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A British cartoon suggesting that John Bull has been relieved of the weight of the millstone of Hanover by Napoleon. Nonetheless, British troops fought to recover Hanover from the French. Many members of the Hanoverian Army fled abroad, and in December 1803 the King's German Legion was raised to enlist them in the Allied cause against Napoleon. [7]
In 1803, Hanover was conquered by the French and Prussian armies in the Napoleonic Wars. The Treaties of Tilsit in 1807 joined it to territories from Prussia and created the Kingdom of Westphalia, ruled by Napoleon's youngest brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. French control lasted until October 1813, when the territory was overrun by Russian Cossacks.
The Liberation of Hanover took place in November 1813 as part of the War of the Sixth Coalition during the larger Napoleonic Wars. The Electorate of Hanover had been invaded and occupied in 1803 and since then had been divided between the First French Empire and the Kingdom of Westphalia ruled by Napoleon's younger brother Jerome .
The Flag of Hanover. The Hanoverian Army (German: Hannoversche Armee) was the standing army of the Electorate of Hanover from the seventeenth century onwards. From 1692 to 1803 it acted in defence of the electorate. Following the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, this was in conjunction with the British Army with which it shared a monarch.
The Legion had been formed following the French Invasion of Hanover in 1803. [3] The KGL participated in numerous British military campaigns, notably during the Peninsular War . At Waterloo men from the KGL notably defended the strategic farmhouse at La Haye Sainte .
The list of fallen soldiers includes members of the King's German Legion. Many men from Hanover had joined up with the King's German Legion. [a] King George III, who was also the Elector of Hanover, created this legion due to Napoleon's invasion and occupation of Hanover in 1803. New recruits continued to arrive in Britain in order to reject ...
Many former Hanoverian officers and soldiers fled the French occupation of Hanover to Britain; George III, the deposed Elector of Hanover, was also King of the United Kingdom. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The same year, Major Colin Halkett and Colonel Johann Friedrich von der Decken were issued warrants to raise a corps of light infantry , to be named The ...
In 1803, the Electorate of Hanover was occupied by France after the Convention of Artlenburg. From 1807 to 1813, the Hanoverian territory was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . However, the government of George III did not recognize the French annexation (being at war continuously with France through the entire period) and Hanoverian ministers ...