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4th Dragoons: Col Lord Edward Somerset; G. Anson's Brigade Maj Gen George Anson. 11th Light Dragoons; 12th (Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons; 16th (Queen's) Light Dragoons; von Alten's Brigade Maj Gen Victor von Alten (w) 14th Light Dragoons: Lt Col Hervey; 1st Hussars, King's German Legion; Bock's Brigade Maj Gen Baron Bock. 1st Dragoons ...
Dettingen, Waterloo, Second Boer War, El Alamein. The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) was a heavy cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1661 as the Tangier Horse. It served for three centuries and was in action during the First and the Second World Wars. It was amalgamated with the Royal Horse Guards to form The Blues ...
Göhrde (3rd Regiment of Hussars) Commanders. Notable. commanders. Charles Alten. Henry de Hinuber. Monument to the Hanoverians in Waterloo (1818) The King's German Legion (KGL; German: Des Königs Deutsche Legion) was a British Army formation consisting of expatriate German soldiers which existed from 1803 to 1816. It achieved the distinction ...
The Battle of Talavera (27–28 July 1809) was fought just outside the town of Talavera de la Reina, Spain some 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Madrid, during the Peninsular War. At Talavera, a British army under Sir Arthur Wellesley combined with a Spanish army under General Cuesta fought in operations against French-occupied Madrid.
1 Regiment. Nickname (s) Hawks[1] The Emperor's Chambermaids. The 14th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1715. It saw service for two centuries, including the First World War, before being amalgamated with the 20th Hussars to form the 14th/20th King's Hussars in 1922.
The British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars experienced a time of rapid change. At the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, the army was a small, awkwardly administered force of barely 40,000 men. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the numbers had vastly increased. At its peak, in 1813, the regular army ...
Overview. The Peninsular War was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars, waged between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal. It started when French and Spanish armies, then allied, occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its ...
The 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army first formed in 1715. It saw service for three centuries, including the First World War and the Second World War. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, but was slated for reduction in the 1957 Defence White Paper, and was ...