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The Hanover Expedition, also known as the Weser Expedition, [1] was a British invasion of the Electorate of Hanover during the Napoleonic Wars.Coordinated as part of an attack on France by the nations of the Third Coalition against Napoleon by William Pitt the Younger and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, planning began for an invasion of French territories in July 1805.
the Trafalgar campaign (March–November 1805); the Ulm campaign (25 September – 20 October 1805); the Venetian campaign in modern-day Veneto (October–November 1805); the Austerlitz campaign in modern-day Austria and Czechia (30 October – 2 December 1805); the Hanover Expedition or Weser Expedition (19 November 1805 – 15 February 1806);
The 5th Line Battalion of the King's German Legion (abbreviated: KGL) was raised in late 1805 as the fifth out of eight line battalions that the Legion levied in total. The British Hanover Expedition at the end of 1805, which had been vacated by French troops on their way to the Battle of Austerlitz, resulted in a massive recruitment success for the KGL.
Action of 15 July 1805; Allemand's expedition of 1805; ... Hanover Expedition; Battle of Haslach-Jungingen; Archibald Henderson; I. Battle of Ivankovac; K. Karyagin's ...
Hinuber was promoted to colonel on 9 July 1805 and in November led his battalion in the Hanover Expedition, an unsuccessful attempt to liberate the Electorate which ended in February the following year. [7] [22] In August 1807 the 3rd participated in another expedition, this time to Copenhagen.
From 1803 to 1805 Lord Cathcart was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, and in the latter year he was sent by Pitt to supersede Sir George Don in command of the 14,000 strong British Hanover Expedition. [3] He occupied Hanover on 14 December and joined with Werdereffsky's Russian column of Tolstoi's corps.
He subsequently served with the Coldstream Guards on the Hanover Expedition in 1805 and Copenhagen Expedition in 1807. Promoted to colonel in 1808, Peacocke served with his regiment at the beginning of the Peninsular War, fighting at the Second Battle of Porto. In June 1809 he left regimental service to take up post as Commandant of Lisbon ...
It landed at Cuxhaven in Germany in October 1805 as part of the Hanover Expedition, but was withdrawn in February 1806 [67] before taking part in the Battle of Copenhagen in August 1807. [68] The 1st Battalion moved to Canada in 1808 as the Napoleonic Wars extended to the Americas. [68]