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    Hello friends!

    I just recieved this wonderful army list!!!!!!!!!

    It´s an originally, hand-written one from december 1757 (seventeen-hundred and fiftyseven)!!!!!

    I only made one photo, because I don´t want to strain the binding.

    This page shows the staff officers of the hussards.

    Probably this one is written by a member of the prussian higher command and maybe Frederick the Great hold it in his hands to approve that list!

    I haven´t seen a list of that era before!

    When I first read inside, my blood ran cold and I needed a huge swallow of a very good Calvados!

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    Merci, Christophe! Another point is, those army rank lists are well-known since the era after Napoléon. Relicts from Frederick´ s era are unknown! Until a friend of mine bought 19 of them from a library of the german army. The books were forgotten in the cellar. Now they have been sold to a german museum. Luckily I had the chance to buy one of them for my collection! I am the luckiest man ever after the day of my devorce 19 years ago... :jumping:

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    Hi Chris!

    No, these were 19 different lists from 1755-1790 (or 1788 -I don´t know exactly). My friend wrote that the lists originally belonged to a colonel, which father and grand-father were members of the general-staff (I don´t know the name). He also wrote, that they were written by the "Kriegs-Kolleg" for the closest circle of Frederick the Great.

    I attached two photos, before they were sold to this museum:

    http://www.armeemuseum-plassenburg.de/

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