Monday, November 18, 2019

Austrian Infanterie Regiment #12 - "Manfredini"


Here's the final of the "Fab Five" Austrian German Line regiments in helmet.  :-)


I.R. #12 from 1792-1809 was Infantry Regiment ‘Marchese Manfredini’, the inhaber being Feldmarchalleutnant Federigo, Marchese Manfredini.


Later, from 1809-1815 the regiment was "Furst zu Liechtenstein’ the new inhaber being Generalmajor Alois, Furst zu Liechtenstein.


The regiment was recruited in Moravia (Olmutz) and Galicia  (Tarnow and Bochnia). 


The regiment has rather somber dark brown facings, with brass buttons. 


In 1809 it saw extensive combat,  fighting as part of Aloys Lichtenstein's brigade of St. Julien's Division, part of  the III Corps under Hohenzollern. It and was heavily engaged at Teugen-Hausen, where it lost 1/3 of its men, and Prince Lichtenstein was severely wounded. . It fought again at Abensburg, and was in Reserve at Eggmuhl. On the North bank of the Danube, it fought yet again at Linz-Ufahr, and the regiment's Colonel was captured ij the pursuit thereafter. It was reorganizing during Aspern-Essling, but fought yet again, still as part of the III Corps, at Wagram and Znaim.

20 comments:

  1. Good to see a build up of your Austrians.

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    1. Unless I either build some more Austrian Artillery, or start on the 200+ Austrians in shako(!), the White Menace will recede again... for a while.

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  2. Outstanding unit. Great work on the linking using grey. White uniforms with white belts are tough to do, but these are spot on. The white menace grows!

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    1. Tanks, Alan. I was very happy with how the combination of the Wedgewood blue wash, and then the black magic wash at the end worked on these troops!

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    1. Thank you Jon. Just trying to approach your amazing productivity! :-)

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  4. Lovely painting, Peter! Uniform details, particularly on the raupenhelm, are wonderful.

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    1. Thanks fior the kind words, Dean. Much appreciated!

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  5. More progress on the whitecoats, Wagram appropriate hordes approaching!

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    1. Thanks, Mark. That is kind of the goal, have enough french and Austrians to do Wagram again, ? for 2021.

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  6. More lovely Austrians! They look splendid!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks, Iain! That's the last of the Kaiserlicks... for now!

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  7. Great work. This looks like it will be quite a substantial collection of Austrians when you're through this next batch Peter.

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    1. Thanks, Lawrence. My Austrian army is already pretty big, but with these additions, I have 30 units of Line (18 figures each), and the total army is over 1400 figures, although that total is "padded" a bit by Landwehr and Tirolese... and then there the almost 300 more unpainted Austrian infantry in the Lead Pile!

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  8. An excellent subject for the finale Peter. A 'famous' regiment, indeed, as you say!
    Beautifully done as ever.

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    1. Thank you so much for the kind words, James. With the "Snowstorm" of Kaiserlicks now completed, is a "Blue Wave" of French needed to compensate?

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