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So recently I have been trying to find information regarding the army of Frankfurt Am Main during the Napoleonic wars but I cannot find very reliable information or sources regarding them any help?
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This book seems to be quite good, judging from the sample pages:
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I would endorse the above book. From my notes:
The entries below are aimed at pulling together links to downloadable material on the Frankfurt Military. My sincere thanks to the Napoleon Series Forum (in particular Steve H. Smith, John (Jack) H. Gill, George Nafziger & many, many others) and Markus Stein & colleagues (Napoleon Online). As with previous contributions this is not exhaustive but should give those who have an interest in the Frankfurt Military to a fair range of material – unfortunately not as much as I would have liked.
Where possible I have inserted direct download links but unfortunately, I have not been able to achieve this for all entries.
Please note for some items, non-US inhabitants will need to use a VPN to gain access. If you do not have access to fast internet, you should think very carefully whether to attempt to try and download any items where multiple volumes can be downloaded in one go or where I have indicated either a big or large download. I may add to this list if and when I find other suitable material.
Les Allemands sous les aigles francaise – essai sur les troupes de la Confederation de Rhin 1806-1813 Tome 1 & 2 (covers Frankfurt & Baden) https://books.google.com/books/download/Les_Allemands_sous_les_aigles_fran%C3%A7aise.pdf?i d=R8tFmVGkNvkC&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U0qLHMybK16fh4h XswPBHzo1FTORg (uniform plates are in colour for both contingents)
Translation into English by Greg Gorsuch (The Napoleon Series) https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/Frankfurt/Sauzey/c_SauzeyFrankfurt.html
Schicksale des grossherzogthums Frankfurt und seiner Truppen: eine kulturhistorische und militärische Studie aus der Zeit des Rheinbundes
Guillaume Bernays
E.S. Mittler, Berlin 1882
https://books.google.com.br/books/download/Schicksale_des_grossherzogthums_Frankfur.pdf?id=i5 szAAAAYAAJ&hl=pt-BR&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U28eEG5dg1hIGcQCuZO3cXTF4G 9 MQ
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_i5szAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_i5szAAAAYAAJ.pdf
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_i5szAAAAYAAJ
Cüstine in Frankfurt und die Wiedereinnahme der Stadt durch die Deutschen 1792.
Franz Rittweger
H. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1867
https://books.google.co.uk/books/download/C%C3%BCstine_in_Frankfurt_und_die_Wiedereinn.pdf?i d=JxwEAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2F5mD4F_oy_aVX _i2p72BRlKJJ2w
Das Grossherzogtum Frankfurt; ein Kulturbild aus der Rheinbundszeit
Paul Darmstädter
J. Baer, Frankfurt am Main 1901
https://archive.org/download/dasgrossherzogt00darmgoog/dasgrossherzogt00darmgoog.pdf
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_LhsEAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_LhsEAAAAYAAJ.pdf
Grossherzoglich Frankfurtische, fürstlich Primatische Soldaten 1806-1813
Peter Wacker
Nr. 304 of the Zeitschrift für Heereskunde (1982), pp. 82-138 through 82-141:
https://nsfarchives.altervista.org/napoleon/forum/archive2013_config.pl@md=read%3Bid=138271.html
Vaterstadtisches und Vaterländisches. Auszüge aus S. G. Finger’s Tagebüchern von 1795 bis 1818. (Zusammengestellt von Lorenz Friedrich Finger)
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, nEue Folge, Sechster Band (Pages 168 to 367)
Frankfurt am Main 1877
https://archive.org/download/archivfrfrankfu04unkngoog/archivfrfrankfu04unkngoog.pdf
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_Lj4DAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_Lj4DAAAAYAAJ.pdf
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11356816?page=6,7
Diarium des Officier-Corps des löblichen XI. Stadt-Quartiers von 1797 — 1812
Dr. H. Grotefend
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Dritte Folge, Erster Band Pages 55 to 201
Frankfurt am Main 1888
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_sY0KAAAAIAAJ/bub_gb_sY0KAAAAIAAJ.pdf
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11609595?page=4,5
Der Concordien-Orden, die Ehren-Medaillen sowie die Feldzugs- und Dienstalterszeichen des Großherzogtums, des Generalgouvernements und der Freien Stadt Frankfurt (Pages 1 to 108)
H. von Heyden
Die Ehrenbürger der Reichsstadt und der Freienstadt Frankfurt (Pages 109 to 141)
Dr. R. Jung,
Frankfurt a. M. und die Französische Republik 1795-1797 (Pages 142 to 216)
Dr. Isidor Kracauer
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Dritte Folge, Dritter Band
Frankfurt am Main 1891
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_oYwKAAAAIAAJ/bub_gb_oYwKAAAAIAAJ.pdf
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11609597?page=6,7 (nice coloured plates of the various orders & medals in von Heyden’s article very near the end of the volume)
Frankfurt a. M. und die Französische Republik 1797-1802 (Pages 232 to 299)
Dr. Isidor Kracauer
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Dritte Folge, Fünfter Band.
