Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The King's Dutch Brigade was a brigade of the British army, organised by the Hereditary Prince of Orange out of former officers and lower ranks of the former Dutch States Army, deserters from the Batavian army, and mutineers from the Batavian fleet that had surrendered to the Royal Navy in the Vlieter Incident during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799, but fully in British service and paid for by the British government. It was commissioned on 21 October 1799 on the Isle of Wight, saw service in Ireland in the first half of 1801, and afterward on the Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey. The brigade was decommissioned on 12 July 1802, as agreed in the Treaty of Amiens of 25 March 1802.. }
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- King's_Dutch_Brigade abstract "The King's Dutch Brigade was a brigade of the British army, organised by the Hereditary Prince of Orange out of former officers and lower ranks of the former Dutch States Army, deserters from the Batavian army, and mutineers from the Batavian fleet that had surrendered to the Royal Navy in the Vlieter Incident during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799, but fully in British service and paid for by the British government. It was commissioned on 21 October 1799 on the Isle of Wight, saw service in Ireland in the first half of 1801, and afterward on the Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey. The brigade was decommissioned on 12 July 1802, as agreed in the Treaty of Amiens of 25 March 1802.".