The Drabant Corps of Charles XII (Swedish: Karl XII:s Drabantkår) was the most prestigious unit in the Swedish Army during the time of the Great Northern...
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Caroleans (category Military history of Sweden)
Latin form of the name Charles, is a term used to describe soldiers of the Swedish army during the reigns of Kings Charles XI and Charles XII of Sweden,...
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appointed as its new commander in 1943. Drabant Corps of Charles XII – named after Charles XII of Sweden, the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. Durruti Column...
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Great Northern War (redirect from Siege of Vyborg (1706))
Charles XII, and forced out of the alliance in 1700 and 1706 respectively, but rejoined it in 1709 after the defeat of Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava...
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Trabant (military) (category Military units and formations of the Middle Ages)
(Leibgarde der Fuß-Trabanten). Charles XII of Sweden made himself the captain over the reformed Drabant Corps in 1700, which had a lot of initial success in the...
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scattered around the wetlands. Charles also gave orders that every wounded officer and non-commissioned officer of the Drabant Corps and the Life Guards should...
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King Charles XII two years later ordered his architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger to redesign the wrecked building into stables for his Drabant Corps, which...
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land. During the evening of July 18, a little more than 6,000 Swedish infantry and 535 cavalry (among them the Drabant Corps) started to embark their...
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Arvid Horn (category Lord Marshals of the Riksdag of the Estates)
lieutenant over the Drabant Corps since 1696. In 1704 he was entrusted with his first diplomatic mission, the deposition of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and...
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of seven regiments (or 5,000 men) under von Schaumburg. Charles XII galloped to Krasnokutsk with a vanguard of 2,500 cavalry, including the Drabant Corps...
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Stanisław Poniatowski (1676–1762) (category Grand Treasurers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Swedish Drabant Corps. In 1708, Leszczyński appointed Poniatowski his personal representative to Charles XII. He participated in the Battle of Holowczyn...
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Silesia in two columns under Charles XII and Rehnskiöld. Charles XII rode in the vanguard, alongside his Drabant Corps and the Wallachians. He marched...
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Axel Erik Roos (category Swedish military personnel of the Great Northern War)
lieutenant in the Närke-Värmland Regiment. He was appointed to the Drabant Corps in 1708 and accompanied the king to Bender after the surrender at Perevolochna...
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