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Memorial for members of the British German Legion in the British cemetery at Haydarpaşa, Istanbul. The British German Legion (or Anglo-German Legion) was a group of German soldiers recruited to fight for Britain in the Crimean War. It is not to be confused with the King's German Legion, which was active during the Napoleonic Wars. Great ...
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 ...
The Battle of Germantown was a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War.It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army led by Sir William Howe, and the American Continental Army under George Washington.
America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army (1995) complete text online; Nolt, Steven, Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early American Republic, Penn State U. Press, 2002 ISBN 0-271-02199-3; Percy, Sarah. Mercenaries: The history of a norm in international relations (Oxford University Press, 2007).
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
The "German Battalion" (also known as the "German Regiment" or 8th Maryland) was an infantry formation of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized in May 1776 as an extra Continental regiment , the battalion recruited ethnic Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania .
Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0; History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German) List of British Loyalist Regiments - The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies; Regiments.org; Revwar75 - Crown Forces; the King's Own ...
The town was named Germantown by the group's leader Franz Pastorius, a German preacher from Sommerhausen. The town's population remained largely Dutch-speaking until 1709, after which a number of the Dutch families set out west and a series of major German emigrations reached Germantown and Pennsylvania as a whole. Their initial leader ...