Hannoverian

To remedy the West’s plight, and despite East and West Germans’ conflicts over Berlin, Hannoverian Businessman Hans-Joachim Ermeler, 45, reached across the Iron Curtain and asked East Berlin’s Trade Commission if it would be interested in shipping 60,000 fresh Brötchen over the border each morning.

When America’s Founding Fathers had won their revolution, they were presented with a challenge. What oath should be sworn? […] As British subjects they were used to swearing an oath of personal fealty to the Hannoverian monarch.

"Isn't the English national team an anachronism?" asks Ulrich Steckelberg. "With one national team for the entire UK - Britain would be a top competitor for years to come. The Germans don't go to the World Cup with a Bavarian or a Hannoverian team - and they've only been united since 1871 and not since 1707."

Of the 12 cavalry brigades, seven were British and many of their regiments were German. Half the 29 batteries of guns were Hannoverian, Dutch or Belgian.

The stable has become his second home, he says, with Christenson as his role model and Staatsmann, his 17-hand Hannoverian, almost like a brother.

The official continued: "Also, this was not just about Britain and France. Wellington's forces included Belgians, Dutch and Hannoverians. Blucher's Prussians played a decisive role at the end of the battle."

More than half of Wellington’s own force consisted of Hannoverians, Saxons, Dutch and Belgians.