Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)

Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)

German nobleman and soldier

Biography

Prince Carl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a distinguished soldier, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the service of the king of the Netherlands. He fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo where he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Dutch Division, and later became a Chief Commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.

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