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At the Battle of Waterloo, the 2nd Light Battalion – with members of the 1st Light Battalion and the 5th Line Battalion – defended the farmhouse and road at La Haye Sainte. As the 5th Line Battalion under Oberst Ompteda was on its way to reinforce the defenders of Haye Sainte, the French cavalry attached to Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d ...
Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, Waterloo Medal, Royal Guelphic Order (2nd class), King William Cross, Military William Order (3rd class) Konrad Ludwig Georg Baring (8 March 1773, Hannover – 27 February 1848, Wiesbaden , during a spa treatment) was an officer in the army of the Electorate of Hanover and the British army's King's ...
Wellington ordered the 2nd Light Infantry Battalion of the King’s German Legion, commanded by Major Georg Baring, to garrison La Haye Sainte the evening before the battle. Upon arriving at 19:30 amidst heavy rain, Baring ordered the men to begin fortifying the farm complex for defence, in anticipation of an attack the next morning.
10th West Indies Light Battalion (Bataljon West-Indische jagers No. 10) Kolonel Heinz Willem Charles Rancke: 30 officers, 674 men 11th West Indies Light Battalion (Bataljon West-Indische jagers No. 11) Luitenant-Kolonel Frederik Knotzer: 33 officers, 685 men Light Battalion (Bataljon Flankeurs) [g] Kolonel 2e klasse W. Schenck: 29 officers, 507 men
Captain James Dugan Gist of the South Carolina Volunteers Private Eli Franklin of Company B, 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment Private Amos Guise of Co. H, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment Civil War veteran Masten Roe, Co. B, 14th South Carolina Infantry, in U.C.V. uniform with medals
In 2022, the battalion received the Congressional Gold Medal. Charity Adams Earley talks businesses with other Women’s Army Corps members at her desk in Des Moines, Iowa, in the early 1940s ...
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