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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
1st (Rifles) Light Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Louis von dem Bussche: 44 officers, 410 men 3 officers, 37 men 9 officers, 84 men 0 officers, 13 men 2nd (Rifles) Light Battalion Major Georg Freiherr von Baring: 38 officers, 352 men 5 officers, 40 men 9 officers, 120 men 0 officers, 29 men 5th Line Battalion: Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Wilhelm von ...
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 ).
It contained the 1st and 2nd Light Battalions and the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Line Battalions. [52] He subsequently led his brigade at the Battle of Nivelle on 10 November. [ 9 ] The brigade had twenty-nine men killed at Nivelle, the only such losses in the 1st Division on the day, with 183 total casualties.