Anglo-Allied Army
When the Duke of Wellington arrived to take to the command of the Allied Army in April 1815 he found only the original Subsidiary Army, commanded by HRH General The Prince of Orange, which had been stationed in the Low Countries since the end of the previous war in 1814. This was a small force of British and Hanoverians kept here to assist with the formation of the new country of The Netherlands and to guarantee its borders. When Napoleon left Elba and landed in France, taking over the government of that country once again, the Allied Nations at the Congress of Vienna resolved to remove him from the throne and this meant that the army in Flanders would have to be reinforced for a war.
On 11 April 1815, Wellington issued a General Order assuming the command of the Allied Forces in Flanders and he reorganized the army, merging the British-Hanoverian Forces with those of the Netherlands. The army was reinforced over the next three months [April, May, and June] by Great Britain, The Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau. The army, at this time, was then made up of the forces of Great Britain [including the King’s German Legion of Hanoverians], the Hanoverian Subsidiary Corps in British pay [part of the old Subsidiary Army], the forces of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands [Dutch, Belgians, and Nassauers in Netherlands Service] and the treaty contingent forces of Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau.
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