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  32nd Foot; First Battalion, 305, 337n1

  33rd Foot, 21, 49, 135–136, 156, 164, 167–168, 254

  34th Foot, 14; First Battalion, 14; Second Battalion, 9, 14, 90

  35th Foot; Second Battalion, 162–164

  36th Foot, 134, 136; First Battalion, 16, 305

  37th Foot, 158; First Battalion, 115, 158, 319n62; Second Battalion, 158, 162–164, 168, 172

  38th Foot; First Battalion, 104, 227, 305; Second Battalion, 145

  39th Foot, 47, 171; First Battalion, 104; Second Battalion, 100, 173, 236

  40th Foot, 91; First Battalion, 65, 69–73, 90–94, 177, 222, 234, 247, 256–257; Second Battalion, 91–92

  41st Foot, 135–136; First Battalion, 100; Second Battalion, 100, 102

  42nd Highlanders, 47, 314n8, 315n47; First Battalion, 56–57, 104, 130, 305, 326n17; Second Battalion, 145, 236

  43rd Light Infantry, 48, 58–59, 129, 297; First Battalion, 26, 89, 227, 256, 305; Second Battalion, 89, 91, 184, 227–228, 234–235, 305, 330n41

  44th Foot; Second Battalion, 121, 144, 155–156, 163, 175, 211

  45th Foot; First Battalion, 16, 150, 188, 214

  46th Foot, 98

  47th Foot; Second Battalion, 120–122

  48th Foot, 102, 104, 136, 144; First Battalion, 63, 119; Second Battalion, 100

  50th Foot, 136, 296; First Battalion, 305

  51st Light Infantry, 48, 58, 63, 81, 98, 149, 305, 326n21, 331n76

  52nd Light Infantry, 48, 51, 57, 129, 253; First Battalion, 26, 48, 61, 89, 106, 163, 227, 266, 306, 337n1; Second Battalion, 12, 89, 104, 106, 162–163, 227–228, 306

  53rd Foot, 135–136; Second Battalion, 78, 147–148, 155, 209, 223, 247, 251, 253

  54th Foot, 156

  55th Foot, 163

  56th Foot, 11, 158; Second Battalion, 88; Third Battalion, 88, 158, 162–163, 168, 172

  57th Foot, 46; First Battalion, 63, 69, 80–81, 90, 119, 144

  58th Foot, 49; First Battalion, 155; Second Battalion, 113, 145, 147, 155

  59th Foot; Second Battalion, 120–122, 154, 306

  60th Foot; 11, 12, 48–49, 165–166, 193, 323n28; Fifth Battalion, 193, 236, 248, 308; Seventh Battalion, 165–166, 294; Eighth Battalion, 165–166

  61st Foot; First Battalion, 119

  62nd Foot; Second Battalion, 88, 115–116, 150–151

  63rd Foot, 171–173

  64th Foot, 118, 135–136

  66th Foot; Second Battalion, 96, 144–147, 153, 155

  68th Light Infantry, 9, 48, 94, 149, 225, 228, 230

  69th Foot; Second Battalion, 54, 163–164

  70th Foot, 47, 315n51

  71st Highland Light Infantry, 48, 51, 67, 314n8; First Battalion, 48, 51, 63, 79–82, 142, 150, 153, 211, 306, 326n21

  72nd Foot (Highlanders until 1808), 47, 51, 314n8

  73rd Foot (Highlanders until 1808), 290, 314n8; First Battalion, 118; Second Battalion, 44–45, 81–82, 156–157, 159, 291

  74th Foot (Highlanders until 1808), 47, 50

  75th Foot (Highlanders until 1808), 47, 314n8

  76th Foot, 50, 115, 150, 306

  77th Foot, 49, 114–115, 230

  78th Highlanders, 46–47, 135–137, 314n8 First Battalion, 136; Second Battalion, 48, 136, 164

  79th Highlanders, 47, 136, 314n8; First Battalion, 57, 266, 306

  80th Foot, 47

  81st Foot, 47; Second Battalion, 164, 306

  82nd Foot, 47; First Battalion, 206, 306

  83rd Foot, 99; First Battalion, 100; Second Battalion, 88, 99–101, 114, 222, 236

  84th Foot; Second Battalion, 115–116, 159, 247, 319n62

  85th Light Infantry, 47–48, 50, 62, 96, 115–116, 142, 153

  86th Foot, 158, 171, 315n51; First Battalion, 159; Second Battalion, 158–60, 168, 172–173

