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HOME GUARD: THE FORCES TO MEET THE EXPECTED FRENCH INVASION / 1 SEPTEMBER 1805 The Peace of Amiens lasted 14 months, until Britain declared war on France on 18 May 1803. Napoleon turned his attention to invading England, saying: "All my thoughts are directed towards England. I want only for a favourable wind to plant the Imperial Eagle on the Tower of London." He started to assemble an expeditionary force at Boulogne. The invasion scare started in the middle of 1803. In the next six months, the British government's call for volunteers to resist an invasion was met with a massive response; within a few weeks 280,000 men had volunteered, and the government was unprepared for this numbers of volunteers. The Invasion Scare lasted for roughly two years. Britain’s ‘Home Guard’ of an earlier era watched the coast of France nervously as the Emperor Napoleon assembled a vast armed camp centred on Boulogne, and named them the ‘Army of England’. On 26 August 1805, in response to dramatically changing political events in the east, the Emperor Napoleon ordered Marechal Berthier to send the newly-christened Grande Armèe on a line of march eastwards, ultimately towards Ulm, Vienna and the foggy hills of Austerlitz. Some 180,000 French troops left Boulogne. The Invasion Scare was over. The British Army to repel such an invasion, had it come, was as follows. Many of the General Officers were tasked with commanding the numerous Militia and Volunteer units, and seemingly often held multiple commands. This article, drawn from wide variety of articles and not all of a common date, presents as close a picture as can be discovered of the organisation and location of the regulars, militia and volunteers in the week Napoleon turned east. Had he ignored the threats from Austria and boarded the boats in the channel, this is the army he would have faced. It seems to have been the intent that each mainland District (commanded by a general or a lieutenant-general) have a total strength of around 25–30,000 men – that is to say, about the same size as a French Corps d’Armee - with representation by all arms (cavalry, infantry, artillery) with second- and third-line troops (militia and volunteers) added to make up the shortfall. These reports make it plain how the bulk of the regular army was clustered along the southern coast, the northern and inland counties relying on militia to provide the bulk of trained (or partly-trained) soldiery. Regular Army units are shown in bold. Figures are reported effective rank-and-file strengths as per the 1 September return in WO 17/2789. Many of the newly- raised and still-forming regular battalions were drastically low in numbers. Militia and Volunteer units are shown in plain text. Militia effective strengths are also from WO 17/2789. Sub-divisions of a unit (companies and troops) serving in different places are shown. Note that many militia regiments did not have a ten company establishment. Militia regiments were composed of men bound to serve in England, Wales and Scotland only, and did not serve on the Channel Islands. Volunteer strengths are somewhat approximate, being based upon Returns presented to the House of Commons in March 1806, in which many units show men being absent without leave. As a rule, yeomanry (volunteer cavalry) units dressed as per regular light cavalry, viz. blue coats and Tarleton hats; volunteer infantry wore red as per the regulars; many volunteer rifle and marksmen units wore dark green, as per the Rifles. Further details are beyond the scope of this work. Anyone wanting further details of the various volunteer regiments of this time is directed towards the List of Officers of the Militia and Volunteers in two volumes from Naval & Military Press; and also the document ‘Returns Presented to the House of Commons of the Volunteer Corps, 1806’ available online, which enumerates every single one of the hundreds of yeomanry and volunteer regiments, no matter how small. To reproduce them in this document (other than by abstract) would have rendered this paper unwieldy. A number of factors have become revealed by this study. Firstly, how regular and militia battalions were in many instances brigaded together, almost certainly to the betterment of the latter, who had the example of trained regulars in their midst to raise their proficiency. Secondly, just how weak in numbers many of the newly- Page 1 of 44 Placed on the Napoleon Series August 2015 The Napoleon Series Home Guard: 1805 formed second battalions actually were, despite having been formed in 1803 or 1804. There are many instances of regular battalions with less than 100 men, and some instances of less than 50 men. The infantry general depot on the Isle of Wight had only 1635 men in training, and the cavalry depot at Maidstone only 159 men. This contrasts starkly with the strength of the militia battalions, many over 1000 strong. Fortuitously as we now know, many of these militiamen later volunteered into the regulars, and it is likely that the motivation for them to do so started when rubbing shoulders in the common cause during ‘The Great Terror.’ Thirdly, the use of cavalry (in particular) in dispersed detachments across wide areas, especially near the coast, where they were to patrol in small detachments across many lonely miles of beachfront, and act as the eyes of the army. Fourthly, notice how militia regiments rarely served in their home or adjoining counties, meaning that they could never be asked to act as law-enforcers to potential friends and relatives, but also making it much harder to slip away home. These returns show a total of 9310 artillerymen, 15684 cavalrymen, 50138 infantrymen, 55818 militiamen and approximately 212,500 volunteers (rank-and-file effectives only) available in England, Wales and Scotland on 1 September 1805, or 343,000 men all told. It is telling that the volunteers make up 62% of this force and the regular infantry less than 15%. This data might be of interest to wargamers with an interest in playing various small ‘What If’ scenarios – having one of Napoleon’s 1805 Corps d’Armee invading Jersey and Guernsey, or the Isle of Wight, for example. Or Scotland! Militia regiments would count as trained militia, and volunteers as a mix of trained and untrained militia. It is intriguing to think what Napoleon would have done with this information to hand – the knowledge that the four northernmost counties in England were manned by just 34 regular infantryman, or that the entire Bristol Channel was defended by only 500 regulars, for example – had he the naval support and boats to get his army that far!
LEGEND: CO = Commanding Officer HQ = Headquarters IFO = Inspecting Field Officer
BIBLIOGRAPHY - WO 17/2789 - Quarters of troops in Great Britain, 1805 May - 1806 March. National Archives. - Returns, Presented to the House of Commons, of the Volunteer Corps of Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery, in Great Britain. 1806. - Army Lists, 1805.
By Steve Brown
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NORTHERN DISTRICT Covered Northumberland, Westmoreland, Cumberland & Durham GOC: Lt Gen Sir Hew Dalrymple HQ: Newcastle Upon Tyne HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO QUARTERS Brigade of Boger’s Company/1st Battalion, Royal Capt Turtliff Boger Tynemouth Barracks Maj Gen Henry George Regiment of Artillery 212 Grey Geary’s Company/5th Battalion, Royal HQ: Newcastle Upon Capt Henry Geary Tynemouth Barracks Regiment of Artillery Tyne Royal Artillery Drivers 248 Tynemouth Barracks Lt Col Hon. George de 1st (or Royal) Regiment of Dragoons 183 Newcastle Upon Tyne (3 tp) Grey Newcastle Upon Tyne (7 co) Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia 674 Lt Col Samuel Lacey Whitburn Barracks (1 co) Tynemouth Barracks (5 co) Sussex Regiment of Militia 887 Lt Col James Martin Lloyd North Shields Barracks (5 co) Whitburn Barracks (1 co) Lt Col William Lewis Royal Anglesea Regiment of Militia 154 Newcastle Upon Tyne (2 co) Hughes Infantry Brigade of 2/25th (or The King’s Own Borderers) 34 Col Arthur Aylmer Whitburn Barracks Maj Gen Baldwin Regiment of Foot Leighton Sunderland Barracks (7 co) HQ: Sunderland 1st North Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia 462 Lt Col Richard Ellison Monkswearmouth (1 co) Sunderland Barracks (8 co) 2nd Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia 924 Lt Col Edward Wilson Fretwell Barracks (2 co) Volunteers superintended Durham yeoman cavalry 337 by Brig Gen Walter Kerr HQ: Tynemouth Durham volunteer infantry 2629 IFO: Lt Col Daniel Seddon Durham Durham volunteer artillery 289 Northumberland yeoman cavalry 273 Northumberland volunteer infantry 2963 IFO: Lt Col Charles Rawdon Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumberland volunteer artillery 24
