First raised 1741 as the Stettin Garrison Regiment. 6 battalions strong before the Seven Years War. Garrisoned: 1st Battalion Glogau; 2nd Breslau; 3rd and 4th Berlin. In early 1757 the two Berlin battalions were doubled. The 5th was formed in Dresden and 6th in Berlin. The 3rd and 5th battalions were used to occupy Saxon forts on the Elbe.
On October 16th 1757, when Hadik's Corps raided Berlin, six companies of the regiment were part of the force defending; their commander Major von Tesmar was killed and the defenders routed. The 2nd battalion was allowed to retire when Breslau fell to the Austrians in November. In 1758 the 3rd and 5th battalions were with the Prussian army of Saxony and the 6th was sent to help garrison Küstrin, then besieged by the Russians. In 1759 the 3rd and 5th battalions were still with the army of Saxony and when Dresden surrendered on September 4th they were included in the haul of prisoners. On September 8th they were allowed to retire to Wittenberg. In 1760 they defended Leipzig. The two Berlin battalions were captured by the Russians on October 9th that year. And finally after the battle of Burkersdorf the 1st battalion was called from Glogau to help with the siege of Schweidnitz in 1762.
The grenadiers were with those of Fusilier Regiment 47 forming Wangenheim Grenadiers, who fought at Prague and Kolin in 1757, the siege of Olmütz and the battle of Domstadtl in 1758, and the incursion into Poland to destroy Russian magazines in 1759. In 1761 they took part in the defence of Colberg and then in 1762 in the siege and recapture of Schweidnitz.
And this was the uniform in 1756:
