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Order Of Battle Of The Battle Of Quatre Bras
The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16June 1815 at Quatre Bras in the Belgian province of Wallonia. The numbers following each unit are the approximate strengths of that unit. Anglo-allied Army Headquarters and support regiments Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Major General Prince Willem of Orange G.C.B. I Corps II Corps Reserve Under the command of Wellington. Brunswick Corps Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( KIA) Cavalry Corps French Army Left Wing, '' Armee du Nord'' Marshal of the Empire Michel Ney II Corps Gen de Division Honoré Charles Reille III Cavalry Corps Gen de Corps d'Armee François Étienne de Kellermann, Comte de Valmy See also * Order of Battle of the Waterloo Campaign This is the complete order of battle for the four major battles of the Waterloo campaign. French Army order of battle Headquarters L'Armée du Nord under the command of Emperor Napol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Quatre Bras
The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras and was contested between elements of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of Napoleon Bonaparte's French '' Armée du Nord'' under Marshal Michel Ney. The battle was a tactical victory for Wellington (as he possessed the field at dusk), but because Ney prevented him going to the aid of Blucher's Prussians who were fighting a larger French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte at Ligny it was a strategic victory for the French. Prelude Facing two armies (Wellington's arriving from the west and the Prussians under Field Marshall von Blücher from the east), Napoleon's overall strategy was to defeat each in turn, before these forces could join. Napoleon intended to cross the border into what is now Belgium (but was then part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Byng, 1st Earl Of Strafford
Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkha ... officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Battalion of the Scots Guards, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign. He served as a brigade commander at the Battle of Vitoria and then at the Battle of Roncesvalles (1813), Battle of Roncesvalles on 25 July 1813 when his brigade took the brunt of the French assault and held its position for three hours in the early morning before finally being forced back. During the Hundred Days, he commanded the 2nd Guards Brigade at the Battle of Quatre Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hamilton (British Army Officer)
Alexander Hamilton CB (17654 June 1838) was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic Wars who was injured at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16June 1815 but recovered sufficiently to command a battalion at the Battle of Waterloo two days later. Career He was appointed an ensign in the 84th Regiment of Foot on 1April 1794 then removed to the 30th Regiment of Foot on the 2April 1797. Promotions followed to lieutenant on 22March 1791; to captain on 2September 1795; to major on 1April 1804; to lieutenant-colonel in the army on 4June 1811 and lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Battalion, 30th Foot on 25July 1811. Hamilton was present at the landing of the British troops at Toulon in August 1793 and was severely wounded at Cape Brune on the 14October the same year. In January 1794 he was part of the expedition to Corsica where he led the attack on the Martello tower on the first landing and was present at the taking of St. Fiorenza and the Siege of Bastia. Hamilton next saw action on 14Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30th Regiment Of Foot
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Halkett
General Sir Colin Halkett (7 September 1774 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Family Halkett came from a military family. His father was Major General Frederick Godar Halkett and his younger brother was General Hugh Halkett. Military career Halkett began his military career in the Dutch Guards and served in various companies for three years, leaving as a captain in 1795. From 1800 to 1801 he commanded Dutch troops on the Island of Guernsey. On 28 July 1803, a letter of service was issued to Major Halkett (and to Lieutenant Colonel von der Decken) empowering him "to raise a battalion of infantry with an establishment of four hundred and fifty-nine men" and offering him the rank of lieutenant colonel should he increase the number to eight hundred men. These men formed the nucleus of what was to become the King's German Legion in December 1803. On 17 November 1803, Halkett was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and given com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles, Count Alten