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Volunteers superintended Cumberland yeoman cavalry 37 by Brig Gen Leonard IFO: Lt Col William Harris Carlisle Cumberland volunteer infantry 2005 Shafto Orde HQ: Temple Sowerby Westmorland volunteer infantry 1264 IFO: Lt Col William Harris Temple Sowerby Westmoreland volunteer artillery 169 Volunteers superintended Isle of Man yeoman cavalry 38 by Capt Cornelius Smelt IFO: Capt Cornelius Smelt Douglas HQ: Douglas Isle of Man volunteer infantry 1015 Artillery – 460, Cavalry – 183, Infantry – 34, Militia – 3101, Volunteers – 11043, TOTAL = 14821
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YORK DISTRICT Covered Yorkshire & Lincolnshire GOC: Lt Gen Richard Vyse HQ: Beverley GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO HEADQUARTERS Brigade of Leake’s Company/1st Battalion, Royal Capt John Dyer Hull Lt Gen Richard Vyse Regiment of Artillery 149 HQ: Beverley Desbrisay’s Company/2nd Battalion, Capt George Desbrisay Hull Royal Regiment of Artillery York Barracks (2 tp) Lt Col Hon. George de 1st (or Royal) Regiment of Dragoons 497 Leeds (2 tp) Grey Tadcaster (1 tp) Beverley (1 tp) Sheffield (2 tp) 3rd (or King’s Own) Regiment of Lt Col Godfrey Basil 359 Lincoln (1 tp) Dragoons Mundy Louth (1 tp) Boston (1 tp) 2/8th (or the King’s) Regiment of Foot 172 Col Daniel Hoghton Bridlington (10 co) 2/15th (or the Yorkshire East Riding) Scarborough town and castle (10 179 Lt Col William Pearse Regiment of Foot co) 51st (or the 2nd Yorkshire West Riding) 140 Whitby (det) Regiment of Foot - detachment Infantry Brigade of Royal Middlesex (West) Regiment of Militia 865 Lt Col David Rae, Bt. Hull (10 co) Maj Gen Alexander McKenzie 2nd Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia 561 Lt Col Thomas Sutton Hull (8 co) HQ: Hull 3rd Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia 450 Lt Col Richard Brackenbury Beverley (8 co) Lt Col Samuel Edward 1st Warwickshire Regiment of Militia 926 Hull Barracks (10 co) Steward 1st (West Riding) Brigade of Volunteers Yorkshire West Riding yeoman cavalry 658 IFO: Lt Col William Gooch Hesley Brig Gen John Hodgson HQ: York Yorkshire West Riding volunteer infantry 2904 IFO: Lt Col Balcomb York
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2nd (West Riding) Yorkshire West Riding yeoman cavalry 658 IFO: Lt Col William Gooch Hesley Brigade of Volunteers Brig Gen Ronald Craufurd Ferguson Yorkshire West Riding volunteer infantry 4912 IFO: Lt Col Robert Bell Doncaster HQ: Doncaster 3rd (East & West Yorkshire East and West Riding yeoman Ridings) Brigade of 186 IFO: Lt Col Harcourt Master cavalry Bridlington Volunteers IFO: Lt Col Christopher Yorkshire East and West Riding volunteer Beverley Brig Gen John Hodgson 3067 Machell HQ: York infantry 4th (North Riding) Yorkshire North Riding yeoman cavalry 206 IFO: Lt Col Henry Pulleine Richmond Brigade of Volunteers Maj Gen Edwin Hewgill IFO: Lt Col Thomas Grey Northallerton Yorkshire North Riding volunteer infantry 3406 HQ: Hornby Grange IFO: Lt Col Gordon Skelly Richmond 5th (Lincolnshire) Lincolnshire yeoman cavalry 534 Brigade of Volunteers IFO: Lt Col George Robert Stamford Brig Gen William Murray Ainslie Lincolnshire volunteer infantry 2835 HQ: Lincoln Artillery – 149, Cavalry – 856, Infantry – 491, Militia – 2802, Volunteers – 19366, TOTAL = 23664
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EASTERN DISTRICT Covered Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire & Essex, exclusive of Beacontree, Waltham & Tilbury Fort GOC: Lt Gen Sir James Murray-Pulteney Bt. HQ: Colchester GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO HEADQUARTERS Artillery Reserve of Fry’s Company/1st Battalion, Royal Capt Oliver Fry Colchester Barracks Lt Gen Sir James Murray- Regiment of Artillery Pulteney Bt. Francklin’s Company/2nd Battalion, HQ: Colchester Capt T Francklin Colchester Barracks Royal Regiment of Artillery Campbell’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal 877 Capt Allen Campbell Norwich Barracks Regiment of Artillery MacLean’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Joseph McLean Ipswich Barracks Regiment of Artillery Fyer’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Peter Fyers Ipswich Barracks Regiment of Artillery A Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Capt George Wood Woodbridge Regiment of Artillery 259 G Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Capt Augustus Frazer Colchester Barracks Regiment of Artillery Royal Waggon Train 149 Chelmsford (2 co) Cavalry Brigade of Ipswich Barracks (6 tp) 2nd (or Royal North British) Regiment of Maj Gen Lord Paget 616 Lt Col Archibald Bothwell Ipswich town (2 tp) Dragoons HQ: Ipswich Colchester (2 tp) Ipswich Barracks (8 tp) 7th (or the Queen's Own) Regiment of Lt Col Richard Hussey 782 Maldon Barracks (1 tp) Light Dragoons Vivian Saxmundham (1 tp) 21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Woodbridge Barracks (8 tp) 560 Lt Col Wilkinson L Kaye Weeley Barracks (1 tp) Norwich Barracks (1 tp)
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Infantry Brigade of 1/5th (or the Northumberland) Regiment 956 Lt Col Humphrey Davie Colchester Barracks (10 co) Brig Gen John Coape of Foot Sherbrooke 2/7th Regiment of Foot (or Royal 448 Lt Col William J Myers Colchester Barracks (10 co) HQ: Colchester Fuzileers) 2/34th (or the Cumberland) Regiment of 492 Colchester Barracks (10 co) Foot Infantry Brigade of Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia 640 Lt Col J H Telson Colchester Barracks (8 co) Brig Gen Lord West Kent Regiment of Militia 736 Lt Col Thomas Dalton Colchester Barracks (10 co) Montgomerie HQ: Colchester Ayrshire Regiment of Militia 543 Lt Col Lord Montgomerie Colchester Barracks (7 co) Highland Brigade 1/42nd (or the Royal Highland) Regiment 832 Lt Col James Stirling Weeley Barracks (10 co) (vacant) of Foot HQ: Weeley Barracks Lt Col James Caitlin 1/91st Regiment of Foot 583 Weeley Barracks (10 co) Craufurd 1/92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot 930 Lt Col Alexander Napier Weeley Barracks (10 co) Infantry Brigade of Royal Middlesex (East) Regiment of Militia 1068 Lt Col John Gibbons Ipswich Barracks (12 co) Lt Gen Lord Fitzroy Hertfordshire Fusiliers Regiment of Militia 514 Lt Col Robert Chester Ipswich Barracks (10 co) HQ: Ipswich West Suffolk Regiment of Militia 608 Lt Col William Parker Ipswich Barracks (10 co) Infantry Brigade of 1st Shropshire Regiment of Militia 1021 Lt Col Edward Gatacre Ipswich Barracks (10 co) Maj Gen John Robinson Lt Col Thomas William Royal Berkshire Regiment of Militia 611 Ipswich Barracks (10 co) HQ: Ipswich Ravenshaw Infantry Brigade of 2/10th (or the North Lincolnshire) 118 Lt Col David Parkhill Maldon Barracks Maj Gen Duncan Regiment of Foot Campbell 2/36th (or the Herefordshire) Regiment of 14 Lt Col George Hart Chelmsford Barracks HQ: Chelmsford Foot Royal Buckinghamshire (Kings Own) 541 Lt Col Benjamin Way Chelmsford Barracks (10 co) Regiment of Militia East Kent Regiment of Militia 426 Lt Col William Pemell Chelmsford Barracks (10 co) Infantry Brigade of Lt Col James, Earl of Norwich Barracks (4 co) Maj Gen George Milner Ross-shire Regiment of Militia 558 Caithness Yarmouth (4 co) HQ: Norwich
