Lot 44
  • 44

King's German Legion.

Estimate
2,000 - 2,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Description of the Commissioned Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, Trumpeters, and Rank and File for the 9th Troop, 3rd King's German Hussars
  • ink on paper
manuscript list providing the names of all members of the regiment with their date and place of birth, physical description, details of enlistment and former service, and supplementary remarks usually on their departure from the regiment (including deaths in battle at Waterloo and elsewhere), with a list of the troop's horses with physical descriptions and other details written from the reverse, c.64 pages, plus blanks, oblong 8vo, written 1812 with additions to 1815, with two later monthly reports on Hanoverian regiments loosely inserted, contemporary calf with paper labels on both covers, remains of clasp, wear at joints

Provenance

Captain William de Schnehen, gift from the estate of his son

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

The troop fought at the Battle of Göhrde and at Waterloo, among other actions.