Field Marshal Sir Charles (Carl) August von Alten (21 October 1764 – 20 April 1840) was a Hanoverian and British soldier who led the famous Light Division during the last two years of the Peninsular War. At the Battle of Waterloo, he commanded a division in the front line, where he was wounded. He later rose to the rank of Field Marshal in the Hanoverian army. Alten was the son of August Eberhard von Alten (1722–1789), a member of an old Hanoverian family, and Baroness Henriette Philippine Marie Hedwig Vincke family, von Vincke-Ostenwalde. Alten's older brother, Victor Alten (1755–1820) commanded a cavalry brigade in Wellington's army. Unlike his brother Charles, Victor is described as "unsatisfactory". Early career Alten entered the service of the elector as a page at the age of twelve. In 1781 he received a commission in the Hanoverian guards, and as a captain took part in the campaigns of 1793–1795 in the Low Countries, distinguishing himself particularly on the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Division (United Kingdom)
The 3rd (United Kingdom) Division is a regular army division of the British Army. It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars. The division fought at the Battle of Waterloo, as well as during the Crimean War and the Second Boer War. As a result of bitter fighting in 1916, during the First World War, the division became referred to as the 3rd (Iron) Division, or the Iron Division or Ironsides. During the Second World War, the division (now known as the 3rd Infantry Division) fought in the Battle of France including a rearguard action during the Dunkirk Evacuation, and played a prominent role in the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944. The division was to have been part of a proposed Commonwealth Corps, formed for a planned invasion of Japan in 1945–46, and later served in the British Mandate of Pales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's German Legion
The King's German Legion (KGL; german: Des Königs Deutsche Legion, semantically erroneous obsolete German variations are , , ) was a British Army unit of mostly expatriated 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sandham
Charles Freeman Sandham (12 October 1781 – 14 February 1869) was a British Army officer who fought during the Napoleonic Wars and commanded a Brigade of Artillery at the Battle of Waterloo on 18June 1815. Biography After service in Holland in 1799 he was part of the 1807 Copenhagen Expedition. Present at four engagements during the Walcheren Campaign, he subsequently served under Sir John Moore during the 1809 retreat from Corunna. Sandham campaigned in Holland, Flanders and France during 1814 before commanding a Brigade of the Royal Artillery at the Battle of Waterloo on 18June 1815. During the battle, his Brigade were armed with five 9-pounder cannons and one 5 1/2" howitzer. Sources claim that "the first shot fired by the allied artillery at Waterloo was fired by Sandham's brigade." In 1833 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex. After his death he was buried in the churchyard of St. Marys in Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments. History Formation to 1799 Artillery was used by the English army as early as the Battle of Crécy in 1346, while Henry VIII established it as a semi-permanent function in the 16th century. Until the early 18th century, the majority of British regiments were raised for specific campaigns and disbanded on completion. An exception were gunners based at the Tower of London, Portsmouth and other forts around Britain, who were controlled by the Ordnance Office and stored and maintained equipment and provided personnel for field artillery 'traynes' that were organised as needed. These personnel, responsible in peacetime for maintaining the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Galway Adye
Stephen Galway Adye CB (1772 – 13 September 1838) was a British Army officer who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Career The second son of Stephen Payne Adye, he was appointed first lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 1January 1794. Promotion to captain lieutenant followed in 1798 and to captain in 1803. He served under General Abercromby in the 1801 Egyptian Campaign against the French, and was part of the 1809 expedition to Walcheren, during which he was seriously wounded. At Waterloo he was a field officer in command of two batteries of foot artillery attached to an army division, and was subsequently made a Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB). Adye later became Chief Firemaster at the Royal Laboratory The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hepburn
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hepburn (19August 17797June 1835) was a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and commanded the 3rd Foot Guards at the Battle of Waterloo on 18June 1815. Family background His grandfather, James Hepburn, of Brecarton and Keith Marshall, spent his fortune on the Stuart cause and had two sons. The eldest, Robert became a lieutenant-colonel in the Enniskillen Dragoons while the younger, David was Francis' father from his marriage to Bertha Graham of the Inchbrakie family. David was a Colonel of Infantry who saw action at the siege Belleisle in 1761 before he was forced to retire from the service due to health problems. Francis' elder brother James became a civil servant with the East India Company. Military career Hepburn joined the 3rd Foot Guards of the British Army as an ensign on 17December 1794 and was promoted to lieutenant and captain on 28May 1798. He saw service in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the following year accompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