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Infantry Brigade of Royal Middlesex (Westminster) Regiment of 883 Lt Col William Allan Norman Cross Barracks (10 co) Brig Gen Nicholas Militia Nepean Norman Cross Barracks (4 co) HQ: Norman Cross Durham Regiment of Militia 499 Lt Col James O’Callaghan Peterborough (1 co) Shilton (1 co) Garrison of Landguard Harwich Barracks (7 co) Leicestershire Regiment of Militia 697 Lt Col Clement Winstanley Fort Landguard Fort (3 co) Recruiting 2/63rd (or the West Suffolk) Regiment of Lt Col Thomas Bligh St 55 Bury St Edmunds Foot George Volunteers superintended Suffolk yeoman cavalry 558 IFO: Lt Col Gideon Shairpe by Maj Gen John Money IFO: Lt Col Smith HQ: Ipswich Ipswich Suffolk volunteer infantry 4842 IFO: Lt Col John Hugh McLeroth Volunteers superintended IFO: Lt Col Frederick Norfolk yeoman cavalry 411 by Maj Gen George Metzner Norwich Milner IFO: Lt Col Frederick Norfolk volunteer infantry 3448 HQ: Norwich Keppel Volunteers superintended by Brig Gen Hon. Charles Huntingdonshire & Cambridgeshire IFO: Lt Col Sir Edward 2096 Cambridge William Stewart volunteer infantry Baynes HQ: Cambridge Volunteers superintended Essex yeoman cavalry 775 by Maj Gen Ramsay IFO: Lt Col Charles Luther Chelmsford HQ: Chelmsford Watson Essex volunteer infantry 2726
Artillery – 1136, Cavalry – 2107, Infantry – 4428, Militia – 9610, Volunteers – 14856, TOTAL = 32137
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT (KENT) Covered Kent east of the River Cray and Holwood Hill; Sussex, and Tilbury Fort in Essex GOC: Gen Sir David Dundas, Lt Gen Francis Dundas HQ: Canterbury GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO HEADQUARTERS Artillery Reserve of E Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal 132 Capt George Bulteel Fisher Canterbury Barracks Brig Gen Robert Lawson Regiment of Artillery HQ: Chatham Beevor’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Robert Beevor Dover Regiment of Artillery Truscott’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Robert Truscott Canterbury Barracks Regiment of Artillery Newhouse’s Company/3rd Battalion, Capt Charles Newhouse Dover Royal Regiment of Artillery 718 Marsh’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Henry Marsh Battle Regiment of Artillery Adye’s Company/5th Battalion, Royal Capt Stephen Galway Adye Chatham Barracks Regiment of Artillery Buckner’s Company/8th Battalion, Royal Capt R Buckner Chatham Barracks Regiment of Artillery Royal Artillery Drivers 522 Canterbury Barracks Royal Waggon Train 270 Canterbury Barracks (3 tp) Canterbury Barracks and coast Royal Radnorshire Regiment of Militia 131 Col John Walsham Garbett of Kent (3 co) Brigade of 4th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon 473 Lt Col Henry Teesdale Canterbury Barracks (8 tp) Maj Gen Miles Staveley Guards HQ: Canterbury Lt Col A McDonald Royal Lanarkshire Regiment of Militia 963 Canterbury Barracks (10 co) Lockhart
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Cavalry Brigade of Hythe Barracks & town (2 tp) Maj Gen William Romney Barracks & town (3 tp) Cartwright Lt Col George Thomas Brabourne Lees Barracks (2 tp) 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 673 HQ: Deal Thomas Dover (1 tp) Folkestone (1 tp) Ashford (1 tp) Ramsgate Barracks (2 tp) Stonar Barracks (2 tp) 13th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 719 Col Robert Bolton Sandwich (2 tp) Deal Barracks (4 tp) Brigade of Guards of Capt & Lt Col Hon. 1/1st Regiment of Foot Guards 1263 Deal Barracks (13 co) Maj Gen Henry Wynyard Francis Gerard Lake HQ: Deal 3/1st Regiment of Foot Guards 1023 Col Moore Disney Deal Barracks (10 co) Brigade of Guards of Capt & Lt Col Thomas 1/Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 1071 Chatham Barracks (10 co) Maj Gen Hon. Edward Armstrong Finch Capt & Lt Col William 1/3rd Regiment of Foot Guards 1075 Chatham Barracks (10 co) HQ: Chatham Thomas Dilkes Royal Denbighshire Regiment of Militia 348 Lt Col John Lloyd Salusberry Chatham Camp (5 co) Fifeshire Regiment of Militia 546 Lt Col James Wemyss Chatham Camp (8 co) Infantry Brigades of 1/43rd (or the Monmouthshire) Regiment 982 Lt Col Richard Stuart Shorncliffe Camp (10 co) Maj Gen Sir John Moore of Foot (Light Infantry) HQ: Sandgate 2/43rd (or the Monmouthshire) Regiment 211 Lt Col William Gifford Hythe Barracks (10 co) of Foot (Light Infantry) 1/52nd (or the Oxfordshire) Regiment of 987 Lt Col Kenneth McKenzie Shorncliffe Camp (10 co) Foot (Light Infantry) 2/52nd (or the Oxfordshire) Regiment of 575 Lt Col John Stewart Hythe Barracks (10 co) Foot (Light Infantry) 2/78th ( Highland) Regiment of Foot (or 858 Lt Col Patrick McLeod Shorncliffe Barracks (10 co) the Rossshire Buffs) South Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia 475 Lt Col John Bromhead Hythe Barracks (8 co) Royal Flintshire Regiment of Militia 219 Lt Col Thomas Hanmer Fort Twiss (4 co) Lt Col Rt. Hon. Charles Cambridgeshire Regiment of Militia 472 Lympne Camp (8 co) Yorke Lt Col John Palmer Royal Cardiganshire Regiment of Militia 325 Dungeness Barracks (4 co) Chichester
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Rifle Brigade of Lt Col Thomas Sidney 1/95th Regiment of Foot (Rifle Corps) 809 Brabourne Lees Barracks Maj Gen Coote Beckwith Manningham HQ: Brabourne Lees 2/95th Regiment of Foot (Rifle Corps) 763 Lt Col Hamlet Wade Brabourne Lees Barracks Infantry Brigade of 1st Yorkshire (West Riding) Regiment of 980 Lt Col John Dixon Ashford Barracks (10 co) Maj Gen Sir Charles Ross Militia HQ: Ashford 3rd Yorkshire (West Riding) Regiment of 560 Lt Col George Wroughton Ashford Barracks (12 co) Militia Infantry Brigade of Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia 803 Lt Col Justinian Isham Dover Castle (10 co) Maj Gen Lord Forbes Yorkshire (East Riding) Regiment of Militia 595 Lt Col Arthur Maister Dover Barracks (8 co) HQ: Dover 1st Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia 608 Lt Col John Waterhouse Western Heights, Dover (8 co) Herefordshire Regiment of Militia 571 Lt Col Thomas Foley Dover Castle (10 co) Infantry Brigade of Maj Gen William Northumberland Regiment of Militia 696 Lt Col William Dent Ospringe Barracks (10 co) Thornton HQ: Ospringe Garrison of Isle of Thanet Margate Barracks and town (10 Renfrewshire Regiment of Militia 482 Lt Col James Dunlop Brig Gen Sir Samuel co) Auchmuty Ramsgate Barracks and town (9 HQ: Ramsgate Royal Perthshire Regiment of Militia 844 Lt Col Colin Campbell co) Broadstairs (1 co) Cavalry Depot Brig Gen James Hay Cavalry Depot 159 Maidstone Barracks HQ: Maidstone Garrison of Sheerness 2nd Garrison Battalion 457 Lt Col John Smith Sheerness Barracks (10 co) Lt Col Henry Rudyard Garrison of Tilbury Fort Detachments 30 Capt Edward Naish Tilbury Fort Royal Cornwall and Devon (Miners) Fort Pitt Barracks (3 co) Garrison of Fort Pitt 284 Lt Col John Lemon Regiment of Militia Dover Barracks (2 co) Volunteers superintended East Kent yeoman cavalry 284 by Lt Col Webb East Kent volunteer infantry 1674 IFO: Lt Col Nathaniel Webb Canterbury HQ: Canterbury East Kent volunteer artillery 30
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Volunteers superintended West Kent yeoman cavalry 385 by Lt Col Heneage IFO: Lt Col Heneage West Kent volunteer infantry 2857 Tunbridge Wells Twysden Twysden HQ: Tunbridge Wells West Kent volunteer artillery 149 Volunteers superintended Cinque Ports yeoman cavalry 93 by Lt Col Thomas Cinque Ports volunteer infantry 2381 IFO: Lt Col John Thomas Ramsgate HQ: Ramsgate Cinque Ports volunteer artillery 449 Artillery – 1702, Cavalry – 2024, Infantry – 10104, Militia – 9902, Volunteers – 8302, TOTAL = 32034
