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King’s German Legion

King’s German Legion



Headquarters:
Infantry at Bexhill-on-Sea
Cavalry at Weymouth, Dorset


Leadership

Field Marshal
Charles, Count Alten

Major General:

Eberhardt Otto George von Bock


Manpower
Active Personnel:
14,000


Engagements
Peninsular War
Waterloo
Battle of Venta del Pozo (1st and 2nd Light Infantry Battalion)
Garcia Hernandez (1st Regiment of Dragoons )
Bodon (1st Regiment of Hussars)
Barrosa (2nd Regiment of Hussars)
Göhrde (3rd Regiment of Hussars)

Brief Structure Overview:

Cavalry

1st Regiment of Dragoons (1804–1812, red jacket)
changed into: 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons (1812–1816, blue jacket)
2nd Regiment of Dragoons (1805–1812, red jacket)
changed into: 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons (1812–1816, blue jacket)
1st Regiment of Hussars
2nd Regiment of Hussars
3rd Regiment of Hussars

Infantry

1st Light Infantry Battalion
2nd Light Infantry Battalion
1st Line Battalion
2nd Line Battalion
3rd Line Battalion
4th Line Battalion
5th Line Battalion
6th Line Battalion
7th Line Battalion
8th Line Battalion

Artillery and engineers

King's German Artillery
2 horse batteries
4 foot batteries
King's German Engineers

Brief History:

The King's German Legion (KGL) was a British Army unit of mostly expatriate German personnel during the period 1803–16. The Legion achieved the distinction of being the only German force to fight without interruption against the French during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Legion was formed within months of the dissolution of the Electorate of Hanover in 1803 and constituted as a mixed corps by the end of 1803. Although The Legion never fought autonomously and remained a part of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars (1804–15), it played a vital role in several campaigns, most notably the Walcheren Campaign, the Peninsular War, and the Hundred Days (1815).

The Legion was disbanded in 1816. Several of the units were incorporated into the army of the Kingdom of Hanover, and became later a part of the Imperial German Army after unification in 1871.

The British German Legion, recruited for the Crimean War, is sometimes erroneously referred to as the "King's German Legion".

Vlandia1

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