Frankfurt am Main 1896
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11785263?page=8,9
Frankfurt a. M. und die Französische Republik 1802 – 1803 (Pages 253 to 313)
Prof. Dr. Isidor Kracauer
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Dritte Folge, Sechster Band
Frankfurt am Main 1899
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_...gKAAAAIAAJ.pdf
Die letzten jahre die reichsstӓdtischen zeit Frankfurts 1803-1806 (pages 242 to 300)
Prof. Dr. Isidor Kracauer
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Dritte Folge, Siebenter Band
Frankfurt am Main 1901
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t9g51fb31&seq=7&view=1up (download via download menu on the lefthand side; for non-US use of VPN required)
Die Auflösung des Grossherzogthums Frankfurt. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick auf die beiden letzten Monate des Jahres 1813 (Pages 512 to 521)
Dr. W. F. C. Stricker
Das Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst, Neue Folge, Dritter Band
Frankfurt am Main 1865
https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_oTEDAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_oTEDAAAAYAAJ.pdf
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10018295?page=4,5
Die Niederlungen der festungswerke in Frankfurt am Main 1802-1807 (Pages 118 to 190, Elfter Band)
Prof. Dr. R. Jung
Archiv fur Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst v.11-12(1913-1920)
https://books.google.com/books/download/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_Frankfurts_Geschichte_und_Ku.pdf?i d=DzRKAQAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U28JToz9hd7S0MW S7AjFS8ui4z_ew (for non-US use of VPN required)
Frankfurt
Militär-Staats start at page:
1807: https://books.google.com/books?id=W0xYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA52
1808: https://books.google.com/books?id=WUxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA52
1809: https://books.google.com/books?id=YkxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA52
1810: https://books.google.com/books?id=aUxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA54
1812: https://books.google.com/books?id=DBBTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38
Part 2 to follow due to limitations on size of a post.Kommentar
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UNIFORMS
Histofig
https://web.archive.org/web/20081117202921if_/http://www.histofig.com/images/empire/uniformes/rheinbund/francfort.jpg
Knotel
The Infantry of the Prince Primate:
Grand Duchy of Frankfurt am Main 1807-1813
John Cook, UK
First Empire – Issue 28
All illustrations © W.J. Cook 1996
Infantry of the Prince Primate
Grenadier Company
Grand Duchy of Frankfurt am Main 1806
John Cook, UK
First Empire – Issue 29
All illustrations © W.J. Cook 1996
Frankfurter Uniformen 1806–1866 Band III (Extract)
Volker Löbner
Aus dem Bestand des Historischen Museums
Frankfurt am Main und Privatsammlungen
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
"Ein Berittener Jäger von der Schaar der Frankfurter Freÿwilligen, 1813/1814"
"Frankfurter Freiwilligen Schaar: augerufen am 11 Decr. 1813, ausmarschirl. am 14 Merz 1814 "
"Freie Stadt Frankfurt: Bürgermilitair, Geleitsreuter. 1813 "
"Grosherzogthum Frankfurt: 1 Frankfurter Bataillon Primas, Tambour Joh: Christoph Cramer, 1808 "
Klein, Johann Adam, and Schäfer, Georg, "Oberleutnant des Frankfurter Burgermilitars 1815"
Klein, Johann Adam, and Schäfer, Georg, "Frankfurter Stadtsoldaten"
Henri Boisselier
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDD4BeBxbZy4XSbZmwZgeo-cLiU5BmJDx2f0aJTu7HGcasZb5Lm0xOb0zKjXHdDbIjYFJ_nVb MCewROntq0sSH50cL7ryyeJGtKFyMJmG-LOCwEu-B1-EnnDAgau5x9onss7WGmLuRnZM/s1600/Conf.+du+Rhin+Francfort+2a.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFBwG0tL80koNYtRQUq5ExVpXRvUlSpEXDTvDPy7DF0 vtIHg0j9elTZJxZU8z9CdMukQzEhSd6B8puCmbBiBFEdn6h6C5 6trBvtswbHtqPAmptMSyKILnCSLTlEtDnkuayowgPP7ZL7g/s1600/Conf.+du+Rhin+Francfort+2b+l%C3%A9gende.jpg
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auch mal die suchfunktion im Forum nutzen, bei Suchen - Frankfurt eingeben.Kommentar
