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* Rittmeister ( cavalry Captain ) Manfred Albrecht Frhr von Richthofen ( 1892 – 1918 ) also known as " The Red Baron ", awarded the 3rd Class, with Crown & Swords, for earning an unprecedented 70th aerial victory as Germany's top fighter ace of the Great War, April 6, 1918.
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Rittmeister and cavalry
In 1744, he married Jacobine von Dunten at Pernigel () near Dunteshof () in Livonia, and in 1750 he was named a Rittmeister, a cavalry captain.
* Rittmeister — Captain, used instead of Hauptmann in the cavalry, reconnaissance, and horse-transport waffen.
He joined the German Army as an officer cadet in 1905, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1906 and served as a cavalry officer during World War I, reaching the rank of Rittmeister.
Rittmeister ( German for " Ride master " or " Cavalry master ") was a military rank of a commissioned cavalry officer in the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Scandinavia, and some other states.
This was similar to calling cavalry Captains Rittmeister ( Ger.
A cavalry patrol, the 1st Squadron of 1st Hanoverian Dragoon Regiment No. 9, led by Rittmeister Oskar von Blumenthal, discovered that 130, 000 French troops were attempting to escape from Metz to join with French forces at Verdun, after suffering several defeats at the front.
* Rittmeister ( later Generalmajor ) Arthur Hay, prior-enlisted cavalry officer, May 12, 1901
This is directly equivalent to the German army calling a cavalry Hauptmann a Rittmeister
Rittmeister and Captain
They are shot down by a German aviator and aristocrat, Rittmeister ( Cavalry Captain ) von Rauffenstein ( Erich von Stroheim ).
Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which Frederick the Great granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ( Cavalry Captain von Blücher can go to the devil ).
He distinguished himself on a number of occasions and was made Cornet in 1644, Captain Lieutenant in 1645 and Rittmeister in 1646.
He transferred to the Guard Squadron in 1858 and later became a Captain ( Rittmeister ) in the 7th Hussars.
* Hauptmann / Rittmeister – Captain
It was not until the appointment of 24-year-old Cavalry Captain ( Rittmeister ) Manfred von Richthofen on 16 January 1917 as Commanding Officer that the unit commenced its path to fame and immortality.
* Cavalry Captain ( Rittmeister ) Manfred von Richthofen
Rittmeister and Manfred
* September 17 – Flying an Albatros D. II, German Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen scores his first kill, shooting down a F. E. 2b of the Royal Flying Corpss No. 11 Squadron over Villers-Plouich, France, and mortally wounding its two-man crew.
Rittmeister and von
Soon it became known that the charges were false — the file was about a Rittmeister von Frisch.
Rittmeister and also
From August 17, 1908, he was also a Rittmeister and later Major in the 11th " Moravia " Austro-Hungarian Dragoons.
Rittmeister and Red
She became engaged to Rehmer late in 1941 while they were working together in the " Rittmeister Group " with the Red Orchestra resistance group against the Nazi régime.
Rittmeister and awarded
* Rittmeister Richard Franz Joseph Haegele, awarded the 4th Class, 10 / 21 / 1901, for service as commander of the East Asian Field Bakery in the Prussian Army ; Later awarded the 4th Class with Swords, for actions in South West Africa ( modern day Namibia )
Rittmeister and for
On 14 October 1941, Rittmeister Graf Solms-Laubach commanded the evacuation of 27 crates to Königsberg in East Prussia, for storage and display in the town's castle.
Rittmeister and .
Ich bin ein guter Wachtmeister und dürfte leicht ein schlechter Rittmeister und sicherlich noch ein schlechtrer General werden.
He won his commission at the great Battle of Vienna in the following year ; and during seven years of campaigning in Hungary rose to the rank of Rittmeister.
* Rittmeister Brand.
At the same time, the companies of foreign mercenaries were formed ; these incorporated foreign ranks of Lieutenant and Rittmeister.
* Der Rittmeister Militaria, LLC.
Two years later, on October 27, 1905 he was promoted to Rittmeister and on October 26, 1906 to Major.
cavalry and Captain
The Sikh sowars of the Frontier Force cavalry, led by Captain Arthur Sandeman of The Central India Horse ( 21st King George V's Own Horse ), charged in the old style with sabres and most were killed.
