THE HISTORY OF THE GRODNO HUSSAR REGIMENT 1806-1814
Extracted From the History of the 18th Klyastitsky Dragoon, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hessen’s
Regiment 1806-1886, Compiled by Lieutenant Tsekhanovetsky
[Translated from the original Russian into English, and edited by Peter G.A. Phillips]
Uniform of Grodno Hussar Regiment. 1812. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Grodno Hussars were raised in the immediate aftermath of the 1805 campaign, and went on to serve with distinction in East Prussia in 1807, Finland and Sweden in 1808-1809, with Wittgenstein’s independent I Corps in 1812, and all the way from Tauroggen to Paris in 1813-1814. According to Count Wittgenstein, from 1812 to 1814, the regiment fought in 30 pitched battles and 50 vanguard/rearguard actions, suffered 1,200 killed, severely wounded or missing in action/prisoners of war, yet took a total of 13,150 enemy prisoners of war alone!
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