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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Bock's 770-strong heavy cavalry brigade, consisting of the 1st and 2nd King's German Legion (KGL) Dragoons, led the pursuit of the French. Supporting Bock were the 1,000 troopers of George Anson's British light cavalry brigade (11th and 16th Light Dragoons). [2] As the KGL troops approached, Maj-Gen Curto's French cavalry fled.
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.
The King's German Legion was dissolved after Waterloo and Baring joined the newly formed army of the Kingdom of Hanover, in which he became oberst in the Garde-Grenadier-Regiment (26 December 1828) and from 1830 as Flügel-Adjutant in the general staff. In 1831, the year in which his Erzählung der Teilnahme des 2. Leichten Bataillons der Kgl.