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In The '''Hanoverian Regiments''' were in India 1782-1792.
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Two regiments were raised to serve in India, from the region known as Chur- Hannover or Kurhannover. There A map is a map shown in [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurhannover Kurhannover] (German language Wikipedia).
The troops were also known as Electoral troops, or Hanoverian Electoral troops, a reference to George III who was also Elector of Hannover.
==Histories==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=e_BhWkIKNUoC&pg=PA266 Major Frederick Breymann] served in the 14th Hanoverian Regiment in India October 1786- October 1792, the first two years as a soldier and non commissioned officer. ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book Third Edition Volume 5'' by John Philippart 1820 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uQt4PleGb8QC&pg=PA96 Major General Peter Duplat] served in the 16th Hanovarian Regiment for its period in India. ''The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Third Edition Volume 3'' by John Philippart 1820 Google Book
*Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt (1750–1804) . In 1781 he was assigned to the post of chaplain of the 15th regiment of the army of Hanover. He served as chaplain in Madras and Arcot and in 1787 returned to Germany owing to weak health. He is the subject of the article by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi "The Experienced Traveller as a Professional Author: Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, Georg Forster and Colonialism Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany", in ''History: Journal of the Historical Association'' 16 December 2009 available online, [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00471.x/full html version] or page 7 of the [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00471.x/pdf pdf version] (Wiley Online Library).
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pohlmann Anthony Pohlmann] Wikipedia. He arrived in India as a sergeant in a Hanoverian regiment and subsequently took employment in the army of the Maratha prince, Daulat Scindia. At the Battle of Assaye in 1803, he effectively commanded all the regular battalions in the Maratha army.
