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A Duke's Revenge and the Black Brunswickers
A Kansas City Times account details Frederick William of Brunswick organizing 2000 cavalrymen into the Black Brunswickers after Napoleon refused to bury his father’s body in Brunswick. Clad in black with skull and crossbones, they waged guerrilla warfare across Saxony, Hesse, and Hanover, thrilling Germany and challenging French forces until Napoleon’s downfall.
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Napoleon I
Frederi William
Duke of
Brunswick
Hussars
Napoleon
Frederick William
Quatre Bras
Bohemia
Princess of Wales
Germany
Napolean
Prussia
Bavaria
Saxony
France
Bonaparte
St. Helena
Duke
von Stein
Scharnhorst
Hesse
Hanover
Berneck
Junot
Zittau
Malberstadt
Leipzig
Wagram
England
Duke of Brunswick
Paris
Kansas City