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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 ...
The KGL brigade was made up of the 1st and 2nd KGL Light and 1st, 2nd and 5th KGL Line Battalions. Pack's brigade comprised two battalions each of the 1st and 16th Portuguese Line Infantry Regiments and the 4th Caçadores Battalion. Bradford's brigade had two battalions each of the 13th and 24th Portuguese Line and the 5th Caçadores.
Behind them was Bock's brigade under Colonel de Jonquières, consisting of the 1st and 2nd King's German Legion (KGL) Dragoons. Farther back in the column, Colonel Colin Halkett led the 1st and 2nd KGL Light Infantry battalions, plus 7 companies of the Brunswick Oels battalion.
During the battle, the KGL were supported by the 1/2 Nassau Regiment and the light company of the 5th Line Battalion KGL. At 17:30, Napoleon re-issued orders for Ney to take La Haye Sainte. [11] The French had worked up close to the buildings by this time.
Leichten Bataillons der Kgl. Deutschen Legion an der Schlacht von Waterloo ( History of the Participation of the 2nd Light Infantry Battalion of the King's German Legion at the Battle of Waterloo ) was published in a Hanoverian military journal, he held the rank of Brigade-Kommandeur .
1st Line Battalion, KGL: 604: 9: 291 2nd Line Battalion, KGL: 678: 3: 387 1st Light Battalion, KGL, two companies: 106: 36: 43 4th Brigade Brigadier General Sigismund, Baron Löw (1,167) 5th Line Battalion, KGL: 610: 41: 255 7th Line Battalion, KGL: 557: 146: 110 Artillery: Sillery's Company, RA (six light 6-pounders) RA: RA: RA 2nd Division ...
The Imperial Russian Army substituted a spiked helmet for the shako in 1844–45 but returned to the latter headdress in 1855, before adopting a form of kepi in 1864. [3] Following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military fashions changed and cloth or leather helmets based on the German headdress began to supersede the shako in many armies.
1st KGL Line; 2nd KGL Line; 5th KGL Line; 7th KGL Line; detachments, 1st & 2nd KGL Light Bns; 4th Brigade Col the Hon Edward Pakenham (1,792 total) 1/7th Foot; 1/79th Foot; Artillery von Rettberg's Battery, KGA; 2nd Division Maj Gen Rowland Hill (5,737 total) 1st Brigade Maj Gen the Hon William Stewart (2,247 total)