Found from a reenacting friend! This picture is Jagers from 1784. Beautiful.
Google translate worked pretty well!
History
1631 first Hessian fighter units in the Thirty Years' War
1688 formation of a Jägertruppe (one company hunters on foot and on horseback ) , but it was finally the resolution
1758 Neustiftung
Dissolved in 1763 to huntsman (15 man)
1774-1784 set up again , then released
1786 reorganization as a Rifle Corps
1799 Rifle Battalion
1806 leave of absence
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Organization
1758 only 2 (about 200 men ) , then 6 companies (about 600 men )
1759 Hunters get 2 own artillery
Rifle Corps in 1786 with 1 Company
1787 4 companies
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Chefs
commanders
1758 Major W. Treusch Buttlar
1759 Lieutenant Colonel of Lindau (Last Colonel , 1761 fallen)
1761-1781 Major of Wintzigerode (Last Colonel )
Staff officers in 1760
Commander : Colonel von Lindau
Major knowledge of Bach
Staff officers in 1762
Commander : Major of Wintzigerode
Major of Linsing
Company commander in May 1762
Hunters on foot
1.Kompanie : Major of Linsing
2nd company : Captain Schenck
3.Kompanie : Captain of Wurmb
4.Kompanie : Captain of Bentheim
Hunters on horseback
1.Kompanie : Major of Wintzigerode
2nd company : Captain of steel
Company commander in the Revolutionary War
1.Kompanie : Ecadron or Cavalry, in use from April 1777
2nd company : Captain John Ewald
3.Kompanie : Major Ernst Karl of Prueschenck (Last Lieutenant Colonel ) , in use from April 1777
4.Kompanie : Captain August von Wrede, from August 1776 Colonel Karl Emil von Donop , from April 1777 Captain A. von Wrede, from May 1779 Captain of Rough, vacant from August , 1781, Captain John Henry 1783
5.Kompanie : Captain Frederick Henrich Lorey , from November 1780 Staff Captain Karl Moritz von Donop ( last captain ), from December 1777 in use
6.Kompanie : Major Philip of Wurmb , in use from December 1777
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