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT (SUSSEX) Covered Kent east of the River Cray and Holwood Hill; Sussex, and Tilbury Fort in Essex GOC: Gen Sir David Dundas, Lt Gen The Earl of Chatham HQ: Canterbury GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO HEADQUARTERS Artillery Reserve of B Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal 121 Capt Benjamin Blomfield Brighton Lt Gen The Earl of Regiment of Artillery Chatham Eveleigh’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal HQ: Brighton Capt Henry Eveleigh Ringmer Regiment of Artillery 277 Younghusband’s Company/3rd Battalion, Capt Charles Eastbourne Royal Regiment of Artillery Younghusband King’s German Legion Artillery 238 Bexhill King’s German Legion Artillery Drivers 280 Bexhill Royal Waggon Train 90 Bexhill (1 tp) Royal Staff Corps 100 Rye Barracks (1 co) Cavalry Brigade of Chichester Barracks (5 tp) Maj Gen Francis Hugonin 1st (or the King's) Regiment of Dragoon Arundel Barracks (4 tp) 696 Col Henry Fane HQ: Worthing Guards Worthing Barracks (1 tp) Newly formed (2 tp) 4th (or the Queen's Own) Regiment of Lewes Barracks (8 tp) 603 Lt Col Lord Somerset Dragoons Shoreham Barracks (2 tp) Brighton Barracks & town (10 6th (or Enniskillen) Regiment of Dragoons 671 Lt Col Richard O’Donovan tp) Cavalry Brigade Blatchington Barracks (3 tp) still forming Eastbourne (1 tp) 10th (or the Prince of Wales's Own Royal) HQ: Blatchington 814 Lt Col George Leigh Rye Barracks (2 tp) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Bexhill Barracks (2 tp) Hastings Barracks (2 tp) Infantry Brigade of 1/4th (or the King’s Own) Regiment of 823 Lt Col James Wynch Beachy Head Camp (10 co) Maj Gen Hon. Edward Foot Paget 2/4th (or the King’s Own) Regiment of Lt Col William Henry 420 Beachy Head Camp (10 co) HQ: Beachy Head Foot Espinasse
1/23rd Regiment of Foot (or Royal Welsh 763 Lt Col James Losack Beachy Head Camp (10 co) Fuzileers)
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Infantry Brigade of 2/5th (or the Northumberland) Regiment 334 Lt Col John Baldwin Chichester Barracks (10 co) Maj Gen Charles Crosbie of Foot HQ: Chichester 2/82nd Regiment of Foot (or Prince of 29 Lt Col William Grant Littlehampton Barracks Wales’s Volunteers) 2/83rd Regiment of Foot 213 Lt Col Alexander Gordon Chichester Barracks (10 co) Infantry Brigade of 1/14th (or the Bedfordshire) Regiment of Battle Barracks (6 co) 986 Col William Burnett Maj Gen Brent Spencer Foot Hastings Barracks (4 co) HQ: Hastings 1/40th (or the 2nd Somersetshire) 944 Lt Col Gore Brown Fairlight Camp (10 co) Regiment of Foot 1/88th Regiment of Foot (or Connaught Lt Col Hon. Alexander 658 Fairlight Camp (10 co) Rangers) Duff KGL Brigade of 1st Light Battalion, King’s German Legion 625 Lt Col Ernst Leonhardt Bexhill New Barracks (8 co) Lt Gen George Don 2nd Light Battalion, King’s German 463 Lt Col William Offney Bexhill New Barracks (6 co) HQ: Bexhill Legion Lt Col Christian, Baron 1st Line Battalion, King’s German Legion 627 Bexhill New Barracks (8 co) Ompteda Lt Col Christian de 2nd Line Battalion, King’s German Legion 628 Bexhill Old Barracks (8 co) Losecke 3rd Line Battalion, King’s German Legion 624 Lt Col Georg Klingsohr Bexhill New Barracks (8 co) 4th Line Battalion, King’s German Legion 628 Lt Col Johann Brauns Bexhill Camp (8 co) Infantry Brigade of West Norfolk Regiment of Militia 712 Lt Col George Nelthorpe Clifford Camp (10 co) Maj Gen Alexander Lt Col George Berney Clifford Camp (5 co) East Norfolk Regiment of Militia 698 Mackenzie Fraser Brograve, Bt. Rye & Pleydon Barracks (5 co) HQ: Winchelsea Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia 633 Lt Col John Need Rye & Pleydon Barracks (10 co) Infantry Brigade of Eastbourne Camp (4 co) Brig Gen Moore Disney Lagney Barracks (2 co) 1st Derbyshire Regiment of Militia 978 Lt Col Hon. John Simpson HQ: Eastbourne Culvercross Camp (2 co) Wallsend Camp (2 co) Royal Glamorganshire Regiment of Militia 432 Lt Col Henry Knight Pevensey Barracks (6 co) Caernarvonshire Regiment of Militia 137 Maj John H Hampton Pevensey Barracks (3 co) Lt Col Joseph Francis Royal Cheshire Regiment of Militia 936 Eastbourne Barracks (10 co) Buckworth
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Infantry Brigade of South Hampshire Regiment of Militia 307 Lt Col Peter Serle Lewes Barracks (5 co) Maj Gen William Royal Monmouthshire & Breconshire 491 Lt Col Samuel Fludyer, Bt. Lewes Barracks (9 co) Houston Regiment of Militia HQ: Lewes Dorsetshire Regiment of Militia 405 Lt Col William Morton Pitt Lewes Barracks (6 co) Infantry Brigade of Royal Gloucestershire (South) Regiment of Brighton Barracks & town (10 Maj Gen Earl of Craven 723 Lt Col John Wall Militia co) HQ: Brighton Volunteers superintended Sussex yeoman cavalry 452 by Lt Col Booth and Lt IFO: Lt Col Leeds Booth Sussex volunteer infantry 3832 Lewes Col Lyon IFO: Lt Col George Lyon HQ: Lewes Sussex volunteer artillery 658 Artillery – 1106, Cavalry – 2784, Infantry – 8765, Militia – 6452, Volunteers - 4942, TOTAL = 24049
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SOUTH-WEST DISTRICT Covered Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset GOC: Lt Gen HRH Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, K.G. HQ: Winchester HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL OFFICERS CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO QUARTERS Brigade of 1st Dragoons, King’s German Legion 550 Johann, Baron Reden Radipole Barracks (8 tp) Maj Gen Karl, Baron 1st Light Dragoons, King’s German Linsingen 568 Major de Arentsschildt Weymouth Camp (8 tp) HQ: Weymouth Legion 15th (or the King's) Regiment of (Light) 906 Col George Anson Weymouth Camp (10 tp) Dragoons C Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal 131 Capt Frederick Griffiths Weymouth Camp Regiment of Artillery 1st Horse Company/King’s German Capt Julius Hartmann Weymouth Camp Artillery 161 2nd Horse Company/King’s German Capt Augustus Sympher Weymouth Camp Artillery Artificers, King’s German Legion 159 Christchurch Brigade of Dickson’s Company/6th Battalion, Royal 107 Capt Alexander Dickson Weymouth Camp Brig Gen Hon. Robert Regiment of Artillery Meade 1/21st Regiment of Foot (or Royal North HQ: Weymouth 647 Lt Col Frederick Adam Weymouth Camp (10 co) British Fuzileers) 1/31st (or the Huntingdonshire) Regiment 937 Lt Col Henry Bruce Weymouth Camp (10 co) of Foot 2/35th (or the Sussex ) Regiment of Foot 565 Lt Col Francis J Wilder Weymouth Camp (10 co) Infantry Brigade 1st Somersetshire Regiment of Militia 873 Lt Col John Leigh Weymouth Camp (10 co) (vacant) 2nd Somersetshire Regiment of Militia 843 Lt Col Edward Andrews Weymouth Camp (10 co) HQ: Weymouth Yorkshire (North Riding) Regiment of 1007 Lt Col William Frankland Weymouth Camp (12 co) Militia 1st Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia 873 Lt Col Edward Wilson Weymouth Camp (12 co)
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Infantry Brigade of 2/40th (or the 2nd Somersetshire) Winchester Barracks (10 co) 389 Lt Col James Kemmis Brig Gen Henry Regiment of Foot Portsmouth (det) Mordaunt Clavering 2/90th Regiment of Foot (or Perthshire Winchester Barracks (10 co) 282 Lt Col J M Mainwaring HQ: Winchester Volunteers) Portsmouth (det) RA Depot Hickman’s Company/6th Battalion, Royal 142 Capt Henry Hickman Colewort Barracks Lt Col Charles Terrott Regiment of Artillery HQ: Portsmouth Royal Artillery Drivers 21 Colewort Barracks RE Depot Brig Gen John Eveleigh Royal Military Artificers 180 Gosport Barracks HQ: Portsmouth Portsmouth Garrison of 3/60th (or the Royal American) Regiment Lt Col George William 324 Gosport Barracks (10 co) Maj Gen Hon. John Hope of Foot Ramsay HQ: Portsmouth Fort Cumberland (8 co) 8th Royal Veteran Battalion 493 Lt Col Robert Walker Southsea Castle and adjacent forts (2 co) Fort Monckton (6 co) 1st Garrison Battalion 595 Lt Col John Crougey Forton Barracks (4 co) Depot Companies/King’s German 163 Porchester Barracks Artillery 5th Line Battalion, King’s German Legion 212 Porchester Barracks (4 co) Depot Company, King’s German Legion 70 Capt Charles Pringgle Porchester Barracks King’s Own Staffordshire Regiment of 1300 Lt Col Edward Disbrowe Portsea Barracks (10 co) Militia North Hampshire Regiment of Militia 514 Lt Col Bromley Frith Portsmouth Barracks (8 co) 2/5th (or the Northumberland) Regiment 34 Lt Col John McKenzie Colewort Barracks (det) of Foot 2/83rd Regiment of Foot 33 Lt Col Alexander Gordon Colewort Barracks (det) Detachments 39 Hilsea Recruiting 2/9th (or the East Norfolk) Regiment of 39 Lt Col Gideon Shairpe Sherborne Foot Volunteers superintended Dorset yeoman cavalry 339 by Brig Gen John Michell IFO: Lt Col Henry Bisshopp Salisbury Plain HQ: Salisbury Plain Hampshire yeoman cavalry 313
