Trabant (military)
A trabant (Ital. trabanti, from the German traben, Lat.: satellites) was a historical name for an attendant or a
The trabant guards frequently formed the core of
In the order of battle in 1682 for the newly created Royal Saxon Army there were 172 horses listed in the Trabant Horse Guards (Trabanten-Leibgarde zu Roß) as well as 65 men in the Trabant Foot Guards (Leibgarde der Fuß-Trabanten).[3] Charles XII of Sweden made himself the captain over the reformed Drabant Corps in 1700, which had a lot of initial success in the Great Northern War. In 1701, the Saxon Gardes du Corps was formed out of the Saxon trabants. This Saxon regiment met its end in the 1812 French invasion of Russia under Napoleon. In the endless march on Moscow and the subsequent retreat, almost all the trabants lost their lives. The Elector did not reinstate this guards regiment.[4]
References
Literature
- Johannes Anton Larraß: Geschichte des Königlich Sächsischen 6. Infanterie-Regiments Nr 105 und seine Vorgeschichte 1701 bis 1887. Druck: H. L. Kayser, Strassburg i. E., 1887.
- Sachsens-Militär-Vereinskalender Jahrgang 1915, Buchdruckerei Der Kamarad, Hrsg. F.L. Staub, Dresden (1914)