Dalregementet Dalregementet ( Dalarna Regiment ) , designations I 13 and I 13 / Fo 53 , was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traced its origins back to the 16th century . It was disbanded in 2000 . The regiment ' s soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Dalarna , and it was later garrisoned there . History . The regiment has its origins in fänikor ( companies ) raised in Dalarna in 1542 . During 1598 , some of the units participated in the War against Sigismund and in 1605 one fänika from Dalarna fought at the Battle of Kircholm . In 1615 , these units — along with fänikor from the nearby provinces of Uppland and Västmanland — were organised by Gustav II Adolf into Upplands storregemente , of which 1 , 400 of the total 3 , 000 soldiers were recruited in Dalarna . Upplands storregemente consisted of three field regiments , of which Dalregementet was one . Dalregementet was also the first Swedish regiment to be allotted , which happened as early as in 1621 . Parts of this grand regiment participated in the Polish – Swedish wars during the siege of Riga in 1621 and as garrison from 1626 – 1629 . During this period , sometime between 1623 and 1628 , the grand regiment was permanently split into three smaller regiments , of which Dalregementet was one . The regiment ' s first commander was Axel Oxenstierna . The regiment was shipped to Germany and arrived at Wolgast in June 1631 to participate in the Thirty Years ' War . Its first major battle was the Battle of Breitenfeld on 17 September that same year , where it stood in the first line . It also stood in the first line as part of the Swedish Brigade at the Battle of Lützen the next year , a battle which caused heavy casualties to the regiment . The regiment ' s " creator " , Gustav II Adolf , was killed in a cavalry charge trying to ease the pressure on Dalregementet ' s part of the front . The regiment returned to Sweden to replenish shortly after and remained at home until 1638 , when one of the regiment ' s two battalion s was sent as garrison to Stettin . Dalregementet was one of the original 20 Swedish infantry regiments mentioned in the Swedish constitution of 1634 . Carl Gustaf Wrangel was the commander from 1639 on . The second battalion was sent to Germany in 1642 , and the whole regiment fought at the Battle of Leipzig that year , only to return to Sweden again the following year . They were present during the siege of Landskrona in 1644 during the short Torstenson War . Dalregementet was shipped to Pomerania in 1655 following the outbreak of the Northern Wars . The regiment was part of the army that sieged and captured Marienburg in 1656 , after which one of the battalions was sent to reinforce the garrison in Riga while the other participated in the attack on Copenhagen in 1659 . In preparation for the Scanian War , one of the battalions was sent back to Germany in 1674 , and was once again put under command of Carl Gustaf Wrangel , who led a thrust into Brandenburg , which ended in the Battle of Fehrbellin . The other battalion was used in Scania in the Battles of Halmstad , Lund and Landskrona in 1676 – 1677 . A temporarily raised reserve regiment of eight companies was used against Norway in the Battle of Uddevalla . When the Great Northern War started , Dalregementet was under the command of Magnus Stenbock and was used against Denmark but was soon sent to the Baltic region , taking part in the Battle of Narva in 1700 and skirmishes in Livonia , amongst them the Crossing of Daugava in 1701 . In 1702 , the regiment received orders to join the main army at Warsaw . The regiment took part in the Battle of Kliszów , but was sent back to the Baltics for periods between 1702 and 1705 . It then was subordinated to the main army that fought at Holovczyn , Malatitze and finally at the Battle of Poltava , where the regiment surrendered to the Russia ns . The regiment was reformed with new recruits in Sweden in 1710 and was sent to Pomerania and the Battle of Gadebusch in 1712 . Dalregementet once again had to surrender , this time in 1713 after the Battle of Tönningen . The regiment was reformed a second time , and took part in both the 1716 and 1718 attacks on Norway . The next action of the regiment was in 1741 during the Hats ' Russian War and the Battle of Villmanstrand , the last of the regiment ' s major battles . In 1758 the regiment was shipped to Pomerania yet again , this time to participate in the Seven Years ' War , but Dalregementet saw no major battles during that war . In Gustav III ' s Russian War , Dalregementet was initially positioned along the southern Finnish coast but was later transferred to the inland , where several minor skirmishes took place during 1790 . One of the battalions was involved in the First War against Napoleon , fighting minor battles against Norwegian troops which ended with the whole battalion being captured in early 1808 . The final battle of Dalregementet was during the Campaign against Norway in 1814 , in the Battle of Kjölbergs bro , one of the last battles Sweden fought before adopting a policy of neutrality . The regiment was given the designation I 13 ( 13th Infantry Regiment ) in a general order in 1816 . Dalregementet was garrisoned in Falun from 1908 . In 1973 , the regiment gained the new designation I 13 / Fo 53 as a consequence of a merge with the local defence area Fo 53 . The regiment was disbanded in 2000 . www . dalregementetsmuseer . se