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    The Regiment de Meuron was a regiment of infantry originally raised in Switzerland in 1781 for service with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). At the...
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    plague. Many officers of the Swiss mercenary de Meuron Regiment are buried here. The Regiment de Meuron, was a Swiss mercenary unit, in the services of...
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    Count Charles-Daniel de Meuron (6 May 1738 - 4 April 1806) was the founder of a Swiss mercenary regiment, Regiment de Meuron, which was employed in the...
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    Officer Commanding, Ceylon. He was also the commanding officer of the Regiment de Meuron, a unit of Swiss mercenaries that had served in Ceylon under the Dutch...
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    of Foot 77th Regiment of Foot Scotch Brigade [later 94th Regiment] Regiment de Meuron (Swiss mercenaries in British pay) The Indian (sepoy) forces consisted...
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    Napoleonic Wars. Mysorean invasion of Malabar Battle of Nedumkotta Regiment de Meuron Garrison Cemetery, Seringapatam Naravane, M. S. (2014). Battles of...
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    Infantry - 2 Companies, later increased to 12 [Formed in West Africa] Regiment de Meuron (First raised in Switzerland in 1781 in the service of the Dutch East...
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  • discharged soldiers from both the recently disbanded De Watteville Regiment and Regiment de Meuron, still retaining their uniforms would participate in...
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    Thomas Brisbane (the 2/8th, 13th, and 49th Regiments of Foot, the Regiment de Meuron, the Canadian Voltigeurs, and the Canadian Chasseurs); and the 3rd...
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    Among the graves, there are 80 graves of the officers of the Swiss Regiment de Meuron, and the rest of the graves are their family members. The Scott’s...
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    Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the operations of 1783-84 in the East Indies as a captain of the Regiment de Meuron. He also participated with the French army in a battle against the...
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  • American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976. Armitage, David. Every Great...
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    soldiers from the recently disbanded Swiss and German Regiment de Meuron and De Watteville's Regiment, Selkirk captured Fort William, the North West Company...
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    Swiss mercenaries (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    of the French Swiss Guards, founded his own mercenary regiment under the name Regiment de Meuron, first serving the Dutch East India Company, and from...
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    atrocities in Chesapeake Bay, and were disbanded. The nominally Swiss Regiment de Meuron was transferred from the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon in 1798...
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  • friendship with Comte Charles-Daniel de Meuron, who owned a regiment of Swiss mercenaries, the Regiment de Meuron, that controlled Ceylon for the Dutch...
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    Belgium (Dutch: Prins Boudewijn van België). Regiment de Meuron – named after Charles-Daniel de Meuron. Régiment Royal-Louis – named after Louis XVI. Rodrigo...
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    were transferred to the British East India Company. While the Swiss Regiment de Meuron left in 1806 and was eventually disbanded in Canada in 1822, the Malays...
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    same basis. Those eligible included the Swiss mercenary unit, the Regiment de Meuron. The original medal was minted in England in 1801–2, but only sent...
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    Kaministiquia River at Pointe de Meuron, a former military staging location named after Lord Selkirk's Swiss de Meuron Regiment. It is now known as the Fort...
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  • members of the Swiss de Meuron Regiment, a Swiss mercenary unit employed by the VOC. In diplomatic negotiations in Europe, Count de Meuron pledged allegiance...
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    recently discharged from the De Meuron and De Watteville regiments. De Meuron's and De Watteville's were two Swiss regiments on the English establishment...
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    the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa through Colonel Charles-Daniel de Meuron from Neuchâtel. Last but not least, the baron also managed to inspire...
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    Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet (category 52nd Regiment of Foot officers)
    recuperating from his wounds in August, Walker was made colonel of the Regiment de Meuron, a Swiss mercenary unit, on 24 October. He had recovered sufficiently...
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    (1852). Histoire du Bailli de Suffren. Rennes: A. Marteville et Lefas. p. 447. de Meuron, Guy (1982). Le Régiment Meuron, 1781–1816. Editions d'En bas...
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  • 14th Regiment of Foot Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Bonnevaux 2 July 1797 12 July 1797 10th Madras Native Infantry Major-General Pierre Frédéric de Meuron 12...
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    Europe after his term, La Trobe married Sophie's sister, Rose Isabelle de Meuron (1821–1883) in 1855, a marriage which was illegal in English law, being...
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    Biografie : Erweiterte Suche : LAGIS Hessen". See Charles-Daniel de Meuron, Regiment de Meuron and Guards Rifles Battalion Memoir of the Illustrious and Sovereign...
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    Sultan, were 30,000. It is also said that about 80 men of the Swiss ‘de Meuron Regiment’, who fell during the siege, and their family members are buried in...
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    sponsorship of Colonel Charles Daniel de Meuron. Cape under Dutch occupation to 1795 The Swiss mercenary DeMeuron Regiment in the service of the Dutch East...
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