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Ich hab mir das Buch jetzt ausgeliehen, zur Rheinbund-Zeit bringt es leider kaum etwas neues. Außer in der Erläuterung zu einer abgebildeten Knötel-Tafel (Uniformenkunde VIII, 31): "Grenadier ist derjenige, der die Granaten wirft." Sein Schwerpunkt und seine Stärke liegen hoffentlich in der nachnapoleonischen Zeit, die den Löwenanteil des Seitenumfangs ausmacht.Zitat von Sans-Souci Beitrag anzeigen
Ausgeliehen habe ich das Buch, weil Herbert Knötel irgendwo schreibt, daß zwei Füsilier-Kompanien des Frankfurter Bataillons in Spanien zur Auszeichnung für ein Gefecht Grenadiersepauletten verliehen bekamen. Leider hab ich im Buch dazu nichts gefunden.
Kann jemand diese Frankfurter Füsiliere mit Grenadiersepauetten bestätigen ? Für welches Gefecht geschah das, und wer veranlaßte (und wer bezahlte) die Auszeichnung ?
Nachtrag: Die zwei Füsilier-Kompanien waren wohl ein Erinnerungs-Fehler von mir, tut mir leid.Kommentar
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I wonder if this is an error perhaps a misinterpretation of an event at Talavera where sections of 2 companies reinforced the decimated grenadier company.
From Sauzey:
Battle of Talavera-de-la-Reina (26 July) SauzeyFrankfurtChapter6.pdf
The 4th Corps attacked at 10 o'clock. The objective of the German Division was the great enemy battery, on which it marched through difficult terrain, planted with vineyards and olive trees. The voltigeurs were the vanguard. Nassau was on the right, Holland and Baden in the center, Hesse and Frankfurt on the left. While Nassau won a brilliant advantage and captured an English regiment, Colonel Porbeck of Baden was killed in leading his regiment, and his death demoralizes his troops, who soon recoiled, dragging the regiment of Holland into their retreat. This gap in the line of battle of the German Division allowed the enemy to take Nassau in flank, and General von Schäffer could not preserve more than 67 of his prisoners... Primate and Hesse formed a square: they were charged three times by the enemy cavalry; Primate was on the front of the square: its grenadiers, decimated, were reinforced by a section of the first and one of the second company...1 captain and 43 men were killed; Lieutenant-Colonel Welsch, 4 officers and 64 men were injured...
the only mention of clothing I could see was prior:
Battle of Medellin (28 March)
After the battle, the battalion of Frankfurt received good shoes and a new outfit: these shoes were taken from the feet of the Spaniards killed; with their brown coats, they made pants (culottes) for the troop, and the blue cloth that was requisitioned was used to make coats. The former white uniform of the battalion disappeared completely, and was replaced by a blue pants and a blue coat, the latter with red collar, lapel and seams; instead of the blue breeches it also wore white or blue trousers, falling over the gaiter. Soon after, the hats were replaced by shakos; grenadiers, voltigeurs and fusiliers, all took the insignia of the corresponding troops of France; however, they kept their national coat of arms on the plates of the shakos carved in half-moons: the old Wheel of Mainz.Zuletzt geändert von Prince of Essling; 24.10.2025, 23:40.Kommentar
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Thanks, here what Herbert Knötel himself wrote:
Infanterie 3.jpg
Richard Tennant wrote in an article for the Journal of the Napoleonic Association, Second Series, No. 9, with the title: "The German and Dutch Troops in Spain
No 1: Events of 1808-9; Troops of Frankfurt and Holland" (source is probably Bueno and Achard), that it might have been the 3rd company:
Zwischenablage01.jpg
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From Napoleon Series Archive 2013
"Grossherzoglich Frankfurtische, fürstlich Primatische Soldaten 1806-1813" by Peter Wacker, from Nr. 304 of the Zeitschrift für Heereskunde (1982), pp. 138 through 141:
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