Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The King's German Legion (KGL; German: Des Königs Deutsche Legion) was a formation of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Consisting primarily of expatriate Germans , it existed from 1803 to 1816 and achieved the distinction of being the only German military force to fight without interruption against the ...
This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments [1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction unit, Lehr Infantry Battalion). Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912. [2]
German military personnel killed in World War I (197 P) Pages in category "German military personnel of World War I" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total.
The 1st Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army that served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. [1] The division was formed on November 27, 1815, as the Infantry Division of the Munich General Command ( Infanterie-Division des Generalkommandos München.
In 1805 he participated in the Hanover Expedition, an unsuccessful expedition to northern Germany during the War of the Third Coalition, and a year later he and his battalion moved to Gibraltar. In 1807 they moved again, to Zealand , where they fought against Denmark in the Gunboat War (also known as the English Wars ).
German cavalry of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment in a trench in France in 1916. The 110 active regiments were assigned to the Field Army on mobilisation. Each regiment formed a depot squadron which remained in Germany and took 4 squadrons into the field.
The first Zouave battalion was created in 1831 and changed its recruiting to Europeans in 1841. During the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, effective use was made of Zouaves and Chasseurs à pied (see above) in evolving light infantry tactics that went further than merely screening the main battle line.
The Royal Bavarian 1st and 2nd Snowshoe Battalions (Kgl. Bayerisches Schneeschuhbataillon I & II ) were formed in Munich , Bavaria on 21 November 1914. A third battalion was formed in April 1915 from the 4th, 5th and 6th companies of the second battalion.