The famous prussian giant-grenadiers of Potsdam. Uniforms, weapons, equipment, expierience, development and daily life of these very big soldiers. The "Soldier-King" Frederick William of Prussia "collected" extreme tall men throughout europe and formed them into a special guard-corps. His son, Frederick II. the Great, changed the corps into a grenadier-regiment (No. 6 Guard). The regiment was disbanded in1806, after the desaster of Jena-Auerstedt.
Content: The Giant Guard Grenadiers Formation history; wartime deployment The Guard Parade - Life in the Garrison Guards and guard duty Shield houses and guards Recruits for the Long Guys Long Guys Regiment and battalion Strengths: Red Grenadier Battalion, King's Regiment, Grenadier Guards Battalion. King's Regiment Battalion Strengths Company Strengths 1714 -1740 Unranked Corps, Unranked Strength Table Grenadier caps and hats Officers: Weapons and rank Sabre tassels Spontons and short rifles Weapons and equipment Minstrels, musicians, instruments The Uniform 1713 -1736 The Uniform 1718 - 1729/30 Body Company King's Regiment 1726; II. and III. Battalion King's Regiment 1729 -1736 The Uniform from 1736: Officers The Uniform from 1736: Non-Commissioned Officers The Uniform from 1736 onwards Carpenters, Minstrels, Hoboists The Uniform 1798-1806 The flags Staff and sub-staff Monetary value, cost of living Guard Invalides List of sources Naming of uniform and equipment parts
Rolf Fuhrmann Born 1957 in Gronau/Leine, living in Wilhelmshaven since 1996. Trained as a nurse, self-taught draughtsman. Since graduating from high school in 1976, he has worked mainly as a freelance artist and author, specialising in costume, uniform and military history. During the 1970s he worked as a freelancer for the editorial staff of Modell-Fan in the field of figures, in 1999 he started publishing the ROFUR-Flags flag series, since 2004 he has been a freelancer for the magazine Figuren International.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Fuhrmann, Rolf
Title
Die Langen Kerls 1675/1713 - 1806
Details
Paperback, 56 pages full of coloured illustrations, german text.