A company led by Captain Jean Danjou, numbering 62 soldiers and 3 officers, was escorting a convoy to the besieged city of Puebla when it was attacked and besieged by two thousand revolutionaries, organised in three battalions of infantry and cavalry, numbering 1, 200 and 800 respectively.
On July 2, concurrent with the Battle of Gettysburg in neighboring Adams County, Captain Ulric Dahlgren's Federal cavalry patrol galloped into Greencastle's town square, where they surprised and captured several Confederate cavalrymen carrying vital correspondence from Richmond.
The first record of white settlers in the region dates from 1866, when Captain James Andrus led a group of cavalry to the headwaters of the Escalante River.
At the close of the war, Lt. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captain Braxton Bragg in the 3rd U. S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted to cavalry duty, protecting the Western mail routes through Nevada to California.
He carried a letter with him addressed to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment, Captain von Wessenig.
" These guns were from C Troop, Royal Horse Artillery under Captain Brandling, whose 24-pounders dissuaded Ryzhov's cavalry from reforming and charging again.
Buller got him a job as Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters on 24 August 1895, writing a new cavalry training manual ( in practice extensively assisted by Captain Douglas Haig ).
During the afternoon, Confederate forces under Captain William N. Robinson counterattacked with less than 100 cavalry, driving Branson back to White's Ranch, where the fighting stopped for the night.
Most of the prisoners escaped when Ketchum himself, having briefly rejoined Jesup, ran into an enemy unit while trying to return to the main body of the American army, although Riall and militia cavalry leader Captain William Hamilton Merritt remained prisoners.
Ernest learned cavalry drill and tactics under Captain von Linsingen of the Queen's Light Dragoons, and proved to be an excellent horseman as well as a good shot.
After the arsenal seizure, McRea returned to White County and organized a volunteer cavalry troop, the Border Rangers, in Searcy Arkansas in April 1861 where he was elected and served as Captain.
At the outbreak of War, Guérisse was serving as a Medecin-Capitaine, a Captain in the Medical Branch, as the medical officer of the Guides, a Belgian cavalry regiment.
The ford was named after Captain Elijah V. White, a Confederate cavalry officer and leader of the cavalry battalion known as the Comanches.
Captain William J. Fetterman was sent from Fort Phil Kearny with two civilians and 79 cavalry and infantrymen to chase away a small Indian war party that had attacked a wood party days before.
It achieved its greatest fame when a member, Captain Francis de Groot, an Irish-born veteran of the First World War and furniture maker, sneaked into the official ceremonial parade on horseback at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his old 15th Hussars uniform and slashed the opening ribbon with a cavalry sword before Premier Jack Lang had the chance.
The next heir appears to have been Captain Francis Stewart of Coldingham, a cavalry officer who commanded the royalist left wing at the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679, and who seems to have died around 1683 ; the male line has not been traced beyond this point.
In the van were Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee's Legion plus 73 infantry and 72 cavalry of South Carolina State troops under Lieutenant Colonel John Henderson and Captain Wade Hampton, respectively.
Lee's cavalry were led by Major Joseph Egleston and his infantry by Captain Rudolph.
At around 8 a. m. on September 8, Captain John Coffin and a detachment of his South Carolina Loyalist cavalry were reconnoitring ahead of Stewart ’ s main force when he encountered a mounted American scouting party under Major John Armstrong.
These records confirm his service as a lieutenant in Captain W. B. Barrow's company of a Louisiana cavalry regiment, for all practical purposes a loosely-organized band of irregulars or " scouts " ( guerrillas ).
McCulloch was then attached to Captain William H. Smith's cavalry company, but left the army to revisit Tennessee.
For his part, after the Minister of War appointed Baltasar Hidalgo as the new Captain General for Madrid, he ordered Brigadier Carmona and a battalion of infantry and various artillery and cavalry units, to march on the militiamen.
The cavalry combined, in whole or in part, elements of Captain Kinloch's independent troop of New York Dragoons, the Philadelphia Light Dragoons, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the Prince of Wales ' American Volunteers, and the 16th Light Dragoons.
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