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4 days ago · Der Sammelbegriff Grabstätten des Hauses Hessen auf der Rosenhöhe Darmstadt umfasst jene Begräbnisstätten der großherzoglichen Familie von Hessen-Darmstadt, die im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert in verschiedenen Bereichen des historischen Parks Rosenhöhe im Osten Darmstadts angelegt wurden.
5 days ago · The Regiment Garde-Chevaux-Legers was one the singular cavalry regiment raised by Darmstadt which participated in the Napoleonic Wars. History. The unit was initially formed from veterans of a hussar regiment from Salm, fighting against Revolutionary France after it had threatened the Landgraviate territories west of the Rhine.
2 days ago · The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel soon emerged as the most prominent source of German soldiers to foreign armies. To field a large professional army with a relatively small population, Hesse-Kassel became the most militarized state in Europe: All Hessian males registered for military service at age seven, and from age 16 until 30 were required ...
Aug 1, 2024 · Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel was another princely prodigal whose love of pleasure impoverished his subjects and forced his soldiers into mercenary service for England. The record of enlightened autocracy in central Europe was as uneven as in western Europe.
5 days ago · Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Nassau were the big winners in the competition for booty that had been the main object of the negotiations. Napoleon’s strategy had been in the classic tradition of French diplomacy, the tradition of Richelieu and Mazarin.
4 days ago · A spirit of fatigue and melancholy pervades the atmosphere, and the prevailing silence is broken only by the murmur of a little stream, the sobs of a child, or the faint thud of falling...
5 days ago · Hermann Hesse (born July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany—died August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland) was a German novelist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. The main theme of his work is the individual’s efforts to break out of the established modes of civilization so as to find an essential spirit and identity.
