Hi all.
How many companies did a Hanoverian Landwehr infantry battalion have at Waterloo?
Also, did it have a Grenadier company and a Light company, if so were the uniform distinctions as per British battalions.
Thank you in advance.
Paul.
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Last bit of information. Of the four Hanoverian Landwehr Brigades, one (detached at Hal) was commanded by a British Officer (Maj Gen Lyons, former Commanding Officer of the 97th Queen’s German Regiment, who had commanded a mixed KGL/ Hanoverian “Division” in North Germany in 1813, as part of the campaign leading to the Battle of the Goedrhe). Two Hanoverian brigades were commanded by KGL Officers (Col Halkett and Col Best) and one by a Hanoverian Officer (Col Von Vincke). The KGL thus had a big influence on the Hanoverian Brigades.
Rod