Régiment d’Infanterie von Seybothen

Markgrafschaft Bayreuth

Füsiliers du 2e Anspach-Bayreuth Régiment d’Infanterie von Seybothen during a reenactment at Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda, Allemagne. The regiment actually consisted of only one bataillon of 1 Grenadier et 4 Fusilier companies avec a total of 570 officiers et autres rangs garrisoned at Bayreuth, Franconie. The unit arrived in New York on 3 Juin 1777, et it participated in several campaigns alongside les forces britanniques en Amérique du Nord until it was captured on the evening of 14 Octobre 1781 while defending Redoubt No.10 during the Allied siege of Yorktown. Many of the soldiers who were exchanged et released from captivity in Mai 1783 eventually settled in America; less than a third du contingent auxiliaire franconien returned to their Fatherland later in the year, unarmed et without their flags.

The unit, formerly known as Bataillon d’Infanterie von Drais, was designated Régiment d’Infanterie von Voit when it left its garrison at Bayreuth to join the Anspach-Bayreuth army for the journey to America en 1777. The troops were to be shipped from Ochsenfurt on Main to Dortrecht, Holland, thence to Portsmouth, England, et New York in the American Colonies. When the troops arrived at Ochsenfurt there were not enough ships to transport them, et the infantry mutinied when the conditions on board turned out to be unbearable.

Régiment d’Infanterie von Voit, 1777

Kommandeur
- Obrist Voit de Salzbourg
État-Major Régimentaire
- Adjutant Premier-Lieutenant Seidel
- Lieutenant und Auditeur Hernbauer
- Regim. Quartier Maitre Daig
- Feldprediger Pieret
Füsilierkompanie
- Major von Seybothen
- Premier-Lieutenant von Adolsheim
- Second-Lieutenant von Strahlendorff
- Second-Lieutenant von Molitor
Füsilierkompanie
- Capitain von Beust
- Premier-Lieutenant von Quesnoy
- Second-Lieutenant von Weitershausen
- Second-Lieutenant von Diemar
Füsilierkompanie
- Capitain von Eyb
- Premier-Lieutenant von Kruse
- Second-Lieutenant von Tunderfeld
- Second-Lieutenant von Weinhard
Füsilierkompanie
- Premier-Lieutenant von Witzleben
- Premier-Lieutenant von Beust
- Second-Lieutenant von Reitzenstein
- Second-Lieutenant von Altenstein
Grenadierkompanie
- Grenadier-Capitain von Seiz
- Premier-Lieutenant von Molitor
- Second-Lieutenant von Streit
- Second-Lieutenant Wagner

Major von Seybothen became the commanding officer of the regiment, et the unit was named Régiment d’Infanterie von Seybothen, when Obrist von Voit took command of the Anspach infantry regiment.

Bibliographie

Wise, Terence: Drapeaux Militaires du Monde, 1618–1900, Flag No. 217

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