingents of the Hanseatic Cities with those of the Mecklenburg grand duchies. The division's 33rd Infantry Brigade was composed of the contingents of Hamburg and Bremen (and until the formation of the 162nd Infantry Regiment in 1897, that of ...
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.
Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States were ordered by staff officers from 1897 to 1903 as training exercises in planning for war. The hypothetical operation was supposed to force the US to bargain from a weak position and to sever its growing economic and political connections in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and South America so that German influence could increase ...
The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640–1945 (1964) excerpt and text search; Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945 (2009) Frevert, Ute. A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society (2004), history since 1800; Hauptmann, Hermann. The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe (2012) excerpt and text search
The Guards Fusilier Regiment (German: Garde-Füsilier-Regiment) or Guards Fusiliers was an infantry unit of the Guards Corps of the Prussian Army garrisoned in Berlin. In keeping with the genteel nature of the unit, most of its officer corps were nobility. At the time of the German Empire it commanded soldiers guarding the Wache.