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old-Mark.] Ö E R M A N T.
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them to carry on their hufinefs either as burghers or peafants. The abovementioned
army has conlifted of 10340 cuirafllers, 11938 dragoons, 10 116
huffars and 1,13,856 foot; among which were 4423 fuperior officers and
10040 inferior ones. A regiment of cuiraffiers coniift« of five fquadrons,
a regiment of dragoons of ten, and a regiment of hullirs of the like number.
A fquadron again of the two firfl: contains one hundred and fixty-fix
men, and a fquadron of the laft one hundred and fourteen complete. A
regiment of foot confifts ufually of two battalions, each of which comprizes
in it fix companies, that is to fay, one of grenadiers and five of mufquetiers.
Two of the Frußan regiments, however, confift of three battalion
namely, the regiment of the guards and that of Anhalt-Deffau. A field
battalion contains in it eight hundred and fixty-four, and a garrifon-batta
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feven hundred and twenty.
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The Electoral
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L The Old-Mark.
§. I. '"T^HIS Mark is divided, towards the eaft, by the Elbe, from the
-• Frignitz and the dutchy of Magdeburg, being terminated alfo by
the latter to the fouth and in part likewife to the weft, but in other parts
by the dutchy oi Lüneburg, with which, in 1691 and 1692, a boundary recefs
was concluded. It was formerly larger than at prefent, divers places havinobelonged
thereto which are now partly annexed to the dutchy of Lüneburg,
and partly aUb to the once archbifhopiic, but at prefent to the dutchy,
of Magdeburg. Its extent now, from eaft to weft, or from JVerben on the
Elbe to the cloyfter of DieliorJ, amounts to nine German miles ; and from
north to fouth, that is, from the village of Strefo^u near Snackenbiirg to
Urßeben near Erxleben, to eleven.
§.2. It was anciently a part of Saxony, and therein of Eaßphalia, or
Eaß-SaxGuy. In the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it was
either fimply called the Mark, or the North-Mark ; but in a couple of records
bearing date in 11 96 and 1197, Ducatus Tranfalbhius ; and in the
provincial recefies of the Mark, the country beyond the Elbe ; and laft of all the
Old-Mark. The laft of thefe names was firft given it after the year 1325,
at which time Duke Otto the Liberal, of Brmifwick, who had obtained
this country by his marriage with his confort jigfies, widow to the Marggrave
JValdemar, the laft of the ylfcanian race, to whom it was bequeathed
as a jointure, ftiled himfelf Lord of the Old^Mark^ in order thereby to d:--
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