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unusual facts about Hanoverian



Agostino Steffani

The accomplished abbate was sent on this delicate mission in 1696, with the title of envoy extraordinary, and he fulfilled his difficult task so well that Pope Innocent XI, in recognition of certain privileges he had secured for the Hanoverian Catholics, consecrated him bishop of Spiga on the Sea of Marmora (modern day Biga in Turkey).

Battle of Grünberg

The Battle of Grünberg (21 March 1761) was fought between French and allied Prussian and Hanoverian troops in the Seven Years' War at village of Grünberg, near Stangerode.

Battle of Hastenbeck

General Chevert was ordered to flank the Hanoverian position with four brigades containing troops from Picardy, la Marine, Navarre and Eu.

Battle of Malpura

His army consisted of De Boigne`s second brigade or the six battalions commanded by Anthony Pohlmann, a Hanoverian soldier.

Battle of Nauen

The operational objective of the Swedes under Field Marshal Wrangel was to set out from Havelberg to cross the Elbe in order to gain the left bank of the river, to join forces with Hanoverian troops and advance on Magdeburg.

Battle of Rathenow

The town of Rathenow was also occupied by Swedish troops, because Wrangel wanted to launch a crossing of the River Elbe at Havelberg from Rathenow and join forces with Hanoverian troops.

Benther Berg

It lies between the following towns and villages: Lenthe (borough of Gehrden) to the north and, somewhater further away in each case, Velber (borough of Seelze) to the north-northeast and the Hanoverian villages of Badenstedt and Davenstedt to the northeast.

Brandenburger

Following reunification with the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), stallions from Hanoverian bloodlines and lines which came via Redefin gained a big influence on the Brandenburg breed.

Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda

Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda (5 March 1746, Hoya - 18 May 1803, Regensburg) was a Hanoverian jurist and government minister.

George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal

He then served Frederick the Great as his ambassador to Spain from 1759 to 1761, informing the Hanoverian government of Spanish preparations to enter the war on France's side, which gained him his pardon by George II on 29 May 1759.

Guelphic Legion

In the fall of 1866, a large number of Hanoverian soldiers left Hanover for Holland at the behest of King George V and his newly established court at Hietzing near Vienna.

Hanover school of architecture

At the first major North German building trade school in Holzminden, there was a group of Hase's admirers in the teachers' association Kunstclubb ("Art club") who sought to spread the Hanoverian school in the 1860s.

Hanoverian Western Railway

The Hanoverian Western Railway was a line from the Löhne to Emden, built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in the mid-19th century in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover in the modern German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Kohlrausch

In 1830 he was appointed Oberschulrat (Director of Schools) by the Hanoverian government.

Johann Philipp von Hattorf

Johann Philipp von Hattorf (6 March 1682 – 3 September 1737) was a Hanoverian minister and head of the German Chancery in London from 1723 until 1737.

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

In July 1714, during Queen Anne's last illness, the unexpected presence of Argyll and the Duke of Somerset at the Privy Council prevented Bolingbroke from taking full power on the fall of Oxford, and thus perhaps secured the Hanoverian succession.

Lord John Grey

Later that year, he accepted a posting as the English liaison officer to the Imperial Fifth Regiment of Hanoverian Foot.

Lord John series

Set in 1758, the story finds Lord John in Prussia serving as the English liaison officer to the First Regiment of Hanoverian Foot.

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

After the war, the exiled Hanoverian royal family took up residence in Hietzing, near Vienna, but spent a good deal of time in Paris.

Qualified Chapel

A Qualified Chapel in eighteenth and nineteenth century Scotland was an Episcopal congregation that worshipped liturgically but accepted the Hanoverian monarchy and thereby "qualified" under the Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 for exemption from the penal laws against the Episcopal Church of Scotland .

Roger Acherley

London (1727), which was written to demonstrate the constitutional fitness of the accession of William III, and of the Hanoverian succession; a second edition, issued in 1759, incorporated ‘Reasons for Uniformity in the State, being a Supplement to the Britannic Constitution,’ which first appeared in 1741.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

The Göttingen–Arenshausen and NortheimEllrich lines were not completed until after the transfer of the Hanoverian State Railways to Prussia after the War of 1866.

The link to the Dutch railway network was achieved from Hanoverian Salzbergen through Bentheim to Oldenzaal.

Sharpe's Triumph

Colonel Anthony Pohlmann – the defected Hanoverian sergeant who became Scindia's army commander

State of Hanover

Excluded were the eastern areas belonging to Brunswick including the district of Blankenburg and the exclave of Calvörde (part of the district of Helmstedt), which fell within the Soviet Zone and was integrated into the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and the Hanoverian Amt of Neuhaus, which also lay on Soviet-occupied territory and was not united with Lower Saxony until 1993.

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch

King George spent some days in 1822 as the Duke's guest at Dalkeith Palace, the first visit of a reigning Hanoverian monarch to Scotland.


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