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4. ‘Proposals for enlisting recruits from amongst prisoners of war in England for the King’s German Legion’, Horse Guards, 17.10.1811, in Bexhill Hanoverian Study Group, Newsletter 44 (November 2005).
5. As extrapolated from Otto Puffahrt (ed.), In der Schlacht von Waterloo gefallene, verwundete und vermisste Soldaten aus der Hannoverschen Armee (Lüneburg, 2004), pp. 70–77. 有关第2轻步兵营的补充力，我们了解得不多，因为HMS“诺森伯兰”号于1807年在爱尔兰海域沉没时，所有文件都遗失了 (Bernhard Schwertfeger, Peninsula-Waterloo. Zum Gedächtnis der königlich-deutschen Legion (Hanover, 1914), p. 211。
6. See the figures in Jens Mastnak, ‘Die Königlich Deutsche Legion, 1803–1816. Lebenswirklichkeit in einer militärischen Formation der Koalitionskriege’ (PhD dissertation, University of Vechta, 2012), p. 121.
7. See Terry Cooper, ‘Officers of the King’s German Legion, 1803–1816’, typescript, York, 1999, which updates and consolidates Beamish and Schwertfeger, pp. 18, 24, 25, 30, 36–7(for British paymasters). Typescript in National Army Museun, NAM-1999–03–138–1–1, and Peter B. Boyden, ‘The King’s German Legion and their bankers’, typescript in records of Bexhill Hanoverian Study Group.
8. For an evocative account see Mark Urban, Rifles. Six Years with Wellington’s legendary Sharpshooters (London, 2003).
9. For conditions of service see Beamish, King’s German Legion, vol. 1, p. 350.
10. Bernhard von Poten, ‘Des Königs Deutsche Legion, 1803 bis 1816. Darstelling ihrer inneren Verhältnisse’, Militär-Wochenblatt, supplement, 11 (1905), 397–458 (quotation 421).
11. Thus Emanuel Biedermann, Erinnerungen, Wanderungen, Erfahrungen und Lebensansichten eines froh- und freisinnigen Schweizers (2 vols., Trogen, 1828) vol. 1, p. 141. For a detailed discussion of this see Jens Mastnak, ‘Die Königlich Deutschen Legion, 1803–1816. Lebenswirklichkeit in einer militärischen Formation der Koalitionskriege’ (PhD dissertation, University of Vechta, 2012), pp. 182–205.
12. See Julius Runnebaum, General Karl von Alten: ein Soldat Europas (Hildesheim, 1964).
13. For Wellington and the King’s German Legion in the Peninsula and Southern France see Huw J. Davies, Wellington’s Wars. The Making of a Military Genius (New Haven and London, 2012) pp. 105, 165, 200; Lawrence James, The Iron Duke. A Military Biography of Wellington (London, 1992), pp. 137–9. Michael Glover, Wellington as Military Commander (London, 1968), pp. 132 and 177.
14. Poten, ‘Des Königs Deutsche Legion’, p. 421.
15. Ibid.
16. ‘Journale der Acht Linien und Veteranen Batallione der King’s German Legion, 1803 bis 1816’, HStAH, Hann38D, 236, fol. 225.
17. Jasper Heinzen and Mark Wishon, ‘ “A patriotic mercenary?” Sir Julius von Hartmann as a Hanoverian officer in British service, 1803–1816’, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 23:2 (2013), 13–26. 谢谢Jasper Heinzen让我在正式出版前翻阅了此资料。See also J. von Hartmann (Jnr), Der Königlich-Hannoversche General Sir Julius von Hartmann. Eine Lebensskizze (Hanover, 1858).
18. Bexhill Museum Local History Folder A/HF20 (list of marriages).
19. See Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat. The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 (London, 2007), pp. 417–18 et passim.
20. See Nicholas B. Harding, ‘Hanover and British republicanism’, in Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte (eds.), The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837(Cambridge, 2007), pp. 301–23 (especially 32–22).
21. Bernhard von Poten, ‘Georg Freiherr von Baring, Königlich Hannoverscher Generallieutenant: 1773–1848: Ein Lebensbild auf Grund von Aufzeichnungen des Verstorbenen und von Mittheilungen der Familie, Militär-Wochenblatt, 1 (1898), 1– 78, here 35. See also Janet Harris, ‘The KGL at Bexhill on Sea’, in Gwen Davis (ed.), The King’s German Legion. Records and Research (Anglo-German Family History Society Publications, Maidenhead, 2000), pp. 12–17, especially pp. 13–14.
22. A list has been compiled by Dr Vernon of the Bexhill Hanoverian Study Group: ‘The King’s German Legion, marriages 1804–1814’, St Peter’s Church, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
23. See ‘KGL marriages, 1804–1814, St Peter’s Church, Bexhill’ after Dr Vernon of Bexhill with additional information from Terry Cooper of York, Archives of the Bexhill Hanoverian Study Group, Bexhill Old Town Preservation Society.
24. For a discussion of the complex motivations see Heinzen and Wishon, ‘ “A patriotic mercenary?” ’, quotation p. 18, and Mastnak, ‘Die Königlich Deutsche Legion, 1803–1816’, pp. 141–6, 强调了非金钱和爱国动机，但指出民族感情这种说法已过时了。
25. See Schwertfeger, Peninsula-Waterloo, p. 26.
26. A comparison made by David Howarth, Waterloo: A Near Run Thing (London, 1968), p. 119.