IR 7

The 7th Infantry Regiment was a regiment from Karinthia, headquartered in Graz. One of its battalions was stationed in Klagenfurt. I have already written about the regiment here. The Khevenhüller Castle, which can be seen on the postcard attached to the post, was also mentioned.

This post includes the regiment’s flag badge. This is special because the Arkanzas company made flag badges almost exclusively for Hungarian regiments (for all of them). In addition, only a few Austrian regiments were served with this type of badge. One of these was the 7th.

The post is also supplemented by a letter seal commemorating the event of the regiment’s anniversary. On May 29, 1848, the troops (16,000 men) fighting in Northern Italy under the command of General Radetzky defeated the significantly smaller 5,000-man Italian (Tuscan) corps in the Battle of Curtatone-Montanara. Perhaps the most important result of the battle was that the future emperor, Franz Joseph, saw military action for the first time here.