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Volunteers superintended Hampshire yeoman cavalry 200 by Brig Gen John Slade IFO: Lt Col Henry Bisshopp Salisbury Plain HQ: Salisbury Plain Wiltshire yeoman cavalry 393 Volunteers superintended by Maj Gen George IFO: Lt Col William Wiltshire volunteer infantry 1997 Winchester Warde Brereton HQ: Winchester Volunteers superintended Hampshire volunteer infantry 2113 by Brig Gen George IFO: Lt Col Francis Portsmouth Porter Mannooch Hampshire volunteer artillery 591 HQ: Portsmouth Volunteers superintended by Brig Gen William Dorset, Wiltshire & Hampshire volunteer 2654 IFO: Lt Col Seymour Cranborne Munro infantry HQ: Cranborne Volunteers superintended by Brig Gen Henry Hampshire volunteer infantry 2452 IFO: Lt Col George Duke Bishop’s Waltham Mordaunt Clavering HQ: Bishop’s Waltham Artillery – 1064, Cavalry – 2024, Infantry – 4806, Militia – 5414, Volunteers – 11053, TOTAL = 24361
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ISLE OF WIGHT DISTRICT Covered Isle of Wight GOC: Maj Gen Earl of Cavan HQ: Sandown GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigades of Royal Artillery detachment 24 Sandown Barracks (det) Maj Gen John Whitelocke 9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons HQ: Sandown 19 Newport (det) detachment 2/56th (or the West Essex) Regiment of 422 Lt Col Henry S Keating Sandown Barracks (10 co) Foot Cavalry detachment 33 Parkhurst Barracks Royal Waggon Train detachment 6 Parkhurst Barracks Recruiting Depot 1635 Lt Col John James Barlow Parkhurst Barracks East India Company Depot 154 Parkhurst Barracks West Essex Regiment of Militia 659 Lt Col George Duckett Freshwater Barracks (8 co) Royal Merionethshire Regiment of Militia 148 Maj Richard Hughes Lloyd Sandown Barracks (3 co) 3rd Hampshire (Isle of Wight) Regiment of 71 Capt John Delgarno Grange Chine Barracks Militia Foreign Troop Depot Lt Col Howard Foreign Troop Depot 335 Lt Col Howard Lymington HQ: Lymington Volunteers superintended Isle of Wight yeoman cavalry 74 by Maj Gen John IFO: unknown Sandown Whitelocke Isle of Wight volunteer infantry 1822 HQ: Sandown Artillery – 24, Cavalry – 52, Infantry – 2552, Militia – 873, Volunteers – 1896, TOTAL = 5397
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WESTERN DISTRICT Covered Devonshire, Cornwall & Somerset, excluding places in the vicinity of Bristol GOC: Lt Gen John Graves Simcoe HQ: Exeter GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Plymouth Garrison of Brome’s Company/3rd Battalion, Royal Capt Joseph Brome Woodbury Camp Lt Gen Richard England Regiment of Artillery 282 Lt Gen Alexander Mercer Scott’s Company/4th Battalion, Royal Maj Gen John Calcraft Capt William Scott Plymouth Dock Barracks Regiment of Artillery HQ: Plymouth Dock Royal Military Artificers 96 Plymouth Dock Barracks Plymouth Dock Barracks (8 co) 2nd Royal Veteran Battalion 572 Lt Col George Vigoureux Scilly Is. Barracks (1 co) St Nicholas Is. Barracks (1 co) Plymouth Dock Barracks (10 1st Wiltshire Regiment of Militia 957 Lt Col Francis Warneford co) Makers Heights Barracks (det) Plymouth Dock Barracks (3 co) Royal Montgomeryshire Regiment of Militia 308 Maj John Davies Pendennis Castle & Berryhead (1 co) Plymouth Dock Barracks (10 Royal Cornwall Regiment of Militia 670 Lt Col. Hon. William Eliot co) Plymouth Dock Barracks (8 co) East Devonshire Regiment of Militia 664 Lt Col Edmund Bastard Tealm Redoubt (det) 2/32nd (or the Cornwall) Regiment of Foot 62 Lt Col Manley Power Launceston Garrison of Pendennis Castle 3rd Garrison Battalion 171 Lt Col William Needham Pendennis Castle (10 co) Brig Gen James Dunlop HQ: Falmouth
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Infantry Brigade of Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia 363 Lt Col Richard Gilpin Lympstone Camp Lt Gen Charles Lennox Worcestershire Regiment of Militia 720 Lt Col Thomas Clutton Lympstone Camp Maj Gen Andrew Cowell HQ: Lympstone Camp 3rd Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia 957 Lt Col John Sedgwick Lympstone Camp North Devonshire Regiment of Militia 665 Lt Col Charles Hayne Lympstone Camp Cavalry Brigade Exeter Barracks (6 tp) (vacant) Truro Barracks (2 tp) 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards 620 Lt Col Alexander J Goldie HQ: Exeter Modbury (1 tp) Topshaw & Exmouth (1 tp) Volunteers superintended Devon yeoman cavalry 1105 by Brig Gen James IFO: Lt Col P I Taylor Thewles and Brig Gen Devon volunteer infantry 10016 IFO: Lt Col Nathaniel Exeter Edward Popham Devon volunteer artillery 1234 Kirkman Sidmouth HQ: Exeter IFO: Lt Col Ralph Barnes and Dorset yeoman cavalry 34 Brig Gen Robert Shaw HQ: Dawlish Cornwall yeoman cavalry 267 IFO: Lt Col John Enys and IFO: Lt Col John Baillie Brig Gen William Cornwall volunteer infantry 2869 Dawlish IFO: Lt Col Nathaniel Thomas Kirkman HQ: Sidmouth Cornwall volunteer artillery 915 Volunteers superintended Somerset yeoman cavalry 528 by Brig Gen Walter Cliffe IFO: Lt Col William Bain Taunton HQ: Taunton Somerset volunteer infantry 2707 Artillery – 378, Cavalry – 620, Infantry – 805, Militia – 5304, Volunteers – 19765, TOTAL = 26872
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SEVERN DISTRICT Covered Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Monmouthshire, South Wales, and the vicinity of Bristol GOC: Lt Gen Banastre Tarleton HQ: Bath GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigade of Royal Artillery detachment 7 Bristol Maj Gen Josiah Lt Col William Owen Champagne Royal Carmarthen Regiment of Militia 508 Bristol (8 co) Brigstocke HQ: Bristol South Devonshire Regiment of Militia 575 Lt Col William Elford, Bt. Bristol (10 co) Royal Gloucestershire (North) Regiment of 610 Lt Col Henry Howard Bristol (10 co) Militia Infantry Brigade of Milford Barracks & town (1 co) Maj Gen Isaac Gascoyne Rutlandshire Regiment of Militia 107 Maj Michael Pierrepoint Hubberstone Barracks & town HQ: Haverfordwest (1 co) 2/50th (or the West Kent) Regiment of 124 Lt Col Charles Stewart Cirencester (10 co) Foot Infantry Brigade of Brig Gen Richard Lt Col George Augustus 2/96th Regiment of Foot 138 Gloucester (10 co) Bingham Leathes HQ: Worcester Infantry Brigade of Lt Col Charles Bulkeley Trowbridge Barracks & town Brig Gen Francis Moore 2/89th Regiment of Foot 245 Egerton (10 co) HQ: Bath Volunteers superintended Somerset yeoman cavalry 218 by Brig Gen Francis Moore Somerset volunteer infantry 2484 IFO: Lt Col Boyle Travers Bath HQ: Bath Wiltshire volunteer infantry 824 Volunteers superintended Gloucestershire yeoman cavalry 473 by Maj Gen Josiah IFO: Lt Col Thomas Probyn Bristol Champagne Gloucestershire volunteer infantry 4453 HQ: Bristol
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Volunteers superintended Worcestershire yeoman cavalry 264 IFO: Lt Col Alexander by Brig Gen Richard Worcestershire volunteer infantry 2391 Houston Bingham Worcester HQ: Worcester Herefordshire yeoman cavalry 87 IFO: Lt Col Henry Bromley Herefordshire volunteer infantry 2211 Volunteer superintended Pembrokeshire yeoman cavalry 296 by Maj Gen Isaac Gascoyne Pembrokeshire volunteer infantry 1705 HQ: Haverfordwest Carmarthenshire yeoman cavalry 100 IFO: Lt Col William Stewart Carmarthenshire volunteer infantry 1611 Cardiganshire volunteer infantry 1204 Haverfordwest Glamorganshire volunteer infantry 2133 IFO: Lt Col John Sladden Monmouthshire yeoman cavalry 86 Monmouthshire volunteer infantry 1245 IFO: Lt Col Henry Bromley Radnorshire volunteer infantry 166 Breconshire volunteer infantry 792 Artillery – 7, Cavalry – 0, Infantry – 507, Militia – 1800, Volunteers – 22927, TOTAL = 25241
