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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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
Waterloo town, South Carolina – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [9] Pop 2010 [10] Pop 2020 [11 ...
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
A 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Marine and LAV-25 in Iraq during June 2008. The United States Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, or LAR Battalions, are fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance units that conduct reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) ahead of the battalion landing teams or division infantry forces.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in South Carolina for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Third Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC).