List of British Army Regiments (1800)

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British Army lists
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

*     * Armies, corps, and divisions
* Generals killed
* Awards

Victorian era

*     * Formations during the era

*     * Crimean War divisions
* Second Boer War formations

First World War

*     * Field armies
* Corps
* Divisions

*     * Brigades
* Reserve Brigades

*     * Provisional battalions
* Entrenching battalions

*     * Tunnelling companies

*     * Generals killed
* Cavalry generals

Second World War

*     * Field armies
* Corps
* Divisions
* Brigades
* Deception

*     * Royal Armoured Corps regiments
* Royal Artillery regiments

Regiments

*     * Cavalry
* Foot
* Fencibles

*     * in 1800
* in 1881
* in 1962
* in 2008

*     * Present-day
* Nicknames

Officers

*     * Senior officers
* Serving senior officers

*     * Generals and brigadiers
* Full generals

Other

*     * Commands and Army groups
* Royal Artillery Batteries

*     * Yeomanry Regiments converted-
to Royal Artillery

*     * Territorial Force Units in 1908

*     * Territorial Army units in 2012

*     * Current Reserve Units
* Barracks

*     * Cadet Force
* Equipment

*     *
Lists of British Army units and formations

* v
* t
* e

The Organization is as follows:[1]

* Regiment
* New Formed Regiment - from 1777 - to 1800

## Household Cavalry

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* 1st Regiment of Life Guards \- Heavy Cavalry, part of the Household Cavalry
* 2nd Regiment of Life Guards \- Heavy Cavalry, part of the Household Cavalry
* Royal Horse Guards (Blues) \- Heavy Cavalry, part of the Household Cavalry

## Cavalry

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### Dragoon Guards

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* 1st (The Kings) Dragoon Guards
* 2nd (The Queen's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards
* 3rd (The Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards
* 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
* 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards
* 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards
* 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards

### Dragoons

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* 1st (Royal) Dragoons
* 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons
* 3rd (King's Own) Dragoons
* 5th (Royal Irish) Dragoons
* 4th (Queen's Own) Dragoons
* 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons

### Light Dragoons

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* 7th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons
* 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Light Dragoons
* 9th Light Dragoons
* 10th (Prince of Wales') Light Dragoons
* 11th Light Dragoons
* 12th (Prince of Wales') Light Dragoons
* 13th Light Dragoons
* 14th (Duchess of York's) Light Dragoons
* 15th (King's) Light Dragoons
* 16th (The Queen's) Light Dragoons
* 17th Light Dragoons
* 18th Light Dragoons
* 19th Light Dragoons

## Foot Guards

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* 1st Regiment of Foot Guards \- 4 Battalion from 1803-1804, than reduced to 3
* Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards \- 2 Battalions
* 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards \- 2 Battalions

