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Hanover Town: German influence in the country, as apart from the court, was nonexistent. It was introduced not by the Georges in the 18th century but by Prince Albert in the 19th. Hanover was almost as unpopular among the Whigs as among the Jacobites, and xenophobia was prevalent. A politician might seek to curry favor with the King by an apparent eagerness to forward the interests of Hanover, but such a line was no recommendation to the King's British subjects. The Elder Pitt first acquired his hold on the man in the street by opposing any preference for Hanoverian, over national, needs.
HANOVER, han'6-var, the royal family that reigned in Britain from 1714 to 1901. The Han-overs belonged to the German princely family of Welf (Guelph), who had acquired the city of Hannover in 1235. Duke Ernest Augustus (1629-1698), first elector of the new duchy of Hannover, married Sophia of the Palatinate (1630-1714), granddaughter of James I of England, and by the Act of Settlement of 1701 the British succession went to the house of Hanover. Their son, George Louis, ruler of Hannover, became George I of England as well, succeeding the Stuart Queen Anne.
Gen. Lew about 260 men. Dahlgren crossed the Pamunkey at Hanover Town, and the Mattapony at Ay-fsFord, and about midnight 2 March fell into ibuscade and was killed. Others were and wounded, nearly all were captured. Captain Mitchell reports that of the 500 men of Dahlgren's command 61 were killed and founded, and 138 captured. The total loss of Elpatrick's command, including Dahlgren's, was about 350. Consult 'Official Records' (Vol. XXXIII) ; Humphreys, 'From Gettysburg to the Rapidan' ; The Century Company's 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War' (Vol. IV). |
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