History of the King's German Legion
Author | : North Ludlow Beamish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Military uniforms |
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Author | : North Ludlow Beamish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Military uniforms |
ISBN | : |
Author | : North Ludlow Beamish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : North Ludlow Beamish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 2012 |
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ISBN | : 9781139410762 |
Author | : Brendan Simms |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465039944 |
From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.
Author | : John Frederick Hering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846776403 |
A view of the campaigns of Wellington's famous German troops In the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the King's German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleon's French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in particular. These were fine troops, well disciplined and highly motivated by their enmity towards the French and their desire to liberate and return to their homes. This book, originally published anonymously, but now known to have been written by John Hering, reveals the King's German Legion through his eyewitness experiences on campaign in Denmark, in Portugal and Spain and on the battlefield including the decisive conflict at Talavera
Author | : Otto von Pivka |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2013-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472801695 |
The King's German Legion was the largest and most respected of the foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. The light and heavy cavalry, light and line infantry, and horse and foot artillery of the KGL made major contributions to Wellington's victories during the Peninsular War, and several units covered themselves with glory at Waterloo. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the KGL from its origins to its disbandment, including its uniforms, weapons, flags and standards. Meticulous illustrations offer unprecedented details of this impressive fighting force.
Author | : Janet Bromley |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 2015-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848847505 |
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?
Author | : Cte Castell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Charles Dalton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 |
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Author | : Earl Ziemke |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782899774 |
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.