Margrave Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg-Ansbach raised the infantry regiment Ansbach of 9 companies (strength 1541). It entered the service of the Dutch in 1702 and was increased to 12 companies with a total of 2016 men. It was regiment Janus from 1701-1703. Later commanders were: from 1703 von Heydebracht; from 1705 von Seckendorff and from 1711 von Cavenach.
Regiment von Cavenach lost 300 prisoners and two flags to the French on 21st July 1712; these are the flags depicted here as shown in the Triomphes Louis XIV.
Service history:
1702: Siege of Kaiserswerth
1704: Storming of the Schellenberg and battle of Blenheim
1708: Battle of Oudenarde; siege of Lille
1709: Battle of Malplaquet
1710: Siege of Aire
1712: Battle of Denain
And the uniform in 1712 was probably something like this:
Love, love, love these! Not too unlike the standard(s) purportedly carried by Ansbach-Beyreuth infantry units that fought in the AWI 60 or so years later.
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Stokes
Thank you, Stokes. Glad you like them so much. Yes, indeed, they are not so very different from the later Ansbach-Bayreuth flags! :-)
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David.
Excellent flags and uniform details David.
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Thank you, Willz. :-) I must get back to WAS/SYW soon as I do have various flags and standards to post for those periods... As I have often said, it's the writing of the text that really eats up the time!
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David.
Excellent work David as always:).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Sorry to be slow posting your comment and my reply; somehow it was put in the spam on Blogger and I've only just found it and retrieved it!
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David.