joerookery
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I think the medals are very germane to this subject. The question is, who received them. Did you have to be a resident of Hesse Darmstadt to get this medal? Who paid for it? Were there people other than residents of Hesse Darmstadt, who received this medal? Why? For some reason, the grand Duke was given permission through an AKO to make uniform changes for some of the units. Why him and not the other princes?
In the world of continuing trivia:
Here is an interesting little Passage about the duchy of Nassau who was part of this Hessian mess.
In the world of continuing trivia:
In the war of 1866 Frankfurt was on the Austrian side. On the 16th of July the Prussian troops, under General Vogel von Falkenstein entered the town. A fine of 25,000,000 florins was exacted. Rather than pay in full the city voted itself out of existence and into a union with Prussia, which reduced the fine to 6 million florins. On the 18th of October it was formally incorporated with the Prussian state. In 1871 the treaty which concluded the Franco-German War was signed in the Swan Hotel by Prince Bismarck and Jules Favre, and it is consequently known as the peace of Frankfurt.
Here is an interesting little Passage about the duchy of Nassau who was part of this Hessian mess.
In 1866 Duke Adolph joined the cause of Austria, sent his troops into the field and asked the landtag for money after-the-fact. This was refused by the two chambers of parliament. Adolph became a fugitive and fled from the Prussian troops. On the 3rd of October 1866 Nassau was formally incorporated with the kingdom of Prussia. The deposed Duke Adolph entered in 1867 into an agreement with Prussia by which he retained a few castles and received an indemnity for renouncing his claim to the Duchy of Nassau. In 1890 he became Grand-Duke of Luxemburg.