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Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 [27 December 1619 (N.S.)] – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) [9 December 1682 (N.S)]) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor.
The Electoral Palatinate (German: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (Pfalz), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (Kurfürstentum Pfalz), was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire.
At the sieges of Louvain (1635) and Bfeda (1637) Rupert distinguished himself in open combat and learned the many fine points of siege warfare. In 1638 the young royal assumed his first command as colonel of cavalry in his brother’s ill-fated expedition to retake the Palatinate from the Hapsburgs.
The regesta of Rupert were published between 1912 and 1939 as “The regesta of the counts Palatine of the Rhine”, edited by L.v. Oberdorff and M. Krebs.
The Palatinate consisted of two small regions in southern Germany near the Rhine River. The Lower or Rhenish Palatinate which was also called the Pfalz was located in southwest Germany east of Luxembourg along both sides of the Middle Rhine River.
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Jan 17, 2022 · One group of about 3,000 Palatine Germans looking for a better life finally set sail to America in January of 1710, approximately a year after they left their homes in Germany. There were so many passengers making the overseas journey that the fleet required ten ships.
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