  87th Foot, 47, 59, 251, 315n51, 316n79; Second Battalion, 59, 66–67, 122–123, 236, 250

  88th Foot, 59, 102–104, 136, 207, 315n51; First Battalion, 14–15, 50, 55, 64, 102–105, 214, 250; Second Battalion, 14–15, 102–104, 106, 114, 119

  89th Foot, 82, 290; Second Battalion, 15, 82–83

  90th Foot, 47–48, 315n51

  91st Foot (Highlanders until 1808), 47, 314n8; First Battalion, 16, 47, 57, 306; Second Battalion, 47, 156–157, 167–168, 251, 254

  92nd Highlanders, 47, 314n8; First Battalion, 47, 306

  93rd Highlanders, 314n8

  94th Foot, 46, 52, 210, 315n51

  95th Rifles, 11, 48, 57, 59, 129–130, 140–141, 206, 296, 314n15, 324n120; First Battalion, 26, 63–64, 140, 162, 211, 227, 237, 251, 256, 306; Second Battalion, 64, 66, 120–121, 140, 162, 227–229, 306; Third Battalion, 57, 88, 120, 140, 162, 227–228; Provisional Battalion, 162–163

  96th Foot, 12

  97th Foot, 96, 253, 293, 308

  98th Foot, 118

  99th Foot, 315n51

  100th Foot, 98, 315n51

  101st Foot, 13, 315n51

  102nd Foot, 13, 118, 166, 293, 323n28

  103rd Foot, 13, 323n28

  104th Foot, 11, 13, 51, 55, 98, 293, 323n28

  Abercrombie, Lt. General Sir Ralph, 180–181

  Acland, Major General Wroth Palmer, 23, 173, 183

  Adjutant General, Post of, 5, 7, 8, 67, 154

  Aitcheson, Lt. John, 53–54, 264, 266

  Albuera, Battle of, 28, 46, 50, 54, 90, 95, 102, 106, 144, 146, 201, 217, 220, 235, 290, 328n78

  Alcohol, 44, 50

  Aldea de Ponte, Battle of, 46

  Almeida, Portugal, 27–29, 74, 112, 252

  Almond, Private Joseph, 256

  Alten, Lt. General Karl von, 190–193, 203, 210–211

  Alten, Major General Victor von, 196

  American Revolutionary War, 39, 179, 297–299

  Anson, Major General Sir George, 62

  Anson, Major General William, 71, 148, 209

  Anstruther, Brigadier General Robert, 23, 183

  Antwerp, Netherlands, 25, 36, 116

  Archdall, Lt. Colonel Richard, 69–73, 258

  Armstrong, Paymaster William, 134

  Army Corps, organization of, 179, 191–192, 201–203

  Arroyomolinos, Battle of, 30

  Ashworth, Colonel Charles, 192

  Austrian Army, 24–25, 27, 286

  Aylmer, Major General Mathew, Lord, 115–117, 150, 192, 196

  Badajoz, Spain, 28; operations against (1811), 29, 103; storm of (1812), 30–31, 69, 92, 198, 211, 213, 220, 232, 235

  Baird, Lt. General Sir David, 24, 184, 337n1

  Baltic, Expedition to: 1808, 22, 182, 186; 1813–1814, 35–36, 44, 156–157, 161, 164, 167, 254, 304

  Barossa, Battle of, 30, 47, 120, 122, 139

  Bathurst, Henry, Earl of, 5, 6, 33, 37–38, 127–128, 148, 151, 158, 160–163, 169–70, 174–176, 271, 299

  Battalions of Detachments: Peninsula 1809, 129–133; York’s 1814 Project for, 127, 135, 170–174, 176. See also Corps of Embodied Detachments

