Indies Brigade
The Indies Brigade or Indian Brigade ( Dutch: ''Indische Brigade'' or ''Indiaansche Brigade''), also referred to as the Dutch Indies Brigade or Netherlands Indies Brigade, was a Dutch-Belgian military unit which took part in the Waterloo Campaign and subsequent invasion of France in 1815. It was sent to the Dutch East Indies together with the Commissioners-General of the Dutch East Indies after the Hundred Days to fulfill its mission as the core of the future Royal Netherlands Indies Army in October 1815. The brigade was composed of some 3,500 men recruited to garrison the Dutch colonies in the West Indies (Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles) and in the Dutch East Indies. In the Waterloo Campaign, the Brigade was part of the 1st Dutch-Belgian division (lt.-general Stedman and (nominally) Prince Frederick of the Netherlands). The unit was under the command of Lieutenant-General Baron Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing, a German officer in Dutch service, and consisted of: * the 5 ...
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