First raised 1670 as Livregiment Ryttere and Rantzau’s Independent Company but split into 1st and 2nd Jyske Cavalry in 1675.
Strength 8 staff officers and 6 companies in 2 squadrons with a total strength of 440 officers and men.
In the service of Great Britain and Holland 1701-1713. Served in the Great Northern War 1715-1716 in North Germany, then in Norway 1718-1719.
Service in the WSS:
1702: Siege and capture of Liège
1704: With Marlborough's Army; 13th August battle of Blenheim; sieges of Trarbach and Saarburg
1706: Distinguished service at the battle of Ramillies (where the colonel Adam Marcus Utterwich (aka Uterwick) was killed in action); sieges of Antwerp, Ostend, Menin, Ath, Dendermonde and Oudenarde
1708: 11th July battle of Oudenarde
1709: Siege of Tournai; 11th September battle of Malplaquet
1713: Returned to Denmark
And this was probably the uniform in the WSS:
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