  Bayly, Major General Sir Henry, 169

  Bayonne, operations against, 37

  Beckwith, Major General Sidney, 63–64

  “Belem Rangers,” 243, 259

  Bennett, Private (20th Foot), 251

  Bentinck, Lt. General Lord William, 34, 188

  Beresford, Lt. General Sir William Carr, 27–28, 188–189, 201, 249, 326n17

  Bergen op Zoom, attack on, 36, 54, 164, 170

  Bermuda, 166

  Billets, 110, 240–42

  Bingham, Lt. Colonel George Ridout, 78, 209

  Bissett, Commissary General Sir John, 264

  Blakeney, Colonel Edward, 256

  Bock, Major General Baron E.O.G. von, 278

  Bonaparte, Joseph, 33

  Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon I, Emperor of the French

  Bork, Private Henry, 282

  Bowes, Brigadier General Barnard, 326n17

  Bridger, Captain James, 272

  Brigades: 1st Guards Brigade, 54, 124, 137–139, 235, 241, 321n27; 2nd Guards Brigade, 137, 139; 3rd Brigade (1809), 249–
250; 3rd Guards Brigade, 138–139, 161; 7th Brigade (1815), 116; 12th Brigade (1815), 116–117; Brigade of Provisional Militia, 169–171, 192; Flank Brigades, 184; Household Brigade (see Household Cavalry); Hussar Brigade, 144, 196, 266, 276, 285; Light Brigade, 26, 48, 114, 190, 228; Organization of, 104, 106, 108, 176, 196, 207, 288. For brigades in peninsular army post-1809, see names of incumbent commanders

  British North America, 20, 32, 38, 40, 42, 82–83, 87, 90, 96, 99–100, 104, 112, 117–118, 127, 135, 142–143, 156, 165–166, 220, 223–224, 246, 249, 255–256, 293, 295, 300, 304

  Brock, Major General Isaac, 32

  Brophy, Private Ody, 55

  Browne, Captain Thomas, 59, 296

  Browne, Lt. Colonel John, 168

  Brownrigg, Lt. General Sir Robert, 5

  Brumwell, Stephen (historian), 298

  Brunswick-Oels Hussars, 11, 19

  Brunswick-Oels Light Infantry, 11, 193

  Bullocks. See Oxen, draught

  Bunbury, Lt. Colonel William, 80

  Bunbury, Major General Sir Henry, 6, 178

  Burgos, Spain: retreat from, 31, 56, 60, 92, 146, 148, 201, 241, 249, 260, 266, 282, 290; siege of, 31, 213, 231

  Burgoyne, Lt. Colonel John Fox, 283

  Burgoyne, Major General Montague, 83

  Burne, Colonel Robert, 195

  Burrard, Lt. General Sir Harry, 23, 182, 184

  Busaço, Battle of, 27, 50, 237

  Byng, Major General John, 80–81, 146, 255

  Cadiz, Spain, 7, 24, 29, 33–34, 52, 66, 96, 102, 112, 118–122, 125, 137–140, 154, 161, 165–166, 192, 223, 229, 246, 251, 273, 303; siege of, 27, 29, 245

  Cadogan, Colonel Hon. Henry, 51, 63, 79, 81–82, 189, 317n118

  Calabrian Freecorps, 17

  Calcraft, Major General Sir Granby, 51–52

  Calvert, Lt. General Sir Harry, 5, 58, 67, 174, 295

  Cameron, Brigadier General Alan, 129, 188

  Cameron, Lt. Colonel Alexander, 162

  Cameron of Fassiefern, Lt. Colonel John, 47

  Campbell, Lt. Colonel James, 214

  Campbell, Lt. General Sir Colin, 10, 11, 83, 125

  Campbell, Major General Alexander, 188, 195–196, 200

  Canadian units, 8, 224, 253–254, 304; Fencibles, 32, 43, 254; Militia, 32

  Canning, George, 128, 170

  Capel, Colonel Hon. Edward, 120

  Castlereagh, Robert, Viscount, 3, 5, 12, 13, 21, 24, 95, 127–128, 132, 134, 167, 188

  Cathcart, Lt. General William, Earl of, 181

  Champalimaud, Coronel José, 191

  Channel Islands, 15, 36. See also Guernsey; Jersey

  Chasseurs Britanniques, 17, 192–193, 254

  Chateauguay, Battle of, 35

  Chatham, Lt. General John, Earl of, 6, 25, 92, 134, 185, 199–200, 228, 230–231

  Chippewa, Battle of, 38

  Cimetière, Captain Gilbert, 144

  Cintra, Convention of, 23, 182

  Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, 27, 29, 31; storm of, 29, 30, 190, 198, 213, 232, 312n80

