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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List of military units named after people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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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Sri Lanka Army (section Regiments and corps)
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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Fort William, Ontario (redirect from Pointe de Meuron)
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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Charles La Trobe (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
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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