THE PRUSSIAN

JAGER BATAlLLON ‘VON REICHE’

IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1813 - 1814

translated by Geert van Uythoven

Anonymous: “Ausgezeignete Thaten betreffend das Jäger-Bataillons von Reiche”:

1.

“During the siege of Zutphen on 23 November 1813, Port-Fähndrich von Zievet noticed, after the battalion had been pushed back from the main wall by superior numbers, that his friend the volunteer Jäger Hieronimy was lying wounded down the slope. Yelling that ‘we cannot let Hieronimy behind’, determined he turned back, and carried his friend on his shoulders, through heavy musketry, back out of range of the enemy.

The Oberjäger Seifried and Erdmann and the carpenter Benninges at front, led the storming party with the axe and smashed in the gate of the fortress under heavy fire. The carpenter Schweinicke followed their example, as well as the Jäger Hieronimy, Krückhahn, and Stenck.”

2.

“During the combat near Hoogstraten [11 January 1814], the moment that his skirmishers were heavily pressured by the enemy, Lieutenant Musculus was shot in the leg. Not paying attention to the pain and loss of blood, he ordered to of his men to hold him upright, and continued to command until the enemy was beaten back. Only then he sank to the earth, completely exhausted an unconscious from loss of blood.”

Source: Militair-Wochenblatt, 3. Jahrgang (Berlin 1818), No. 104, pp.616-617.

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