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Memorial for members of the British German Legion in the British cemetery at Haydarpaşa, Istanbul. The British German Legion (or Anglo-German Legion) was a group of German soldiers recruited to fight for Britain in the Crimean War. It is not to be confused with the King's German Legion, which was active during the Napoleonic Wars. Great ...
British Legions, foreign volunteer units, established in 1819, who fought against Spain in South America's independence wars; British German Legion, a group of German soldiers recruited to fight for Britain in the Crimean War, 1855–1856
People of German ancestry fought on both sides in the American Revolution. Many of the small German states in Europe supported the British. King George III of Britain was simultaneously the ruler of the German state of Hanover. Around 30,000 Germans fought for the British during the war, around 25% of British land forces. [1]
Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0; History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German) List of British Loyalist Regiments - The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies; Regiments.org; Revwar75 - Crown Forces; the King's Own ...
The BFC did not have a "commander" per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier ("liaison officer") between the SS-Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D/3, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers, and in practice they acted as the unit ...
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 ...
The British Legions in the South American Wars of Independence during the 19th century. The British Free Corps of the Waffen SS in World War II. 2,500 British fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the republicans. [8] In the Paraguay Revolution of 1922, British pilots fought in the Escuela de Aviación Militar.
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.