Category:Potsdam giants
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Deutsch: Das altpreußische Infanterieregiment No. 6 wurde 1675 gegründet und bestand bis 1806, als es als Folge der preußischen Niederlage im Krieg gegen Frankreich aufgelöst wurde.
English: The Potsdam Giants was the Prussian infantry regiment No 6, composed of taller-than-average soldiers. The regiment was founded in 1675 and dissolved in 1806 after the Prussian defeat against Napoleon. Throughout the reign of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (1688–1740) the unit was known as the "Potsdamer Riesengarde" ("giant guard of Potsdam") in German, but the Prussian population quickly nicknamed them the Lange Kerls ("long guys").
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Media in category "Potsdam giants"
The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total.
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Lange Kerls Grenadier Jonas Erikson.JPG 1,307 × 3,472; 1.67 MB
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Lange Kerls Grenadier.JPG 1,318 × 2,540; 1.49 MB
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Langer Kerl Schwerid Rediwanoff.jpg 2,208 × 6,098; 6.16 MB
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1737 Lisiewski Grenadier Lange Kerls anagoria.JPG 1,746 × 4,188; 4.25 MB
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1718 Merk Grenadier Lange Kerls anagoria.JPG 2,208 × 6,088; 6.81 MB
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Langer Kerl James Kirkland.jpg 720 × 1,902; 227 KB
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Lange Kerls Grenadier Heinrich Wilhelm Wagenführer.JPG 1,315 × 3,421; 2.22 MB
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Hohenfriedeberg - Attack of Prussian Infantry - 1745.jpg 1,019 × 713; 533 KB
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BASA-3K-7-355-37-Cultural review of the nations in Hamburg, 1936.jpg 4,153 × 2,001; 1.38 MB
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