Monatliche Listen der Husaren – Husarenregiment (1788) is a series of monthly strength and personnel returns for a Hessian light cavalry regiment, preserved in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg under Bestand 10 g, Nr. 362.
These Monatliche Listen are routine administrative muster rolls compiled to record the regiment’s effective strength on a month-by-month basis. They typically list officers, non-commissioned officers, and troopers, along with changes in personnel due to recruitment, illness, transfers, desertion, discharge, or death. In cavalry units, such reports often also reflect the condition of horses and overall operational readiness, since mounted strength was essential to the regiment’s combat capability.
The Hussar Regiment documented here belonged to the military forces of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and represented a light cavalry formation trained for reconnaissance, screening, raiding, and rapid maneuver operations. Hussars were typically used on the battlefield to gather intelligence, harass enemy movements, and protect the flanks of larger infantry formations.
The year 1788 places the document in a peacetime or pre-conflict phase following major 18th-century wars involving Hessian troops abroad, including service in the American Revolutionary War earlier in the decade. As a result, these monthly lists are particularly valuable for understanding how cavalry regiments were maintained, reorganized, and stabilized after periods of extensive foreign deployment.
