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The Hanoverian Army was defeated in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War and Hanover's independence ended. Hanoverian troops were subsequently incorporated into the Imperial German Army. The symbol of the army, incorporated into many of its uniforms and banners, was the White Horse of Hanover.
The Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover (German: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, or simply Landesmuseum Hannover) is the state museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany. Situated adjacent to the New Town Hall , the museum comprises the state gallery ( Landesgalerie ), featuring paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th ...
Hanover Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum Hannover) is an historical museum situated in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany.The museum was founded in 1903 as the Homeland Museum of the City of Hanover (Vaterländisches Museum der Stadt Hannover).
The King's German Legion (KGL; German: Des Königs Deutsche Legion) was a formation of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Consisting primarily of expatriate Germans , it existed from 1803 to 1816 and achieved the distinction of being the only German military force to fight without interruption against the ...
The Province of Hanover (German: Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1946. In 1946, the British military administration made the Province of Hanover the main part of the land of Lower Saxony , along with the states of Oldenburg , Brunswick , and Schaumburg-Lippe , with the city ...
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]
Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany, the 1942 New Hanover High School class ring of graduate Mary Silvia Allen returned to the school. An ...
The Waterloo Column (German: Waterloosäule) is a victory column commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. It is situated in Hanover, the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. Built from 1825 to 1832, it was designed by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves who had been the Hanover court architect since 1814