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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.
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 ...
2nd Battalion, 39th Regiment of Foot (482) Divisional light troops 3 companies, 5th Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot (146) 4th Division Maj-Gen Lowry Cole (5,107 total) 1st Brigade Lt-Col Sir William Myers (2,015 total) 1st Battalion, 7th Fusiliers (714) 2nd Battalion, 7th Fusiliers (568) 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers (733) 2nd Brigade
This 2,900-strong unit included the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 7th King's German Legion (KGL) Infantry battalions, plus elements of the 1st and 2nd KGL Light Infantry. After giving Murray two additional cavalry squadrons, Wellington entrusted him with the task of crossing the Douro River and cutting off the escape route of Marshal Nicolas Soult 's ...
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 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.
3 January 1838: Hildesheim: X Army Corps: 80th (Kurhessian) Fusiliers "von Gersdorff" 22 November 1813: Wiesbaden, Homburg: XVIII Army Corps: 81st (1st Kurhessian) Infantry "Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Cassel" 5 December 1813: Frankfurt am Main: XVIII Army Corps: 82nd (2nd Kurhessian) Infantry: 30 November 1813: Göttingen: XI Army Corps