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2nd Light Infantry Battalion, |
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| 1803.08 | 2nd Battalion,
The King's German Regiment raised at Lymington, Hants., as light infantry from veterans of the Hanoverian Army |
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| 1803.12.19 | 2nd Light Infantry Battalion, The King's German Legion | |
| 1816.02 | disbanded at Osnabrück | |
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| 1816? | reconstituted in Hanoverian Army, and concurrently amalgamated with 1st Light Battalion, to form Garde Jäger Bataillon | |
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1803.08 | raised at Lymington | |||||
| 1803 | England | ||||||
| 1806 | Ireland | ||||||
| 1807.06.19 | at sea | ||||||
| 1807.07.08 | Swedish Pomerania: Rügen | ||||||
| 1807.07.16 | Stralsund | ||||||
| 1807.08.19 | at sea | ||||||
| 1807.08. | Denmark | ||||||
| 1807.10 | at sea | ||||||
| 1807.11? | England | ||||||
| 1808.05.10 | at sea | ||||||
| 1808.05.17 | Sweden: Göteborg | ||||||
| 1808.07.03 | at sea | ||||||
| 1808.07.15 | England | ||||||
| 1808.08 | Portugal: Maceira Bay | ||||||
| 1808.10 | Peninsular war | ||||||
| 1809.01.12 | at sea (embarked at Vigo) | ||||||
| 1809.01 | England | ||||||
| 1809.07 | at sea | ||||||
| 1809.08 | Walcheren | KGL Lt Bde | |||||
| 1809 | England | ||||||
| 1811? | at sea | ||||||
| 1811? | Portugal | ||||||
| 1811? | Peninsular war | KGL Lt Bde | |||||
| 1814.04 | France | ||||||
| 1814 | at sea | ||||||
| 1814 | Flanders | reduced to six coys | |||||
| 1815.06 | Waterloo campaign | ||||||
| 1815.06 | France: Paris | ||||||
| 1816.01? | Hanover | ||||||
| 1816.02 | disbanded at Osnabrück | ||||||
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Venta del Pozo1, Peninsula, Waterloo 1. awarded by Hanoverian Army after 1816? |
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| 1805.02.09 | Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, GCB, GCH [to 1812; also 31st Foot, 45th Foot, 71st Hldrs, 95th Foot; Cin-C Bombay 1831-32, Gov. R Hospital 1849-56] | |
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| 1812.01.01 | Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, GCB, GCH | |
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