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During this time of general upheaval in the political situation in Europe, his rule was mediated in 1806 and came to the Principality of Isenburg, whose head was Carl, Prince of Isenburg, a founding member of the Confederation of the Rhine (and later, until 1813, French major general).
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Foreign troops were not uncommon in the 18th and 19th centuries either. Foreign military units fought for the ancient Greeks and Romans. Even in the Middle Ages and modern times, this was neither dishonorable (for those involved), nor were these troops treated differently than local units in the event of defeat. It was not until the national moveme...
In contrast, however, the foreign regiments : The first of these regiments was the regiment La Tour d'Auvergne, in 1805 White Castle(1810 called the first imperial and French foreign Regiment) built. When it was established, it numbered more than 3000 men (Bohemians, Prussians, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanoverians, Austrians, Swiss, etc.) - The second regi...
11 battles (with wounded or fallen): 1807 - Calabria, 1808 - Capri, 1809 - Mitoya, 1810 - Otranto, Carascal, Lerida and Viterbo, 1811 - Castelmare, 1812 - Gaeta, 1813 - Marinella and Mühlbach
Regimentskommandeure 1. November 1, 1805 to January 6, 1807: Carl Fürst zu Isenburg ( Charles-Frederic-Louis-Maurice Prince d'Isembourg)(1766–1820), Colonel, from December 12, 1806 Brigadier-General (General-de-Brigade) 2. January 6, 1807 to January 12, 1808: William (Guillaume) O'Meara (1764–1828), then wing adjutant to Marshal Jean Lannes 3. Octo...
On November 25, 1812, all foreign regiments were disarmed and disbanded on the orders of Napoleon, which dragged on for some Allied troops in Spain until the end of 1812. The Isenburg regiment appeared on January 2, 1815, when it was merged with the Latour regiment. Both were finally dissolved in Verdun in 1815.
The Isenburg Regiment should not be confused with the “Prussia” regiment in French service, which was also established by the Prince of Isenburg in November 1806. This regiment was later called the 4th Imperial French Foreign Regiment. On November 26, 1813, the prince applied to join the anti-Napoleonic alliance and declared his membership in the C...
Martin Bethke: The Principality of Isenburg in the Rhine Confederation. In Zeitschrift für Heereskunde - Scientific organ for the cultural history of the armed forces, their clothing, armament and...Eugène Fieffé: History of the foreign troops in the service of France: from their formation to our day as well as all those regiments that were raised in the conquered countries under the First Rep...Johann Conrad Friederich: Memories or Forty Years from the Life of a Dead, also called the German Casanova, first volume, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig and Weimar 1978, 624 pages (novel)L. ( = Ludwig) Hörmann: The German troops in the service of France - A historical sketch - II. After the French Revolution. In V. ( = Valentin) Streffleur's Austrian military magazine, second volum...kriegsreisende.de (Dr. Frank Westenfelder) - Knights of Luck under Napoleon: In the Foreign Regiment Isembourg
Founded before 1914, the khutor (farmstead) of Isenburg was located 15 kilometers southeast of the railroad station at Gmelinskaya. Following the early Soviet era collectivization, it grew to became a rather large Collective Farm called "Ainigkait". Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Isenburg is called Bolshi Prudy.
As was the custom in Germany, the Counts of Isenburg had divided and redivided their patrimony down through the centuries, founding new branches, seeing others die out, and merging still others with new lands gained through marriage.
The following table summarizes what happened in the Council of Princes between 1803 and 1806. The first column lists the composition in 1792 (based on Pütter; the order of precedence is as in Beck 1755, with spiritual and temporal princes alternating).
The XII Corps of the Grande Armée was a short-lived French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. The corps was formed in the spring of 1813 and Marshal Nicolas Oudinot was appointed as its commander. The formation included one Bavarian and two French infantry divisions.
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Isenburg-Isenburg was the name of a state of the Holy Roman Empire, based around Isenburg in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was created as a partition of the Niederlahngau in 1137. It partitioned into Lower Isenburg and Isenburg-Braunsberg in 1199.
