Hanoverian Monarchs Of Good Britain
Ernest Augustus in 1692 had obtained from the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I the designation of his principality as the ninth electorate of the empire, called officially Brunswick-Lüneburg but generally Hanover. Hanover, German Hannover, former state of northwestern Germany, initially an electorate (1692–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire, then a kingdom (1814–66), and ultimately a Prussian province (1866–1945). Just after Globe War II the state was administratively abolished its former territory formed about 80 % of the Land of Reduce Saxony. The Kingdom of Hanover maintained an army just after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1832, King William IV of Hanover...