  Cliford, Major Miller, 83

  Clifton, Lt. Colonel Arthur, 194

  Clinton, Lt. General Sir Henry, 67, 75–77, 208–211

  Clinton, Lt. General Sir William, 34

  Côa, Combat on the, 56, 205

  Cochrane, Lt. Colonel Hon. Basil, 134

  Cocks, Captain Hon. Edward Somers, 110, 112

  Cocoa, proposed issue of, 240

  Colborne, Colonel John, 29, 48, 95, 144

  Coldstream Guards: First battalion, 137; Second battalion, 138, 161

  Cole, Lt. General Sir Galbraith Lowry, 71, 177, 188, 201, 208–211, 215

  Colley, Linda (historian), 206, 298, 336n44

  Colonial units. See Foreign units

  Colours, 50, 81

  Colville, Lt. General Charles, 200, 211

  Commander in Chief, post of, 3, 5, 6–7, 12, 61, 67–68, 71, 127, 133, 146, 152, 156, 174–175, 209

  Commissary in Chief, post of, 24

  Commissary Services, 19–20, 189, 234, 263

  Companies of Independent Foreigners, 166, 293–294

  Conscription, 43, 286, 291

  Convalescents, 243–44

  Cooke, Major General George, 96, 120–121, 161, 168

  Cookson, John (historian), 47, 207

  Cooper, Sergeant John Spencer, 58, 84, 237, 241, 256, 290

  Coote, Lt. General Sir Eyre, 185

  Copenhagen Expedition (1807), 22, 181

  Corporal punishment, 52, 64–72, 74–77, 80–82, 250, 258, 260, 281–282

  Corps of Embodied Detachments, 134–137, 141, 159

  Corunna, Spain, 24, 266; Battle of, 24; retreat to, 55, 186, 249–252

  Corunna Campaign (1808–1809), 24–25, 48, 57, 73, 86, 88, 90, 128–129, 141–142, 224, 228, 232, 235, 266, 305–306, 326n21, 337n1

  Coss, Edward (historian), 238, 291, 328n27, 329n10, 330n58

  Cotton, Lt. General Sir Stapleton, 133, 189, 194, 200

  County titles, 47, 58

  Courts-martial, 10, 62, 69, 76, 244–245, 248, 253, 280; Drumhead, 64–66; General, 53, 64; Regimental, 69, 80, 165, 260, 180–181

  Cradock, Lt. General Sir John, 25, 128, 132, 187, 199, 269

  Craufurd, Brigadier General James Catlin, 9, 327n59

  Craufurd, Major General Robert, 26, 56, 64–65, 114, 190, 205, 208–209, 250, 256, 289–290, 297

  Crowe, Lt. Charles, 209

  Crysler’s Farm, Battle of, 35, 83

  Cumming, Colonel Henry, 62

  Cunningham, Private (87th Foot), 251

  Cuyler, Lt. Colonel Henry, 62

  Dalhousie, Lt. General George, Earl of, 37, 201

  Dalrymple, Lt. General Sir Hew, 23, 182–186

  D’Arcy, Lt. John, 55

  Davy, Private Henry, 253

  Dawes, Troop Sergeant Major William, 283–285, 334n69

  “De-Kilting,” 47, 59

  Depots: Army, 134–135; Foreign, 165; Regimental, 89, 96, 103, 154–155, 158, 162–63, 173, 227, 272

  Desertion, 18, 65, 74, 78, 91, 131–132, 167, 218, 245–259, 307–308

  Detroit, Battle of, 32

  Dietz, Peter (historian), 296

  Dilkes, Brigadier General William, 138

  Disposable Force, 21, 90, 128

  Divisions, 115, 178–201, 288, 294–295, 297–298; First Division (Hundred Days), 210; First Division (Peninsula), 54, 56, 74, 115, 124, 140, 188–193, 195, 197–198, 200–201, 205, 208–209, 212; Second Division (Hundred Days), 117, 203, 210; Second Division (Peninsula), 29, 144, 188, 190–192, 197–198, 201, 205–206, 208–209, 298; Third Division (Hundred Days), 203; Third Division (Peninsula), 102, 190, 198, 205, 207–208, 211–212, 214, 289; Third Division (Walcheren), 134; Fourth Division (Peninsula) 29, 104, 112, 148, 177, 188, 190, 195, 198, 200, 204–205, 207–208, 210, 212, 295; Fifth Division (Hundred Days), 177; Fifth Division (Peninsula), 115–116, 190, 195–196, 198–199, 205, 212–213, 290; Fifth Division (Walcheren), 185, 326n23; Sixth Division (Hundred Days), 177; Sixth Division (Peninsula), 56–57, 104, 190–191, 195–200, 205, 207–208; Seventh Division (Peninsula), 37, 185, 190–195, 197–198, 205–206, 208, 295; First Cavalry Division (Peninsula; unnumbered 1809–1811, 1813–1814), 189, 194, 206, 208, 295; Second Cavalry Division (Peninsula), 194–95, 201, 208, 278, 295; Light Division (Peninsula), 56, 140, 167, 178, 190, 192–193, 197–98, 204, 208–209, 211–212, 256, 279, 289–290, 295; Light Division (Walcheren), 185; Portuguese Division (Peninsula), 190–192, 197, 208, 327n45

