Publisher's Synopsis
This scarce antiquarian book is a translation of the original. Due to its age and the use of German Fraktur typeface, the resulting translation into modern English may contain minor imperfections in the body of work.Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, contemporary editions that are a best attempt to a factual translation to the original work.This translated and edited work of Maximilian von Ditfurth "Das Kurhessische Leibgarde-Regiment. Eine geschichtliche Skizze," deals with the origins a of the old Hessian Guard Regiment, from whose units the Kurhessische Leibgarde-Regiment was finally formed, as it existed in 1866 before the annexation of the Kurstaates. It also unfolds to the reader in a captivating and striking manner, in individual vignettes, from various epochs of war, in numerous battles and combats, to the impressive weapons of the Hessian guard regiments in European and non-European theaters of war.