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NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Covered Cheshire, Shropshire, Lancashire, North Wales, & Isle of Man GOC: Lt Gen HRH Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, K.G. HQ: Liverpool GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Infantry Brigade of 2/23rd Regiment of Foot (or Royal Welsh Maj Gen Gerritt Fisher 84 Lt Col Evan Jones Wrexham Fuzileers HQ: Wrexham Infantry Brigade of 2/6th (or the 1st Warwickshire) Regiment Lt Col W Frederick Liverpool Barracks & town (10 Brig Gen George Benson 592 of Foot Macbean co) HQ: Liverpool Infantry Brigade of 2/31st (or the Huntingdonshire) Regiment Lt Col William Howe Brig Gen Peter Heron 217 Chester (10 co) of Foot Campbell HQ: Chester Infantry Brigade of Brig Gen Williams 1st (or Royal) Regiment of Dragoons 125 Manchester Barracks (2 tp) HQ: Shrewsbury Volunteers superintended IFO: Lt Col Maxwell Lancashire yeoman cavalry 158 by Brig Gen William IFO: Lt Col William Sleigh Preston Bulwer IFO: Lt Col William Lancashire volunteer infantry 7435 HQ: Preston Tomlinson Volunteers superintended Cheshire yeoman cavalry 312 by Brig Gen Peter Heron IFO: Lt Col Dod Chester HQ: Chester Cheshire volunteer infantry 2212 Volunteers superintended Shropshire yeoman cavalry 591 by Brig Gen Henry IFO: Lt Col Henry Chaytor Shrewsbury Williams Shropshire volunteer infantry 3682 HQ: Shrewsbury Volunteers superintended Flintshire yeoman cavalry 139 by Brig Gen Peter Heron IFO: Lt Col Dod Chester HQ: Chester Flintshire volunteer infantry 1403
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Volunteers superintended Denbighshire yeoman cavalry 86 IFO: Lt Col William by Maj Gen Gerritt Fisher Denbighshire volunteer infantry 1532 Hutchinson HQ: Wrexham Montgomeryshire yeoman cavalry 88 Montgomeryshire volunteer infantry 1181 IFO: Lt Col Peppard Knight Wrexham Merionethshire volunteer infantry 645 Caernarvonshire volunteer infantry 778 IFO: Lt Col William Anglesea volunteer infantry 787 Hutchinson Artillery – 0, Cavalry – 125, Infantry – 893, Militia – 0, Volunteers – 6639, TOTAL = 7657
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NORTH INLAND DISTRICT Covered Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire & Rutlandshire GOC: Lt Gen Henry Pigot HQ: Lichfield GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Infantry Brigade of 2/24th (or the 2nd Warwickshire) 201 Lt Col Randolph Marriott Stratford-on-Avon (10 co) Brig Gen Alexander Regiment of Foot Wood 2/38th (or the 1st Staffordshire) Regiment Lt Col Hon. Charles John HQ: Lichfield 117 Lichfield (10 co) of Foot Greville Infantry Brigade of 2/59th (or the 2nd Nottinghamshire) Maj Gen Thomas Roberts 86 Lt Col Charles Fane Ashbourne Regiment of Foot HQ: Derby Brigade of 3rd (or King’s Own) Regiment of Nottingham Barracks (2 tp) 258 Maj Charles Pye Brig Gen Sir John Delves Dragoons Birmingham Barracks (2 tp) Broughton, Bt. 2/45th (or the Nottinghamshire) Regiment HQ: Rothley 171 Lt Col Hon. John Meade Nottingham (10 co) of Foot Volunteers superintended Staffordshire yeoman cavalry 313 IFO: Lt Col John Bromhead by Brig Gen James IFO: Lt Col George Allen Erskine Staffordshire volunteer cavalry 3521 Madden HQ: Beaudesert Derbyshire yeoman cavalry 170 IFO: Lt Col Walker IFO: Lt Col George Allen Derbyshire volunteer infantry 3234 Madden Warwickshire yeoman cavalry 255 IFO: Lt Col John Gordon IFO: Lt Col George Allen Beaudesert Warwickshire volunteer infantry 2322 Madden Nottinghamshire yeoman cavalry 430 IFO: Lt Col John Daniel Kane Nottinghamshire volunteer infantry 2411 IFO: Lt Col George Allen Madden Leicestershire yeoman cavalry 319 IFO: Lt Col John Gordon IFO: Lt Col John Daniel Leicestershire volunteer infantry 2202 Kane
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Volunteers superintended Rutlandshire yeoman cavalry 71 IFO: Lt Col John Daniel by Brig Gen James Kane Erskine Rutlandshire volunteer infantry 176 IFO: Lt Col George Allen Beaudesert HQ: Beaudesert Madden Worcestershire volunteer infantry 281 IFO: Lt Col John Gordon Artillery – 0, Cavalry – 258, Infantry – 575, Militia – 0, Volunteers – 15705, TOTAL = 16538
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SOUTH INLAND DISTRICT Covered Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire GOC: Lt Gen Francis Edward Gwyn HQ: King’s Mews GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS KGL Cavalry Brigade 2nd Dragoons, King’s German Legion 62 Col Baron Veltheim Northampton Barracks & town still forming 2nd Light Dragoons, King’s German HQ: Coventry 79 Maj Johann, Baron Bulow Northampton Barracks & town Legion 2/14th (or the Bedfordshire) Regiment of Recruiting 212 Lt Col Hon. William Bligh Bedford (10 co) Foot Volunteers superintended Oxfordshire yeoman cavalry 395 by Maj Gen George Henry Vansittart IFO: Lt Col Hugh Maxwell Oxford HQ: Oxford Oxfordshire volunteer infantry 1949 Volunteers superintended Bedfordshire yeoman cavalry 95 by Maj Gen Lord IFO: Col Sir Montagu Southampton and Brig Burgoyne, Bt. Bedford Gen Denzil Onslow IFO: Lt Col Aubrey Bedfordshire volunteer infantry 1099 HQ: Bedford Volunteers superintended by Brig Gen Wardle and Northamptonshire yeoman cavalry 584 IFO: Lt Col Andrew Corbett Brig Gen Gonville Northampton Bromhead IFO: Lt Col Francis Delaval HQ: Northampton Northamptonshire volunteer infantry 1780
Volunteers superintended IFO: Col Sir Montagu by Maj Gen Hon. Vere Buckinghamshire volunteer infantry 744 Burgoyne, Bt. Aylesbury Poulett IFO: Lt Col Aubrey HQ: Aylesbury Artillery – 0, Cavalry – 141, Infantry – 212, Militia – 0, Volunteers – 6646, TOTAL = 6999
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LONDON DISTRICT London and Westminster, and their liberties, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Rotherhithe, and those parts of Middlesex and Surrey within the bills of mortality GOC: Gen Charles Stanhope, Earl of Harrington HQ: Stable-yard, St James GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Household Brigades of Royal Artillery detachment 56 Tower of London Lt Gen Harry Burrard Maj Gen Hon. John Leslie 1st Regiment of Life Guards 375 Lt Col Terence O’Loughlin Hyde Park Barracks (6 tp) HQ: London Lt Col Francis Slater 2nd Regiment of Life Guards 375 King Street Barracks (6 tp) Rebow Capt & Lt Col Frederick Knightsbridge Barracks & 2/1st Regiment of Foot Guards 1065 Charles White Upper Westminster (10 co) Portman Street Barracks & 2/Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 1160 Capt & Lt Col Henry Bayly Holborn (10 co) Capt & Lt Col Hon. 2/3rd Regiment of Foot Guards 997 Lower Westminster (10 co) Edward Stopford Tower of London (8 co) 7th Royal Veteran Battalion 863 Lt Col John Wilbar Cooke Whitechapel (2 co) Infantry Brigade of 2nd Royal Tower Hamlets Regiment of 556 Lt Col John Wilson Mile End (8 co) Maj Gen Thomas Militia Grosvenor Royal London (West) Regiment of Militia 579 Lt Col Edward Wigan Clapham Common (8 co) HQ: London Volunteers superintended by Brig Gen Hon. London yeoman cavalry 278 IFO: Lt Col Richard Marton London William Lumley HQ: London
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Volunteers superintended IFO: Lt Col George Mercer by IFO: Lt Col John Maj Gen Thomas London volunteer infantry 5012 Addenbrooke London Grosvenor IFO: Lt Col Richard Marton Maj Gen William Thorton IFO: Lt Col John Jenkinson Maj Gen Arthur Whetham Maj Gen Earl of Banbury Westminster yeoman cavalry 37 IFO: Lt Col Richard Marton London Brig Gen Tomkinson Hilgrove Turner Brig Gen Francis IFO: Lt Col George Mercer Carruthers IFO: Lt Col John HQ: London Westminster volunteer infantry 1840 Addenbrooke London IFO: Lt Col Richard Marton IFO: Lt Col John Jenkinson Artillery – 56, Cavalry – 750, Infantry – 4035, Militia – 1129, Volunteers – 7167, TOTAL = 13137
Note: The returns of Volunteers from early 1806 includes both London and Home districts as a single district (‘Home’) with volunteer returns for the two considerably intermixed. The above therefore includes volunteer numbers for the London and Westminster volunteers only, whilst the Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Berkshire returns have been included in the following Home district, even though some of those volunteers served in the London district proper.
