3rd Swiss Regiment Reding

Swiss Regiment No. 3 (Spanish: Regimiento Suizo de Reding n ° 3) was one of the last six Swiss regiments in 1742 were in the service of the Spanish crown in 1835.

History

The " Suizo Regimiento n º 3 " was founded after the surrender of Felipe V in 1742 and existed until 1835. Regiment No. 3 was in 1808 under the leadership of Lieutenant General and later Captain-General Theodor Reding of Biberegg, as the Swiss general the Napoleonic wars in the Spanish service was. In the Battle of Bailen the Swiss regiments were successfully involved. Reding broke at the top of the Swiss regiments of the political myth of the invincibility of the French in the Spanish War of Independence, and as a reward the Swiss regiment with additional Reding was " Regimiento Suizo de Reding n ° 3".

Today there are in the second largest city of Málaga in Andalusia an association " Asociación Histórico " maintains the uniforms and the tradition of Regimiento Suizo de Reding n º 3. In Málaga, a memorial plaque was placed in 2009, Teodoro Reding was governor of Málaga and hero of the Battle of Bailen.