Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-26

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! England long held the command Of
regiment; Dowager Queen Marga-
ret of Italy is colonel of the Eleventh
| battalion of Prussian Light infantry;
| Queen Charlotte of Wurtemburg is
| in command of the regiment which
was tho favorite of the kaiser's faith
| er. the Second Wurtemburg Regiment
! Of Lancers; Wilhemina of Holland
commands the Fifteenth Prussian
/ Hussars and her mother. the Dow
ager Queen Emma, the Second West
phalian infantry.
] The regiment which guards the car
| riage of Mary Queen of England
when she pays n visit to the court
of Berlin is her own Fifth Frussian
| Hussars. The kaisers wife, Augusta
| Victoria. commands the Eighty-s Nth
| regiment of Prussian fusiliers. one Of
| the crack regiments of the Prussian
army. In addition to this signal hon
| OF. the kaiserin also is granted ID
| commission in the Russian army as
colonel OF the Hussars of the Guard
| of Grondo. Carmen Sylvia. The fam
| Gus queen q Roumania, dear to all
| soldiers because OF her devotion and
| self sacrifice during the war of 1877.
| is in command of the Second Batta-
| lion of Light Roumanian infantry.
| One of these famous European Mill
| tary women has recently come To
! Canada The Duchess of Connaught.
wife of the new governor general of
| the Dominion, is the nominal head
OF n regiment long famous across the
wa ter. Her Sixty-fourth regiment Of
| Prussian infantry was the favorite of
her father. Prince Frederick Charles
Of Prussia Prince Frederick Charles
vas the field marshal in the German
army who in the -Prussian
| war. at the head of this regiment.
succeeded in capturing Metz after re-
| eated failures on the part of other
officers. The result practically as
snred the success of the German arms
in that war.
! The only woman to hold any Of
fee in a European navy and the only
| woman to boast the title of admiral
| il Queen olga uf Greece. Queen Olga
| i most beloved by sailors because of
her benefactions and it is said that
i she is especially favorable to the sail
| ors of the tsar who become stranded
ia Athens. This is rendered the more
{
late Tsar Alexander III. Her inter
| est in naval matters is no doubt in
/ Eerited as her father. the late Grand
| Duke Constantin Niehelaeviteh, was
{ n admiral in the Russian navy.
| Queen Olga's flagship is the armored
cruiser Admiral Makarov.
The greater number of these women
folonels are in the German army.
Indeed the idea of bestowing such an
honor upon woman originated with
| 10 less d parsonage than King Fred
erick William " of Prussia. Now
| Frederick William. in his younger
| GAYS. was a dashing, devil-may~eare
| FELLOW who didn't give a rap what
| anybody thought or said, seldom took
advice because he thought his opin-
ions only worth while and raid no
iattention to any kind of gossip. He
| had a pretty sister, Princess Char
lotte, who was as bold and energetic
as he and was altogether a girl after
his own heart.
| Princess Charlotte loved the out
of-doors, rode her splendid charger
astride, followed the hunt with the
first of the field, attended every mill
! tary review and cheered among the
leudest when a crack regiment passed.
! so fondly did the emperor cherish this
pretty, dashing sister that he permit
J ted her the choice of her husband.
by no means the practice among roy
| atty in those days, nor did she dis
appoint her brother in her choice.
| she married Tsar Nicholas /, of
Russia, the finest soldier in all Eu-
| rope Tt was. as might have been
expected, a marriage of true love.
| the royal pair were in every respect
| eongenial and as mark of his
| esteem for his new brother-in-law,
| Frederick William bestowed upon
| Nicholas the command of his famous
regiment OF cuirassiers. The tsar
| held this commission until his death;
| thereupon the kaiser, who WAS fond
Of the unusual, created the sensation
| of his life by turning over the COM
mand of the tsar's famous regiment
| TO the widow 1t was the best regi-
ment in the Prussiaf army. All the
men were chosen because of their
| fine bearing and great stature. They
were a regiment of stalwarts, and In
! the field fought as probably no other
| soldiers ever fought, except, perhaps,
the Old Guard of Napoleon. In APP
| pearance, personnel and equipment,
| the Russian army had nothing else
| to compare with it, Organized by
Frederick the Great. who secured all
| Europe for giants to fill the ranks
OF his pet regiment, it had carefully
been kept up to it's high standard
and it's bestowal upon the princess
| was the highest honor that could
have been awarded her. She was de-
| lighted and the soldiers We're rs much
| pleased. When they passed the re-
| view stand and realized that they
| were under the gaze of the beautiful
princess colonel they were even more
proud than when they We're in COM
mand of the Tsar of all the Russas.
| The influence of Frederick Williams
example in placing his beautiful sis
| ter in command of a crack regiment
| spread all over Europe and has en-
| dured to this day.
The effect upon the service has
| been most wholesome. Soldiers who
| had fought hard and We're proud OF
their achievements regarded ii as a
| re-yn rd of their merit that they should