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The Grenadiers of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment on parade at the Lustgarten in Potsdam in 1894. The 1st Foot Guard Regiment (German: 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) was an infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army formed in 1806 after Napoleon defeated Prussia in the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
On 18 June, the day of Waterloo, he commanded two battalions of the 1st Foot Guards, each 1000-men strong and led the Guards in repelling the final assault of the French Imperial Guard. [4] For his service at Waterloo, Maitland was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath , (KCB) on 22 June 1815, the Dutch Order of William and the ...
General William Hervey (1732–1815), attributed to Johann Zoffany in 1766 General William Hervey (13 May 1732 – 15 January 1815) [ 1 ] was a British Army officer and, briefly, a politician. Life
Lord Hay was the eldest son and heir of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll and his second wife, Alicia Eliot (d. 1812).. Hay, an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards, was killed at the Battle of Quatre Bras while serving as aide-de-camp to General Maitland.
3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards Lieutenant Colonel William Stuart: 40 off 982 men 2 off 20 men 5 off 235 men 0 off 0 men 2nd Brigade: Major-General Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford: 79 off 1,939 men 0 off 0 men 0 off 7 men 0 off 0 men 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards: Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell: 36 off ...
Cap badge of the regiment [3]. The Grenadier Guards trace their lineage back to 1656, [4] when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised from gentlemen of the Honourable Artillery Company by the then heir to the throne, Prince Charles (later King Charles II), in Bruges, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), where it formed a part of the exiled King's bodyguard. [5]
He was awarded the Army Gold Cross and was made KCB on 2 January 1815. [1] Having been sent to America, he joined the army under Sir Edward Pakenham, at the Battle of New Orleans, on 6 January 1815, with the 7th and 43rd regiments. In the unsuccessful attack on the American entrenchments, made two days afterwards, he commanded the reserve.
The Coldstream Guards immediately deployed into position to support the 1st Foot Guards, who were engaged with the enemy at Bossu Wood. Once the wood was cleared of French, Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell led the 2nd Brigade's light companies (including Graham's) in a counter-attack against Jérôme Bonaparte 's Frenchmen, with other Guards ...