Artillery Regiment (1636)

The Artillery Regiment (Swedish: Artilleriregementet) was a Swedish Army artillery regiment that traced its origins back to the 17th century. It split into four artillery regiments in 1794. The regiment's soldiers were recruited from the whole country, and it was garrisoned at several locations.

Artillery Regiment
Artilleriregementet
Active1636–1794
Country Sweden
BranchSwedish Army
TypeArtillery
SizeRegiment

History

The regiment has its origins in an artillery company raised in Stockholm in 1623. The regiment Fältartilleriregementet was then organised in 1630 to follow Gustav II Adolf in the Thirty Years' War, and in 1636, all Swedish artillery was brought together under one commander. From 1689, Artilleriregementet was organised in peacetime, with field artillery in Stockholm, Jönköping and Malmö, and fortress artillery on over 30 locations in the Swedish Empire.

During the Great Northern War the artillery had been greatly diminished and was completely reorganised in 1718 into one field establishment and twelve fortress establishments located in Stockholm, Jönköping, Malmö, Halmstad, Varberg, Gothenburg, Kalmar, Kristianstad, Landskrona, Marstrand, Bohus and Sundsborg. The regiment had 3,200 men organised into 40 companies in 1792. Two years later in 1794, it was reorganised into four new regiments, Svea Artillery Regiment, Göta Artillery Regiment, Wendes Artillery Regiment and Finnish Artillery Regiment.

Campaigns

Name, designation and garrison
NameTranslationFromTo
FältartilleriregementetField Artillery Regiment1630–1689
ArtilleriregementetArtillery Regiment1689–1794-06-22
DesignationFromTo
No designation–
Training ground
or garrison town		FromTo
Various, mainly Stockholm (G)1636–1794-06-22
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See also

References
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