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Regiments of Foot, (Infantry of the Line) are line infantry regiments part of the army.[2] [3]1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot - 4 Battalions from 1804-1816, then 3 until 1817 then 2
By 1792, the infantry of the British army had grown to 135 regiments. In addition, numerous French émigrés and foreign regiments were serving in Britain, so that the militia and volunteer forces were also increased accordingly. The regular militia forces were recruited by ballot, and each county had to provide its own contingent.
Formed part of the Army of Occupation, in France, following the Waterloo campaign [22] 4th Division 11 April 1815: 1815 Southern Netherlands, France Following the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, the British military in France was reorganised into three divisions on 30 November 1815. The remaining forces, including the 4th Division, were ...
Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments [22] Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments [23] [24] Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments [25] Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments [26] Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions [27] Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment [28] Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 ...
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [ 1 ]
This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers Reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell Reforms. It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s .
In June 1789, the regiment was formed in England as a permanent unit to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. [1] The regiment began arriving as guards on the Second Fleet in 1790. The regiment, led by Major Francis Grose, consisted of three companies, numbering about 300 men
The Greenhill Napoleonic wars data book. London Mechanicsburg, PA: Greenhill Books Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-276-7. OCLC 37616149. Smith, Digby (2006). An illustrated encyclopedia of uniforms of the Napoleonic wars : an expert, in-depth reference to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1792-1815. London ...