Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "The Armchair Historian"
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No. The real founder of prussian army was his father Friedrich- Wilhelm l, ruling from 1714 to 1740. This king had a problem, when he started his reign. His pompeous and warlike ancestors had nearly bancrupted Prussia. So he did changes. He replaced pompeous french lifestyle with moneysaving prussian lifestyle. He sold expensive and useless african colonies. He changed administration: The official became wellpaid, and for this the king wanted loyal, disciplined and busy officials. He stopped all costintensive things, when you can not earn money with. He thought: A country without an army is a garden without a fence, everybody comes to steal. So he enlarged prussian army from 38000 men to about 70000 (or 80000?) men and spend lot of money for bis army. But he knew: a) An army is expensive. b) Warfare is more expensive. c) A defeat in war is much more expensive. So Friedrich- Wilhelm l, known as Soldatenkönig/ soldierking was militaristic, but was never involved in a war ( to expensive). But in contrast to his son , he was not interessted in art or philosophy, he was a simple man and described as a rather unfriendly, to some degree brutal man, so he is seen mostly negatve in Germany. But: Not wanting colonies and selling them, being not involved into war, and a money saving lifestyle is realy different to other monsrchs.
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Some small notes from Germany: The german ,ch' sound is not a ,k' . German ,th' is spoken ,t' , not the english way ( When Standard German was created in 19th century, and was officially adopted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in early 1870s, the former custom of writing a ,h' after every ,t' ended, so today a ,th' appears only in in names or nongerman words, the only exeption is Thron/ throne, because Wilhelm ll in 1901 saved the ,h' in this word.) Also calling von Richthofen a Baron is not correct. In british nobility rank system Baron is the lowest rank of high nobility, while german nobility rank Freiherr is highest rank of low nobility ( knights), so Baronet would be more correct. Baron is in Germany often used for Freiherr, but only in Austria or Bavaria some few noblemen bot this title officially.
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@LiterallyWho1917 : Not totally true, in case of line tactics. Both in Italy 1859, in Denmark 1864 and Königgrätz 1866 the Austrian troops used many parts of old napoleonic tactics. The problem was , that in the austrian army soldiers with german, hungarian, czech, slowakian, slowenian, croatian, italian, polish, ruthenic, romanian etc. native language served, so before 1867 ( the year of military, civil and administration reforms), commanding the modern tactics was a large Problem, so that Austria used old tactics, easier to command , longer. In the very informative Army Museum in the former Arsenal buildings of Vienna, i saw a manual for german language officers, how to speak orders for nongerman soldiers. The orders had been written, for example , in correct hungarian and then in a way , how a german would write it.
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@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 : Wrong button! The dragoons had been in Germany used as second wave in charge, or sometimes as infantry, they once had been ( They had been armed with a slightly shortened musket/ Dragonergewehr, similar to marines muskets, bayonnet and staight blade sword/ Pallasch like cuirassiers and gendarmes). During 18th century the german dragons had been used fewer and fewer as infantry ( Frederick ll of prussia: The dragons fight mostly in horseback, infantry training should not be forgotten, but the quality of regular infantry is not necessary). As light cavallry the Hussars ( of hungarian orgin) had been used in Germany , armed with ( curved) saber and carbines. Carbines in small numbers had also been used by cuirassiers and gendarmes, and pistols also by hussars and dragons. Cavallry with lances was very (!) rare in 18th century germany, perhaps some few polish soldiers in prussian/austrian service, and austrian Grenzer/ Bosniaken/ border guards at the austrian- ottoma Militärgrenze/ military border. During napoleonic wars, lancers (Ulanen) had been introduced into some german armies, and german/austrian dragons have nearly lost the infantry fight ability. This was reintroduced in not so proper way in late 19th century, so german dragons entered wwl with Leatherhelmet with point like line infantry, but with carbines. Because german cavallry started in wwl with carbines and no bayonnet, they had to use their lances as substitute. So to come back to your comment, the solution is simply another military tradition. And bavarian light cavallry used the french name Chevaux legets'- light horse.
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