## Infantry of the Line

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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
* 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1803-1815
* 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1816
* 6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1816
* 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1808-1816
* 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1811-1818[4]
* 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot \- Became Buckinghamshire in 1809 - 2 Battalions 1804-1816 and 3 from 1813-1816
* 15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1799-1802 and again 1804-1816
* 16th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot \- Re-named "Bedfordshire" in 1809 - 1 Battalion
* 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1799-1802
* 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1814
* 19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1799-1802
* 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1816
* 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions in 1814
* 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 25th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot \- Renamed "King's Own Borderers" in 1805 - 2 Battalions 1804-1816
* 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1813
* 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1800-1803, than again 1805-1817, 3 Battalions from 1805-1816
* 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1814
* 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1795-1796
* 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1817
* 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1805-1814
* 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1805-1817
* 35th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot \- Renamed "Sussex" in 1805 - 2 Battalions 1799-1803, than again 1804-1817
* 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1813-1817
* 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot \- Renamed "Dorsetshire" in 1807 - 2 Battalions 1803-1815
* 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1799-1802 and 1804-1816
* 41st Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions in 1813
* 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1780-1786 and 1804-1812
* 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot \- Became Light Infantry in 1803 - 2 Battalions 1804-1817
* 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1816
* 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1800-1802
* 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1803-1815
* 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalion 1803-1814
* 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1813-1814
* 50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot \- Became Light Infantry in 1809, King's Own 1812 - 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot \- Became Light Infantry 1803 - 2 Battalions 1799-1803 and 1804-1815
* 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1817
* 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1800-1802
* 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1817 3 Battalions 1813-1814
* 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1815
* 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1815
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1816
* 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot \- 8 Battalions from 1813-1819
* 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1814
* 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1799-1802 and 1804-1816
* 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1814
* 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot \- ???? No information found..
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion
* 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1816
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1803-1817
* 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot \- Light Infantry in 1812 - 2 Battalions 1800-1802
* 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1795-1796 and 1803-1816
* 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot \- Became "Glasgow Lowland" in 1812 - 1 Battalion
* 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot \- Light Infantry in 1810 - Glasgow Highland in 1808, Glasgow Highland Light Infantry in 1809 Highland Light Infantry in 1810 - 2 Battalions 1778-1783 and 1804-1815
* 72nd Regiment of Foot \- Became Seaforth 1778, Highland in 1786, 72nd in 1809 - 2 Battalions 1804-1816
* 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1809-1817
* 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot \- Lost Highland Status in 1809 - 1 Battalion
* 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot \- Lost Highland Status and dress in 1809 - 1 Battalion
* 76th (Hindustan) Regiment of Foot \- Became Hindustan in 1806, last in 1812 - 1 Battalion
* 77th Regiment of Foot \- Became East Middlesex in 1807 - 1 Battalion
* 78th (Ross-Shire Buffs Highlanders) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1793-1796 and 1804-1816
* 79th (Cameronian Highland Volunteers) Regiment of Foot \- Cameron Highlanders in 1804 2 Battalions 1804-1815
* 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot \- Staffordshire Volunteers in 1802, 1 Battalion
* 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) \- Loyal Lincoln Volunteers in 1803, 2 Battalions
* 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) \- Prince of Wales's Volunteers in 1804, 2 Battalions- amalgamated with 40th Regiment of Foot in 1881 to form South Lancashire Regiment
* 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions, 1804. Amalgamated with the 86th in 1881 to become the Royal Irish Rifles which in turn became The Royal Ulster Rifles
* 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1808-1819
* 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) \- 2 Battalions in 1801. Reduced to 1 Battalion in 1802.
* 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1813-14.
* 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1817
* 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) \- 2 Battalions 1805-1816
* 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions 1804-1816
* 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) \- 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1804-1817
* 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1804-1815
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1803-1814
* 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot \- 2 Battalions from 1813-1816
* 94th Regiment of Foot \- called ‘The Scotch Brigade’ until 1802.
* Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) \- formed in 1800 as the Experimental Corps of Rifles, renamed the 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles) in 1803. 2nd Battalion raised in 1805. 3rd Battalion raised in 1809.
* 96th Regiment of Foot -
* 100th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot \- 1 Battalion raised in Ireland in 1804. Transferred to North America in 1805, Prince Regent descriptor granted in 1813. Disbanded in 1818.

## Colonial / Foreign

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The British Army raised several colonial and foreign units, including the following:[5]

### Canada

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* 1st (Queen's Rangers) Regiment \- 2 Companies [Formed in Canada]

### West Indies

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There were twelve West Indies regiment in British service during the time of the Napoleonic Wars.[6]

### Menorca

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* The Minorca Regiment \- formed on Menorca
* Franc Tireur Corses \- company strength, Menorca

### Africa

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* Fraser's Corps of Infantry \- 2 Companies, later increased to 12 [Formed in West Africa]

### India

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* Regiment de Meuron (First raised in Switzerland in 1781 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), defected and entered British service in 1795 in Ceylon)

## Artillery

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[7]

Royal Horse Artillery

* A (Chestnut Troop) Battery
* B Battery
* C Battery
* D Battery
* E Battery
* F (Sphinx) Battery

Royal Artillery

* 9 (Plassey) Battery
* 20 Battery
* 30 Battery (Rogers's Company)
* 42 (Alem Hamza) Battery
* 49 Battery
* 53 (Louisburg) Battery
* Royal Irish Artillery

## References

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1. ^ "British Army Roll of Regiments 1800". 2007-10-16. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
2. ^ "British Army Roll of Regiments 1800". 2007-10-10. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
3. ^ "British Army - Infantry Regiments genealogy project". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
4. ^ "The Suffolk Regiment [UK]". 2007-10-14. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
5. ^ Atkinson, C. T. (1942). "Foreign Regiments in the British Army, 1793-1802". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 21 (84): 175–181. JSTOR 44219934.
6. ^ "West India Regiments". The British Library. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
7. ^ "Royal Artillery - Regiment History, War & Military Records & Archives". www.forces-war-records.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-07.

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