Lot Essay
Major-General George Muller, [C.B.], [K.H.], entered the service of the King's German Legion as a Captain in 1803 and was promoted to Major on 18.2.1813, then Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet with effect from 18.6.1815. He served in the Hanover Expedition of 1805, the Mediterranean between 1806-07, the Baltic between 1807-08, the Peninsula between 1809-11, North Germany between 1813-14, the Netherlands in 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815, where he commanded his Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Muller was severely wounded at Fuentes d'Onor on 5.5.1811. He appears on the British Army Half-Pay List from 24.2.1816, then as Major-General by Brevet on Hanoverian Half-Pay and Commandant at Celle. He retired in 1826. He was created a Companion of the Bath, Military Division (London Gazette 16.9.1815 refers), a Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order and was in receipt of the Field Officer's Gold Medal for Talavera, the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 with clasps for Busaco and Fuentes d'Onor, the Waterloo Medal 1815 and the Hanoverian King William's Cross.