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HOME DISTRICT Covered Middlesex and Surrey, exclusive of the London District, and places coming within any plan for the immediate defence of the Capital; Kent to the River Cray and Holwood Hill inclusive; Hertfordshire and Berkshire GOC: Lt Gen HRH Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, K.G. HQ: St James Palace GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Artillery at the Royal A Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Capt George Augustus Woolwich Arsenal Regiment of Artillery Wood Maj Gen William Twiss F Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal HQ: Woolwich Capt Alexander Duncan Woolwich Regiment of Artillery H Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal 440 Capt Alexander Macdonald Woolwich Regiment of Artillery L Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Capt Nathaniel Foy M Troop/ Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Capt Hon. Herbert W Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Gardiner Tobin’s Company/1st Battalion, Royal Capt Joseph W Tobin Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Farrington’s Company/1st Battalion, Capt H M Farrington Woolwich Royal Regiment of Artillery Owen’s Company/5th Battalion, Royal Capt Humphrey Owen Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Bingham’s Company/6th Battalion, Royal Capt Charles C Bingham Woolwich Regiment of Artillery 2480 Crawford’s Company/6th Battalion, Royal Capt George Crawford Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Curry’s Company/8th Battalion, Royal Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Capt Edmund Curry Fraser’s Company/8th Battalion, Royal Capt Hugh Fraser Woolwich Regiment of Artillery Raynsford’s Company/8th Battalion, Capt R T Raynsford Woolwich Royal Regiment of Artillery
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Artillery at the Royal Drummond’s Company/8th Battalion, Capt Percy Drummond Woolwich Arsenal Royal Regiment of Artillery Maj Gen William Twiss (late) Hosmer’s Company, Invalid Woolwich HQ: Woolwich Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery (late) Gostling’s Company, Invalid Woolwich Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery (late) Whitmore’s Company, Invalid Woolwich Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery Reid’s Company, Invalid Battalion, Royal Capt John Reid Woolwich Regiment of Artillery (late) Wilson’s Company, Invalid Woolwich Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery (late) Houghton’s Company, Invalid Woolwich Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery Standish’s Company, Invalid Battalion, Capt David Standish Woolwich Royal Regiment of Artillery Huntingdonshire Regiment of Militia 177 Capt Henry Cipriani Woolwich Brigade of Windsor Barracks (4 tp) Maj Gen Sir George Windsor (2 tp) Royal Regiment of Horse Guards 371 Lt Col John Dorrien James Ludlow Staines (1 tp) HQ: London Egham (1 tp) Royal Waggon Train 293 Croydon Barracks (6 co) 2/62nd (or the Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot 152 Lt Col William Doyle Hungerford (10 co) 1st Royal Tower Hamlets Regiment of Deptford (8 co) 495 Lt Col Daniel Williams, Kt. Militia Peckham (det) Greenwich (7 co) Lt Col John Thacker Royal London (East) Regiment of Militia 588 Lewisham (1 co) Jennings Woolwich (1 co)
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Cavalry Brigade of Guildford Barracks & town (9 Lt Col Hon. Thomas Maj Gen St Leger 9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons 637 tp) Mahon HQ: London Godalming (1 tp) 12th (or the Prince of Wales’s) Regiment Romford Barracks (6 tp) 640 of (Light) Dragoons Romford (2 tp) Hounslow Barracks (4 tp) Hampton Court (2 tp) 14th (or the Duchess of York's Own) Kensington Barracks (1 tp) 833 Lt Col Samuel Hawker Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Richmond (1 tp) Chertsey (1 tp) Twickenham (1 tp) Volunteers under Middlesex yeoman cavalry 18 IFO: Lt Col Richard Marton superintendence of Kent yeoman cavalry 76 IFO: Lt Col Joseph Hardy Brig Gen Tomkinson Hilgrove Turner IFO: Lt Col John Jenkinson London IFO: Lt Col James K HQ: London Middlesex volunteer infantry 6717 Dalrymple IFO: Lt Col Henry Harnage Volunteers under superintendence of Surrey yeoman cavalry 347 IFO: Lt Col George Jackson Brig Gen John Prince Windsor IFO: Lt Col Sir Nathaniel HQ: Windsor Berkshire yeoman cavalry 239 Duckinfield, Bt.
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Volunteers under IFO: Lt Col Addenbrooke superintendence of Brig Surrey volunteer infantry 3840 IFO: Lt Col George Jackson Gen Anthony Lewis IFO: Lt Col Thomas Hardy London Layard Kent volunteer infantry 1132 IFO: Lt Col Thomas Hardy HQ: London Volunteers under Essex yeoman cavalry 57 superintendence of Essex volunteer infantry 522 Maj Gen Lord Charles Somerset Hertfordshire yeoman cavalry 298 IFO: Lt Col Josiah Cottin Hertford HQ: Hertford Hertfordshire volunteer infantry 1755 Hertfordshire volunteer artillery 46 Volunteers under superintendence of IFO: Lt Col Sir Nathaniel Brig Gen Albert Berkshire volunteer infantry 1979 Reading Duckinfield, Bt. Gledstanes HQ: Reading Artillery – 3097, Cavalry – 2774, Infantry – 152, Militia – 1224, Volunteers – 17026, TOTAL = 24273
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JERSEY DISTRICT Covered Jersey GOC: Lt Gen Andrew Gordon HQ: St Heliers GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigades of Wood’s Company, Invalid Battalion, 51 Capt Edward Wood Elizabeth Castle Brig Gen William Royal Regiment of Artillery Johnstone (absent) Salmon’s Company/6th Battalion, Royal HQ: St Heliers 102 Capt George Salmon St Heliers Regiment of Artillery 2/18th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot 997 Lt Col Richard O’Dogherty Grouville Bay (10 co) 2/57th (or the West Middlesex) Regiment 245 Lt Col Duncan Macdonald St Aubin’s Bay (10 co) of Foot 2/58th (or the Rutlandshire) Regiment of 656 Lt Col Thomas Fitzgerald St Heliers (10 co) Foot 2/69th (or the South Lincolnshire) 537 Lt Col Thomas Browne St Heliers (10 co) Regiment of Foot 99th Regiment of Foot 769 Lt Col John Taylor St Owen’s Bay (10 co) 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion 595 Lt Col John West Elizabeth Castle (10 co) Artillery – 153, Cavalry – 0, Infantry – 3799, Militia – 0, TOTAL = 3952
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GUERNSEY DISTRICT Covered Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm GOC: Lt Gen Sir John Doyle HQ: St Peter Port GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigades of Wilks’s Company, Invalid Battalion, 114 Capt John Wilks Fort George Brig Gen William Cockell Royal Regiment of Artillery HQ: St Peter Port Royal Military Artificers 31 Fort George 2/39th (or the East Middlesex) Regiment of 755 Lt Col George Wilson Delancey (10 co) Foot 2/44th (or the East Essex) Regiment of 561 Lt Col Robert Garden Richmond (10 co) Foot 2/61st (or the South Gloucestershire) Lt Col John Stratford 473 Fort George (10 co) Regiment of Foot Saunders 2/67th (or the South Hampshire) Regiment Lt Col William Augustus 400 Vale Castle (10 co) of Foot Prevost 1/87th (or Prince of Wales’ Own Irish) Col William Carlyon 684 Amherst (10 co) Regiment of Foot Hughes Castle Cornet (6 co) 5th Royal Veteran Battalion 689 Lt Col William Swinburne Alderney (4 co) 2/3rd (or East Kent) Regt. of Foot, or the 236 Lt Col Henry Cuyler Alderney (10 co) Buffs Artillery – 145, Cavalry – 0, Infantry – 3758, Militia – 0, TOTAL = 3903
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NORTH BRITAIN Covered Scotland GOC: Gen Francis Hastings, Earl of Moira HQ: Edinburgh 2IC: Lt Gen Simon Fraser