  Doherty, Lt. Colonel Patrick, 194

  Don, Lt. General Sir George, 185

  Donaldson, Sergeant Joseph, 52–53, 65, 209–210

  Donellan, Lt. Colonel Charles, 63

  Douglas, Captain Neil, 266

  Doyle, Lt. Colonel Charles William, 67, 316n79

  Doyle, Lt. General Sir John, 73–74, 78, 164, 316n79

  Drill, 10, 44, 75, 165

  Drummond, Lt. General Gordon, 38

  Dundas, General Sir David, 5, 7, 127–128, 132–134, 137–13
8, 159, 175, 320n2

  Dunlop, Major General James, 195

  East Coast of Spain, operations on (1812–14), 19, 33–34, 100, 155, 165, 215, 246, 269, 303

  Egyptian Campaign (1801), 46, 48, 86, 169, 180–181, 219

  Egyptian Campaign (1807), 21, 181

  El Bodón, action at, 53

  Elting, John (historian), 242

  Elvas, Portugal, 112; hospital at, 236–237, 241

  Epidemics: 1809 Peninsula epidemic, 235–237; 1813 Gibraltar Yellow Fever epidemic, 223–224; 1813 Peninsula epidemic, 124, 191, 235, 241. See also Walcheren Fever

  Erskine, Lt. General Sir William, 140, 195, 201, 290

  Esprit de corps, 45, 50, 53, 60, 84, 87, 148, 211, 287, 289

  Establishments, regimental, 13, 15, 106–107 158–161

  Fane, Major General Hon. Henry, 194–195, 200

  Fencible Infantry, 12, 169

  Fitzgerald, Lt. Colonel John, 166

  Fletcher, Ian (historian), 275, 334n69

  Flogging. See Corporal punishment

  Fonseca, Brigadeiro A. L. da, 191

  Foot Guards, 11, 17, 26, 47, 54–56, 137–141, 171, 185–186, 205, 209, 258, 296–297. See also individual units by name

  Forage, 110, 262, 268–269, 285; theft of, 280–282

  Foreigners, enlistment of, 11, 43, 165–168, 254–255, 293–294, 308

  Foreign units, 11, 17–18, 39–40, 42–43, 165, 246, 248–249, 253, 293. See also individual units by name

  Fortescue, Hon. Sir John William (historian), 301

  Franck, James (Inspector of Hospitals), 236

  Frederick of Orange, Prince, 202

  French Army, 17, 80, 168, 252, 270, 286

  French Revolutionary Wars, 12, 19, 179–180, 286

  Frey, Silvia (historian), 296, 298

  Fuengirola, Attack on (1810), 30, 82, 120

  Fuentes de Oñoro, Battle of, 28, 29, 81, 198, 205–206, 214

  Fusilier regiments, 47–48, 55, 186, 207, 258, 314n8. See also individual units by name

  Gaelic, 58–59

  Garcia Hernandez, Battle of, 278–279

  Garrison battalions, 11, 117, 224. See also individual units by name

  General Regulations, 9, 17, 61

  Gibbs, Major General Samuel, 5, 44–45, 156–157, 160–61, 167

  Gibraltar, 10, 23, 30, 33, 82–83, 96, 102, 112, 115, 118–120, 122, 125, 158, 166, 223, 230, 245–246, 251, 303, 319n62

  Glanders, 270–271

  Gleig, Lt. George, 50, 264, 266, 283

  Göhrde, Battle of, 36, 156

  Gordon, Captain Alexander, 55–56

  Gordon, Major General James Willoughby, 5

 

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