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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.
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.
In 1812 he was made lieutenant colonel and in 1813 he was put in command of the Legion's 1st Light Battalion. In 1815 he was an oberst and a brigade commander in general Charles Alten 's division within Wellington 's army.
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 ...
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 1st Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army that served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. [1] The division was formed on November 27, 1815, as the Infantry Division of the Munich General Command ( Infanterie-Division des Generalkommandos München.
The Imperial French cavalry was unable to cope with a KGL infantry battalion defending a village and they withdrew at the approach of additional British cavalry and infantry. This Peninsular War action was fought near Majadahonda , which is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of Madrid.