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3rd Lithuanian Fusilier Reserve Battalion

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3rd Lithuanian Fusilier Reserve Battalion
Active1813 March 1 - July 1 (as a separate Battalion)
Disbanded on 12 December 1813
CountryKingdom of Prussia
EngagementsNapoleonic Wars
Military unit

The 3rd Lithuanian Fusilier Reserve Battalion (Lithuanian: 3-asis lietuvių fuzilierių rezervinis batalionas; German: 3. Litauisches Füsilier Reserve Bataillon) was a fusilier battalion of the Royal Prussian Army formed by Lithuanians.

1813

Formation

Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg marched into Königsberg (Lithuanian: Karaliaučius) on 8 January 1813 and immediately declared the mobilisation of all remaining able-bodied men. First, he called all the Krümper and recruits, which von Bülow had left to the east of the Vistula. So, Yorck created a large training camp to train the new soldiers. On March 1, seven reserve battalions were formed, which were the:

The 3rd Lithuanian Fusilier Reserve Battalion was formed in Königsberg, under the command of Captain von Clausewitz from the 2nd West Prussian Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to Major on March 26. In early June, the Battalion was in the vanguard of von Bülow's Corps.

Assigning to various regiments

The unit retained its name until July 1. This and other reserve battalions were concentrated into reserve regiments on 1 July 1813. The 3rd Lithuanian Fusilier Reserve Battalion was made the 5th Reserve Infantry Regiment's 4th Battalion.

The Battalion was disbanded on December 12 and its men used to reinforce the regiment's other battalions.

1815

After Napoleon was defeated, the Prussian Army was reorganized, and so the 5th Reserve Infantry Regiment became the 17th Infantry Regiment on 1 March 1815.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hofschröer 1987, p. 7.
  2. Mittler 1914, p. 108.
  3. ^ Pohlmann 1905, p. 9.
  4. von Plotho 1817, p. 135.
  5. Fremont-Barnes 2011.
  6. Hofschröer 1987, p. 8.
  7. von Plotho 1817, p. 70.
  8. ^ Hofschröer 1987, p. 9.
  9. Alt 1869, p. 163.

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