The regiment was a cavalry unit raised in the 17th century for the Imperial Habsburg Army. Over time, this unit became the 8th Bohemian Dragoons within the "Common Army" that formed part of the Austro
Illustration of a regimental trooper in 1734
Historic portrait of the founder Raimondo Montecuccoli
Battle of White Mountain, 1620
Siege of Philippsburg Fortress
Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devo
8th Bohemian Dragoons (Count Montecuccoli's)
…in 1683 because the unit had been first disbanded in 1679. In 1619, the Lower Austrian Protestant estates tried to obtain concessions from Emperor Ferdinand II at Hofburg Palace through the so-called storm petition (Sturmpetition). On that occasion, three squadrons (Fähnlein) of Dampierre's Regiment of…
Portrait of Ferdinand, c. 1614
Portrait of Ferdinand in his twenties, c. 1598–1605
Graz in the mid-17th century
The meeting of Emperor Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and his brother, Archduke Matthias near Prague in 1608