Cerino-Badone, Swiss Regiments - Libreria Militare Ares

Baden-Dourlac 38 . The only Swiss regiment that occurred the same fate was the unlucky Regiment
Keller.
Conclusions
The Swiss soldiers were a veritable army into the army, distinguished by lavish wages, ample
privileges and the right to pursue justice by its courts. They made their fortunes in the kingdom of
Sardinia thanks to a human capital rich of a military experience of immediate use and great value.
Inside the Sabaudian army different military units, like the Swiss regiments, different in culture,
language and traditions coexisted, according to a phenomenon far more widespread than we might
think today, conditioned as we are by ideas of national belonging alien to the XVIII century society.
The kings of Sardinia over the heterogeneity of their army had built their strength, a characteristic
that during the next century was not understood and, indeed, intensely criticized 39 .
38 The dismissal of the regiment caused frictions between Prince Karl Wilhelm Eugen, prince of Baden-Dourlac and
Hochberg, and Charles Emmanuel III. Despite the discord, the prince, former Brigadier General, was promoted to
Major General the 28 March 1748, Lieutenant General the 14 February 1749, then General of Infantry the 6 March
1771. ASTO, Corte, Materie Militari, Levata Truppe Straniere, Mazzo I d’addizione, Promemoria del Principe di
Baden contenente alcune rimostranze dal medesimo fatte all’occasione della riforma del suo Reggimento. Colle
determinazioni date da S.M. in proposito.
39 In particularly Ferdinando Augusto Pinelli, Storia militare del Piemonte in continuazione di quella del Saluzzo, cioé
dalla Pace d’Aquisgrana sino ai dì nostri, Vol. I, Torino 1854. A more balanced analysis is in Bianchi, “Baron Litron”,
pp. 5-9.
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