Bavarian Army

Bavarian Army
Flag of a Royal Bavarian Army Infantry Regiment bearing King Ludwig's royal monogram
Active1682–1919
Country Electorate of Bavaria
 Kingdom of Bavaria
AllegianceKing of Bavaria
BranchArmy
Garrison/HQMunich
EngagementsGreat Turkish War
War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Austrian Succession
Seven Years' War
War of the Bavarian Succession
Napoleonic Wars
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
World War I
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Maximilian II
Karl von Wrede
Jakob von Hartmann
Ludwig von der Tann
Oskar von Xylander

The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty (Wehrhoheit) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919. The Bavarian Army was never comparable to the armies of the Great Powers of the 19th century, but it did provide the Wittelsbach dynasty with sufficient scope of action, in the context of effective alliance politics, to transform Bavaria from a territorially-disjointed small state to the second-largest state of the German Empire after Prussia.