3rd Swiss Regiment Reding

The 3rd Swiss Regiment Reding was a unit of Swiss soldiers in the Spanish Army and one of several Swiss regiments serving the Spanish Crown in the 18th century. The regiment was founded by a royal proclamation of Philip V in 1742 and recruited from the Canton of Schwyz in central Switzerland.

Regimiento Suizo de Reding n.º 3
Regimiento Suizo de Reding nº 3 (2008 re-enactment, Málaga)
Active1742 - 1829
Disbanded1829
Country Spain
AllegianceCrown of Spain
Branch Army
TypeInfantry
RoleFront-line
EngagementsAmerican Revolutionary War
War of the First Coalition

Peninsular War

Commanders
Notable
commanders

Theodor von Reding

It was the third Swiss regiment in service at the time (out of about a dozen or so Swiss Regiments historically) and was the second raising of a regiment under a colonel named Reding. It is therefore either referred to as the 2nd Regiment Reding or the 3rd Swiss Regiment.

See also

  • Army of Spain (Peninsular War)

Notes

  1. Foy, p. 335

References

  • Chartrand, René (1999). The Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-765-8.
  • Foy, Maximilien Sébastien (1827). History of the war in the Peninsula under Napoleon. II. S. and R. Bentley.
  • Gates, David. The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. Da Capo Press 2001. ISBN 0-306-81083-2


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