ROYAL PRUSSIAN ARMY IN THEIR NEWEST UNIFORM 1855 Die Königl. Preussische Armee in ihrer Neuesten Uniformirung

First Published
Berlin: Mitscher & Röstell, 1859.

Plates in order: 1. Reitender Artillerist. 2. Reitender Feldjager. 3. Fahndrich zur See. Seecadett. 4. Admiral. 5. Matrosen. 6. Dragoner. 7. As above. 8. Garde – Dragoner. Trompeter. 9. Uhlan. 10. Garde – Ulanen – Rgt Officier. 11. Uhlan. Unterofficier. 12. Seesoldat. 13. Garde – Rgt zu Fuls. 14. Garde – Rgt zu Fuls. Officier. 15. Garde du Corps. 16. Garde – Artillerie Rgt, Major. 17. Rgt Garde du Corps, Stabsofficier. 18. Garde-Res-Inf-Rgt Hornist, Kaiser- Alexand-Gren-Rgt Hautboist. 19. Garde Train Soldat. 20. Garde – Unterofficier – Comp. 21. Garde – Pionier. 22. Garde – Landwehrreiter. 23. Gardehusar. 24. Gardejager. 25. Jager. 26. Infanterie – Officier. 27. Garde-Landwehr-Infanterie. Fahnentrager u. Unterofficiere. 28. Schwerer Landwehrreiter. 29. Infanterist. 30. Linien Infanterist. 31. General der Infanterie. 32. Bluchersches Husaren Rgt. Officier. 33. Husar. 34. Husaren Rgt. Standartentrager. 35. Ingenieur – Officier. 36. Kaiser Franz Gren Rgt. Tambour. 37. Flgel – Adjutant. 38. Cuirassier. 39. Invaliden. 40. Kadetten. 41. Krankentrager. 42. Bataillonsarzt / Lazarethgehulfe. 43. Corps – Auditeur. 44. Zahlmeister. 45. Kannonier. 46. Generalstabs – Officier. 47. Leit – Gendarm. 48. Landwehrmann.

The aphorism usually attributed to the French statesman Count Mirabeau, that Prussia was not a country with an army but an army with a country, remains two centuries later a common way of introducing a discussion of 18th and 19th century Prussia. Throughout absolutist Europe, military expenses made up a major share of state budgets. But where 20 or 30 per cent was the norm elsewhere, the Prussian army regularly accounted for as much as three-quarters of public expenditure – and that in times of profound peace. In political, social and cultural terms as well, Prussia was generally recognised by its neighbours as centring on its army to a degree unknown elsewhere. Finally, that military focus seemed to be widely accepted at all levels and in all corners of a Prussia whose subjects were by any discernible standard no less content than those of other states.

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