#WaterlooRemembered Day 2 Forgotten foreign forces - The King's German Legion. In the first interview of the series I speak to Hailey Stewart about the KGL & Brunswick troops who played a key yet neglected role in the campaign. Please share widely, post questions and comments, and thank you to everyone who has listened so far. Join me tomorrow when I will be speaking to Alicia Laspra about Spain during this conflict. https://anchor.fm/the-napoleonicist/episodes/Waterloo-Remembered-Day-2-Forgotten-Foreign-Forces---The-Kings-German-Legion-ef2g22
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This is an issue in which I did not agree with Brendan Simms after lengthy discussions. As I wrote in our Waterloo book, three thirds of the men in LHS were armed with muskets, as not all men in the Light Battalions were armed with the Brown Bess, and there were the men from the 5th Line Battalion, KGL and the Nassauers. In my opinion ammunition was generally not available at the moment or too difficult to bring over to LHS. Musket ammunition could not be used in the Baker Rifle as the latter had a smaller caliber of .653 copared to .75.