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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 ...
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The 8th Line Battalion of the King's German Legion was a Hanoverian unit in British service during the Napoleonic ...
Baring's military career began with his joining the Hanoverian Army in 1787. In November 1803 (dating the commission to 17 November) he became a brevet major in the King's Germans (renamed the King's German Legion on 19 December 1803), a force of which he had been one of the first members.
The 5th Line Battalion of the King's German Legion (abbreviated: KGL) was raised in late 1805 as the fifth out of eight line battalions that the Legion levied in total. The British Hanover Expedition at the end of 1805, which had been vacated by French troops on their way to the Battle of Austerlitz, resulted in a massive recruitment success for the KGL.
King's German Legion (1803-1816), a unit of the British Army Russian–German Legion (1812-1815), a unit of the Imperial Russian Army and, later, the Prussian Army German Legion (Philhellenes) [ el ] (c. 1823), a unit of volunteers from Germany in the Greek War of Independence , at the call of Friedrich Thiersch
On the dissolution of the Hanoverian Army after the convention of Artlenburg, Bock was one of the officers who travelled to England, where he raised four troops of heavy cavalry, designated as the 1st dragoons, King's German Legion, and was gazetted colonel 21 April 1804. The regiment was formed at Weymouth, and was a particular favourite of ...
Georg Hartog Gerson (25 August 1788 – 3 December 1844) was a medical doctor and surgeon in the King's German Legion during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerson was born in Hamburg. He came from a family of doctors who had been living and working in Hamburg and Altona (which was then part of the Duchy of Holstein) since the 17th century. His ...