Kalisch Review
The Kalisch Review was a set of military manoeuvres held at
Russian Imperial Army. Its motto was "Aus inniger Vereinigung entsteht wirkliche Kraft" (From intimate union arises real power). 60,000 troops, over 7,000 horses and over 136 artillery-pieces were involved. This included over 4,500 Prussian soldiers.[1]
In the aftermath of the
Cossack and Circassian horsemen. The Prussians were commanded by the future William I and the supreme commander of the Review was Nicholas I of Russia.[2]
The high-point of the review was on 18 September, with over 2,000 military musicians performing a concert, including the premiere of the previously-lost march written by Frederick William III of Prussia when he was only ten - it was later adopted as a presentation-march by most of the Prussian regiments and is still played by Germany's Bundeswehr. The Review concluded with a huge firework display, costing 100,000 Taler and involving 45,000 rockets and 12,000 pounds of gunpowder - the largest rockets were three-pounders.
References
- ^ (in German) Michael Elstermann: „Die große Revue in Kalisch 1835“ oder „Das Lustlager zu Ehren der Russisch-Preußischen Waffenbrüderschaft“; in: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde, Nr. 430, Oktober/Dezember 2008
- ^ (in German) C. v. Decker: Die Truppen-Versammlung bei Kalisch im Sommer 1835. Nach den besten, an Ort und Stelle eingesammelten Materialien, aus militair-historischen Gesichtspunkte bearbeitet. [Selbstverlag], in Kommission bei J. H. Bon, Königsberg 1835.