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Mainland Europe used to consist of small Princedoms, Duchies and Kingdoms. One such kingdom was The Kingdom of Hanover which was gifted to a Scottish King when he arranged for his grand daughter Sophia to marry a Germanic Prince. There are many places in the UK with place names eminating from Hannover = such as Brunswick Square, the Hannover placename being Braunschweig (Braunschweig or Brunswick is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker). The army raised in The Kingdom of Hanover was known as the Hessian Army and I believe it was sometimes stationed in the south of England. If the soldiers finished their army service in England, they often stayed in England.
Prussia and Austria tried to pursuade the Kingdom of Hanover to join them in a Germanic state, Hannover refused and was invaded by Prussia. Apparently, the Prussian army was brutal Many Hanovarians managed to secretly escape to other countries.
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