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    The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria...
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    The Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈbaɪɐn]; Bavarian: Kinereich Bayern [ˈkɪnəraɪ̯x ˈb̥ajɛɐ̯n]; spelled Baiern until 1825) was...
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    During World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided. Around 2.4 million men were World...
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    Constitution from Federal Army to either Army of the Realm (Reichsheer) or German Army (Deutsches Heer). The contingents of the Bavarian, Saxon, and Württemberg...
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    Royal Bavarian Army Corps / I Bavarian AK (German: I. Königlich Bayerisches Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of...
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  • Bavarian Model 1842 (also referred to as the Bavarian M-1842 Rifled Musket) was a 19th-century Bavarian musket originally designed for the Bavarian Army...
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  • The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division (6. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the German Army, in World War I. The...
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    in 1841 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to honour the tradition of the Bavarian Army. In 1923, it was the site of the brief battle that ended Hitler's Beer...
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  • 1st Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army that served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. The division...
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    World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the Bavarian Army, and the era of World War II when he served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief...
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  • Deux-Ponts (1752–1817), officer of the French army and later general of the Royal Prussian and then of the Bavarian Army Philippe Guillaume Vicomte de Deux-Ponts...
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    Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, the Austro-Hungarian Common Army, the East German National People's Army and in their respective police services. The rank was...
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  • 13.9mm calibre rifle used in the Bavarian army since 1858. It was the most common infantry weapon of the Bavarian army in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866...
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  • of the Bavarian Army in the war against Prussia, in 1868 the Bavarian War Minister Siegmund Freiherr von Pranckh fundamentally reformed the army. His main...
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  • divisions in the Prussian Army (including four Saxon divisions and two Württemberg divisions), and six divisions in the Bavarian Army. These divisions were...
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    (1822–1889). Until 1905, it was located in Munich in the arsenal of the Bavarian army and then moved after five years of construction, into a new monumental...
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  • II Corps (redirect from II Army Corps)
    Army II Royal Bavarian Corps, a unit of the Bavarian Army and the Imperial German Army II Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps, a unit of the Bavarian Army and...
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    lit. 'Senior rifleman') was a German military rank first used in the Bavarian Army of the late 19th century. The rank and its equivalents (Oberkanonier...
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    and training for the new Hellenic Army. Because not enough volunteers could be found in time, regular Bavarian Army troops formed much of the actual corps...
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    both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in...
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    Royal Bavarian Army Corps / III Bavarian AK (German: III. Königlich Bayerisches Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Royal Bavarian Army, part...
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    born on 19 November 1880 in Nuremberg. In 1902, Gutmann joined the Bavarian Army and had risen to the rank of highest ranking NCO (Feldwebel) by 1904...
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    Sepp Dietrich (category German Army personnel of World War I)
    German Empire. In 1911 he joined the Bavarian Army with the 4. Bayerische Feldartillerie-Regiment "König" (4th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment "King") in...
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    Prince Leopold of Bavaria (category Members of the Bavarian Reichsrat)
    France, where the Bavarian Army was fighting alongside the Prussian Army in the Franco-Prussian War. He served with the 3rd Bavarian Artillery Regiment...
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    in 1643, he struck against Bavaria the following year, defeating the Bavarian army in three years of campaigning and forcing the Elector of Bavaria to...
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  • subsequent disbanding of the Bavarian army. Before the regiment of Life Guards was formed, two infantry regiments of the Bavarian Army held the title of 'King's'...
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    Royal Bavarian Army Corps / II Bavarian AK (German: II. Königlich Bayerisches Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Royal Bavarian Army, part...
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    enlisted Bavarian Army History of Germany during World War II Imperial Army (German Empire) (1870-1919) Kaiserliche Armee (to 1806) Imperial German Army Luftstreitkräfte...
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  • of Munich and volunteered to serve in the Bavarian Army as an Austrian citizen. He was posted to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (1st Company...
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    Otto von Lossow (category Bavarian generals)
    Hermann von Lossow (15 January 1868 – 25 November 1938) was a Bavarian Army and then German Army officer who played a prominent role in the events surrounding...
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