NORTH BRITAIN, SOUTHERN DISTRICT Covered West, Mid and East Lothians, Berwick, Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh and Dumfries GOC: Lt Gen James St Clair-Erskine, Bt., Earl of Roslyn HQ: Musselburgh GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Reserve Forster’s Company/1st Battalion, Royal Capt George Forster Leith Camp HQ: Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery 230 Hawker’s Company/4th Battalion, Royal Capt James Hawker Haddington Barracks Regiment of Artillery Leith Barracks (1 co) Lt Col Stewart Murray Musselburgh Barracks (1 co) Kirkudbright & Wigton Regiment of Militia 309 Fullarton Haddington Barracks (1 co) Dunbar Barracks (1 co) Piershill Barracks (6 tp) 7th (or Princess Royal's) Regiment of Lt Col Hon. Stephen Dunbar Barracks (1 tp) 558 Dragoon Guards Mahon Musselburgh Barracks (1 tp) Haddington Barracks (1 tp) 2/88th Regiment of Foot (or Connaught Dumfries (10 co) 278 Lt Col Alexander Wallace Rangers) Annam (det) Infantry Brigade of Berwickshire, Haddington, Linlithgow & Lt Col George Warrender, 523 Musselburgh Barracks (7 co) Lt Col John Wauchope Peebles Regiment of Militia Bt. HQ: Musselburgh Forfarshire & Kincardine Regiment of Musselburgh, Fisherwick & 918 Lt Col Robert W Duff Militia Inveresk (10 co) Dalkeith Barracks & town (10 Edinburgh Regiment of Militia 770 Lt Col John Wauchope co). Dumfriesshire, Roxborough & Selkirk Musselburgh Barracks (10 co) 613 Lt Col Henry, Lord Montagu Regiment of Militia Pennywick (det)
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Infantry Brigade of 2/79th Regiment of Foot (or Cameron Dunbar Barracks (10 co) 729 Lt Col Phillips Cameron Brig Gen Earl Dalhousie Highlanders) Eyemouth (det) HQ: Haddington Royal Westmoreland Regiment of Militia 290 Lt Col Edward Knubley Port Seton Barracks (4 co) 2nd Yorkshire (West Riding) Regiment of 971 Maj Kirkby Torre Haddington Barracks (10 co) Militia Garrison of Edinburgh Edinburgh Castle (10 co) 2/27th (or Enniskillen) Regiment of Foot 748 Lt Col Lemuel Warren Castle Leith (det) Brig Gen Thomas Scott Edinburgh Castle (8 co) Lt Col William Osborn Brig Gen Samuel Graham 9th Royal Veteran Battalion 381 Stirling Castle (1 co) Hamilton HQ: Edinburgh Castle Dumbarton Castle (1 co) Invernesshire, Banff, Elgin & Nairn George Street Barracks, 798 Lt Col James Duff Regiment of Militia Edinburgh (10 co) Argyllshire & Bute Regiment of Militia 524 Lt Col Sir John Campbell Edinburgh Castle (7 co) Lt Col William, Earl of Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia 668 Edinburgh Castle (10 co) Erroll Volunteers under Edinburgh yeoman cavalry 183 superintendence of Edinburgh volunteer infantry 4273 IFO: Lt Col George Brig Gen Samuel Graham Edinburgh HQ: Edinburgh Linlithgow yeoman cavalry 61 Callender Linlithgow volunteer infantry 559 Volunteers under Haddington yeoman cavalry 176 superintendence of Haddington volunteer infantry 661 IFO: Lt Col Sir James Baird, Brig Gen Alexander Haddington Graham Stirling Berwick yeoman cavalry 134 Bt. HQ: Haddington Berwick volunteer infantry 1060 Volunteers under Roxburgh yeoman cavalry 85 superintendence of Roxburgh volunteer infantry 750 Brig Gen William IFO: Col McMurdo Musselburgh Dickson Selkirk yeoman cavalry 18 HQ: Musselburgh Selkirk volunteer infantry 81
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Volunteers under Dumfries yeoman cavalry 110 superintendence of Dumfries volunteer infantry 1387 Brig Gen William IFO: Lt Col William Douglas Musselburgh Dickson Peebles yeoman cavalry 40 HQ: Musselburgh Peebles volunteer infantry 572 Artillery – 230, Cavalry – 558, Infantry – 2136, Militia – 6384, Volunteers – 9578, TOTAL = 18886
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NORTH BRITAIN, WESTERN DISTRICT Covered Argyle, Ayr, Bute, Renfrew, Lanark, Wigton and Kirkcudbright GOC: Maj Gen William Wemyss HQ: Glasgow GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigade of 7th (or Princess Royal's) Regiment of 63 Hamilton (1 tp) Maj Gen William Dragoon Guards Wemyss Lt Col Lord George 2/71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot 259 Glasgow Barracks (10 co) HQ: Glasgow Beresford East Essex Regiment of Militia 457 Lt Col Francis Hale Rigby Glasgow Barracks (8 co) Ayr Barracks (10 co) 2/21st Regiment of Foot (or Royal North Greenock Port (det) 225 Lt Col William Paterson British Fuzileers) Glasgow (det) Port Patrick Barracks (det) Brigade of Wigton Yeoman cavalry 67 Brig Gen John McKenzie Wigton Volunteer infantry 591 HQ: Ayr IFO: Lt Col Andrew Wight Kirkcudbright yeoman cavalry 127 Kirkcudbright volunteer infantry 657 Ayr Ayr yeoman cavalry 140 Ayr volunteer infantry 2396 IFO: Lt Col Andrew Gillon Bute volunteer infantry 145 Brigade of Argyll volunteer infantry 2106 (vacant) IFO: Col Baillie Renfrew volunteer infantry 2398 HQ: Glasgow Glasgow Lanark yeoman cavalry 48 IFO: Lt Col Charles Parke Lanark volunteer infantry 4280 Artillery – 0, Cavalry – 63, Infantry – 484, Militia – 457, Volunteers – 12955, TOTAL = 13959
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NORTH BRITAIN, CENTRE DISTRICT Covered Angus, Perth, Fife, Clackmannan, Stirling, Dumbarton and Kinross GOC: Maj Gen Donald McDonald HQ: Dundee GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigade of 3/1st (or the Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot 211 Lt Col William Danser Stirling Castle (10 co) Brig Gen Donald Lt Col Frederick McDonald 4/1st (or the Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot 205 Stirling Castle (10 co) Hardyman HQ: Dundee 9th Royal Veteran Battalion 93 Stirling Castle (2 co) Stirlingshire, Dumbarton, Clackmannan & Lt Col William Cunningham 485 Dundee Barracks (7 co) Kinross Regiment of Militia Graham Brigade of Invalid Company, Royal Artillery 15 Perth Barracks Brig Gen William detachment Robertson Perth Barracks (10 co) 2/91st Regiment of Foot 183 Lt Col Alexander Loraine HQ: Perth Leith (det) Volunteers under Stirling yeoman cavalry 165 superintendence of Stirling volunteer infantry 945 Brig Gen William IFO: Lt Col John Murray Robertson Dumbarton yeoman cavalry 61 HQ: Perth Dumbarton volunteer infantry 476 Perth Perth yeoman cavalry 86 Perth Volunteer infantry 2712 IFO: Lt Col Smyth Clackmannan yeoman cavalry 21 Clackmannan volunteer infantry 174 Volunteers under Angus Yeoman cavalry 29 superintendence of Angus volunteer infantry 2499 Brig Gen Sir William Erskine Fife yeoman cavalry 180 IFO: Lt Col Robert Douglas Cupar HQ: Cupar Fife volunteer infantry 2067 Kinross volunteer infantry 133
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Artillery – 15, Cavalry – 0, Infantry – 692, Militia – 485, Volunteers – 9548, TOTAL = 10740
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NORTH BRITAIN, NORTHERN DISTRICT Covered Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Nairn, Inverness, Ross, Cromarty, Caithness and Sutherland GOC: Maj Gen George Gordon, Marquis of Huntly HQ: Aberdeen GENERAL OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS OR CORPS EFFECTIVES CO OR IFO (HQ) QUARTERS Brigade of Royal Artillery detachment 6 Aberdeen Brig Gen John Gordon Cuming 2/72nd ( Highland) Regiment of Foot 140 Lt Col Andrew Hay Peterhead (10 co) HQ: Banff East Suffolk Regiment of Militia 560 Lt Col John White Aberdeen Barracks (8 co) Brigade of Fort George (8 co) Brig Gen John Randoll Fort Charlotte (2 co) 6th Royal Veteran Battalion 619 Lt Col Hon. William Grey McKenzie Fort Augustus (det) HQ: Inverness Fort William (det) Burslem’s Company, Invalid Battalion, 102 Capt M W Burslem Fort George Royal Regiment of Artillery Volunteers under Kincardine volunteer infantry 771 superintendence of IFO: Lt Col James Stewart Aberdeen volunteer infantry 2689 Brig Gen John Gordon Cuming Banff volunteer infantry 911 Banff HQ: Banff Elgin volunteer infantry 675 IFO: Lt Col Robinson Nairn volunteer infantry 300 Volunteers under Ross (Mainland) volunteer infantry 1514 superintendence of Cromarty volunteer infantry Brig Gen John Randoll 327 IFO: Lt Col John Ross McKenzie Inverness (Mainland) volunteer infantry 1893 HQ: Inverness Caithness volunteer infantry 1282 IFO: Lt Col James Inverness Sutherland volunteer infantry 1104 Williamson Inverness (Islands) volunteer infantry 1429 IFO: Lt Col McDonald Ross (Island) volunteer infantry 159 Artillery – 108, Cavalry – 0, Infantry – 759, Militia – 560, Volunteers – 13053, TOTAL = 14481
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