First Battalion, Regiment Number 16 Marquis Lusignan

And so to the next unit in the Austrian expansion, the first battalion of Regiment Number 16, Marquis Lusignan, with its pale yellow facings. Astute readers might have realised that the grenadiers from this regiment formed a part of the combined Grenadier Battalion Welsberg that was presented last week.

The regiment was raised in Styria in 1766. Between 1778 and 1799 it was known as Freiherr Terzi after Feldmarschalleutnent Ludwig Terzi. Renamed Erzherzog Rudolph in 1802 and then Marquis Lusignan in 1806, it was engaged at Raab then spent the rest of the Napoleonic wars in Italy. It was disbanded in 1832.