FREE: "Russian Jaegers 1812". Poscard

During the battle was killed of the lower ranks - 693 and 27 officers. The commander of the 2nd Battalion B. Richter received the Order of St. George of the 4th class for his courage. In the battle of the Red the jaegers captured 31 officers, 700 lower ranks, seized two banners and nine guns. Pursuing enemy, captured another 15 officers, 100 lower ranks and
 three guns. For this operation, KI Bystrom received the Order of St.
 George of the 4th class.
   The regiment had military rewards: silver pipes with an inscription
 <For the distinction made in the Battle of Kulm on August 18
 1813, St. George's flags with the inscription "For hardiness at
 defeat and expulsion of the enemy from the Russia
 1812">. In addition, he was given the title of "Jaeger Campaign" on the french horns.
   With a common Jaeger uniform, the Guards Jaegers Regiment
 had officer's sewing in the form of straight buttonholes, piping and
 shoulder straps of orange color. The jaegers armed were shortened rifles with bayonets and fittings with daggers, which were given to the best marksmen.

Contents of the text translation on the postcard:

12. Staff officer and non-commissioned officer of the Guards Jaeger Regiment.

The jaeger regiments were made up of hunters who fired well, and often acted independently of closed system in the places of the most convenient and most important, in the forests, in the villages, on the passes. Jaegers were required to duty <in ambush quietly lie and keep silence, having always in front of him patrols on foot, in front and on the sides. "
 The jaeger regiments served as a support for the actions of light cavalry.
   In 1812, the Life Guards Regiment of the Jäger Regiment was in the 1st
 Western Army, in the Guards Infantry Division. The regiment commander was Colonel K.I. Bystrom. At the Borodino - field against the russian Jaegers was operated by the french division of Delzon. At even the clerks grabbed the guns of killed comrades and went in the battle.