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    (later King George IV) and the Black Brunswickers entered British service. During the next few years, the Brunswickers earned themselves a sound reputation...
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    The Black Brunswicker (1860) is a painting by John Everett Millais. It was inspired in part by the exploits of the Black Brunswickers, a German volunteer...
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    in his painting The Black Brunswicker, in which a print of the painting hangs on the wall of a room in which one of the Brunswickers who fought at the Battle...
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    The Brunswick corps was provided with black uniforms, giving rise to their nickname, the Black Brunswickers. Both hussar cavalry and infantry in the...
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    of the Duchy of Warsaw and Saxony (where they fought alongside the Black Brunswickers) were repulsed and they were driven out of their territories in Italy...
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    halt the Black Brunswickers under Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel who were heading for North Sea coast. However, the Brunswickers surprised...
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    armies. The silver-on-black skull and crossbones symbol or Totenkopf and a black uniform were used by Hussars and Black Brunswickers, the German Panzerwaffe...
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    Brunswick-Lüneburg and Oels. Nicknamed "The Black Duke", he was a military officer who led the Black Brunswickers against French domination in Germany. He...
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  • of Hungary, an army of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century Black Brunswickers, an army raised in 1809 by Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and...
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    Wars Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, US Brunswick stew Black Brunswickers, German volunteer corps in the Napoleonic Wars All pages with titles...
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    of Vienna on 25 February 1809. Due to their black uniform these troops were called the Black Brunswickers. After the Battle of Wagram, Austria had made...
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    An incident is recorded in contemporary accounts as indicative of the Brunswickers' attitude while heading the pursuit. General Duhesme (commander of the...
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  • Guerilla to Germany". Other famous Streifkorps were the Duke of Brunswick's "Black Horde" and the "Lützow Free Corps", which comprised infantry, cavalry and...
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    The exiled Duke Frederick William raised a volunteer corps, the Black Brunswickers, who fought the French in several battles. After the Congress of Vienna...
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    (from Oct 1813)    Württemberg (from 1806)   Yes (from Oct 1813)    Black Brunswickers (from 1809) Yes Yes Yes  Hanover (from 1814) Yes  Austrian Empire (from...
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    was the dished or concave top. This style of shako was worn by the Black Brunswickers alongside shakos of the Austrian pattern. In 1815 the Russian style...
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  • force of Austrians together with a force of Brunswickers under the command of Frederick William, The Black Duke was based in Theresienstadt, Bohemia (now...
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  • Empire Kingdom of Westphalia  Kingdom of Saxony  Austrian Empire Black Brunswickers Coalition victory 9 July 1809 Battle of Hollabrunn (1809) Austria...
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  • Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)  United Kingdom Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers French victory 1813 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition First French Empire...
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    Black Canadians in New Brunswick (known as Black New Brunswickers) refers to Black Canadians from the province of New Brunswick, notably of those whose...
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    mainly were recruited from Hanoverians, the Lützow Free Corps and the Black Brunswickers. The Freikorps attracted many nationally disposed citizens and students...
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    Hesse-Darmstadt, in Glückstadt, while his father raised a volunteer corps, the Black Brunswickers, to fight with the Austrians against Napoleon. In the Autumn of 1809...
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  • and her army, 1509–1970: a military, political and social survey (1970). Black, Jeremy. A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present (2008)...
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    19 August 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020. von Pikva, Otto (1973). The Black Brunswickers (Men at Arms - #7). Osprey Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0850451467...
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  • Stralsund 1932 Weimar Republic The Black Hussar Der schwarze Husar Gerhard Lamprecht Comedy, Drama. Freikorps, Black Brunswickers, Frederick William 1933 Nazi...
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    Saale. On 29 July 1809 a Westphalian regiment was defeated by the Black Brunswickers under Prince Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in the Battle...
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    rebellion against Bavaria)  United Kingdom  Spain Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers Victory Treaty of Schönbrunn Franco-Austrian Alliance Napoléon marries...
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    Eyes (1877), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums Collection The Black Brunswicker (1860) Parable - The Leaven (c.1860), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery &...
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    nephew Emperor Frederick I, and thus to the House of Hohenstaufen. Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria (1075–1126) and his wife Wulfhild of Billung Henry the...
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  • Swiss Confederation Holland  Austria Tyrol Hungary  United Kingdom Black Brunswickers Sardinia Sicily 1809 1809 1809 Gottscheer Rebellion  France Gottschee...
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