Reggimento Fanteria di Voit del Margraviato di Ansbach, 1769–1791

Fucilieri e granatieri del Reggimento Fanteria di Brandenburg-Anspach attacking a walled enclosure. The unit, formerly known as Battaglione Fanteria von Pölnitz, was designated Reggimento Fanteria von Eyb in servizio britannico. L’armata d’Anspach-Bayreuth was shipped from Ochsenfurt on Main to Dortrecht, Olanda, thence to Portsmouth, England, e New York nelle colonie americane. The troops participated in many engagements alongside the armata britannica in North America. Less than one third of the Franconian troops who fought nelle colonie americane returned to their Fatherland when the war ended for them in 1783. Many of these young soldiers decided to settle nell’America settentrionale e build a future for themselves in the New World.

Reggimento Fanteria di Eyb, 1777

• Kommandeur
  • Obrist von Eyb
• Regimentsstab
  • Adjutant Premier-Lieutenant von Könitz
  • Auditeur Rummel
  • Regimentsquartiermeister Fuchs
  • Pfarrer Wagner
• Compagnia fucilieri
  • Major von Reitzenstein
  • Lieutenant von Marschall
  • Lieutenant von Röder
  • Lieutenant von Diemer
• Compagnia fucilieri
  • Capitain von Waldenfels
  • Premier-Lieutenant von Reitzenstein
  • Second-Lieutenant von Sichart
  • Second-Lieutenant von Medefeld
• Compagnia fucilieri
  • Capitain von Ellrod
  • Premier-Lieutenant von Metsch
  • Second-Lieutenant von Keller
  • Second-Lieutenant von Drechsel
• Compagnia fucilieri
  • Capitain von Stein
  • Lieutenant von Tritschler
  • Lieutenant von Saden
• Compagnia granatieri
  • Grenadier-Capitain von Erckert
  • Premier-Lieutenant von Schönfeld
  • Second-Lieutenant von Adolsheim
  • Second-Lieutenant von Kublau

The due reggimenti di fanteria dall’Anspach-Bayreuth mutinied at Ochsenfurt on Main when their river transports turned out to be inadequate to accomodate the entire formation. Reggimento Fanteria von Eyb rallied first, e the compagnia di granatieri of this reggimento was ordered forward to subdue the men of Reggimento Fanteria von Voit who continued to disobey their officers. Füsilier-Lieutenant von Reitzenstein is said to have joined the granatieri of his reggimento, sword in hand, to restore order among the sister regiment.

Bibliografia

• Wise, Terence: Military Flags of the World, 1618–1900, Flag No. 217

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Esercito di Ansbach e Bayreuth

– Pubblicato: 15.08.2002 – Aggiornato: 16.07.2007
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