Listele de recruţi din două regimente habsburgice (1804-1805)
Recruitment lists of two Habsburg Regiments (1804-1805)

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the recruitment lists of two cavalry regiments of the Habsburg army (the regular 7th Hussar Regiment and the 11th Border Guard Hussar Regiment) from the years 1804-1805.Besides major changes in warfare, military organization and borders shifts in Europe, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars brought a dramatic increase of the numbers of French soldiers available on the battlefield. This situation forced the countries that were at war with the new France that had emerged from the French Revolution to implement reforms. Among these countries was the Habsburg Monarchy, which included both the Hungarian Kingdom and the Great Principality of Transylvania.I chose the above mentioned time span because these years marked the end of the first period of reorganization that tried to renew the Habsburg army, which had previously been defeated by France in the first two Wars of Coalition. I was interested in the types of the recruitment lists that were used at the time and I was also curious if these documents contained any kind of medical information about the recruits.

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