The Forgotten Army: Fencible Regiments of Great Britain 1793-1816

The Forgotten Army: Fencible Regiments of Great Britain 1793 - 1816

Fencible Cavalry Regiments [of Light Dragoons] 1794-1799

England:

Name	Strength	Date Raised	Commander	Location
Berkshire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry or 'Windsor Foresters'	6 troops	1 May 1794	Colonel Charles Rooke
Cambridge Troop of Fencible Cavalry	1 troop	25 April 1794	Captain Robert Adeane	Ireland
Cinque Ports Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	1 May 1794	Colonel Robert B. Jenkinson
Cornwall Corps of Fencible Cavalry	4 troops [6 troops 14 April 1795]	14 April 1794	LCCmdt George Boscawen 3rd Viscount Falmouth
(Loyal) Essex Corps of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	25 October 1794 - 1802	Colonel James E. Urquhart	Ireland
New Romney Corps of Fencible Cavalry (or Duke of York's Own Fencible Cavalry)	2 troops	20 April 1794	Major Cmdt Cholmeley Dering	Ireland
Hampshire Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops	13 April 1794	Major Cmdt Thomas C. Everitt
Lancashire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry [first known as Thomas Peter Legh, his regiment of Fencible Cavalry]	6 troops	14 March 1794	Colonel Thomas P. Legh
Norfolk Regiment of Fencible Cavalry [first known as Colonel Harbord, His Regiment of Fencible Cavalry)	6 troops	10 April 1794	LCCmdt W. Asheton Harbord
Oxford Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops	20 April 1794	Major Cmdt Thomas Parker
Princess of Wales's Fencible Cavalry	4 troops	14 April 1795	Colonel William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington
Rutland Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	19 March 1794	Colonel Gerard Noel Edwards
Somerset Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	28 March 1794	Colonel John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett
Surrey Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	1 May 1794	Colonel George Onslow, Earl of Onslow
Sussex Corps of Fencible Cavalry	1 troop	13 April 1794	Major Cmdt Sir George Thomas, Bart
Warwick Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	1 April 1794	LCCmdt George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Provisional Cavalry Regiments

Raised under an Act of 11 November, 1796, to be Embodied in case of emergency, for service in Great Britain only. On 13 August 1799, they were converted to Fencible Cavalry. In March 1800, they were ordered disbanded.

Name	Strength	Date Raised	Commander	Location
Berkshire	6 troops	Embodied May 1798?	Lt Colonel Charles Dundas
Kent	6 troops	Embodied 16 July 1798	Lt Colonel G. K. H. Coussmaker
Northumberland	4 troops	Embodied 16 July 1798	Lt Colonel A. M. Lawson de Cardonnel
Somerset [also as 2nd Somerset Fencible Cavalry]	8 troops	Embodied 16 July 1798	Lt Colonel John Bourland
Suffolk	6 troops	Embodied May 1798	Lt Colonel Sir William Rowley
Worcestershire	4 troops	Embodied 16 July 1798	Lt Colonel John Somers Cocks	Ireland 1799

Scotland:

Name	Strength	Date Raised	Commander	Location
Ayr Corps of Fencible Cavalry [later Ayrshire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry]	2 troops [6 Troops 12 January 1796]	1 March 1794	Major Cmdt. Andrew Dunlop
Berwickshire Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 Troops [4 troops 17 April 1795]	27 April 1794	Major Cmdt Sir Alexander Don, Bart
Dumbarton Troop of Fencible Cavalry	1 troop [2 troops in 20 June 1794]	27 May 1794	Captain Claud Hamilton	Amalgamated with Lanark in 1795 as Lanark & Dumbarton
Dumfries Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops [4 troops 20 June 1794]	4 May 1794	Major Cmdt. Michael Stewart Maxwell	Ireland
Fifeshire Corps of Fencible Cavalry	troops [4 troops 3 August 1795]	29 May 1794	Major Cmdt. John Anstruther Thompson
Forfar Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops?	1 June 1794	Major Cmdt. William Ramsey Maule
Lanarkshire Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops [4 troops 7 July 1794]	9 May 1794	Major Cmdt. William Hamilton	Amalgamated with Dumbarton in 1795 as Lanark & Dumbarton
Linlithgow Troop of Fencible Cavalry	1 troop	7 July 1794	Captain Sir Alexander Livingstone. Bart.
East & West Lothian Fencible Cavalry	2 troops	4 April 1794	Colonel John Hamilton
Mid-Lothian Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops	4 April 1794	Major Cmdt. William Kerr, Earl of Ancram	Ireland
Perthshire Fencible Cavalry	3 troops [6 troops 28 May 1795]	9 May 1794	Major Cmdt Charles Moray
Princess Royals Own Regiment of Fencible Cavalry	4 troops	1 May 1795	Colonel Andrew McDowall
Roxburgh Corps of Fencible Cavalry [later Roxburgh & Selkirk]	2 troops [4 troops 21 April 1795]	9 May 1794	Major Cmdt. Sir John Scott, Bart.	Ireland

Wales:

Name	Strength	Date Raised	Commander	Location
Ancient British Fencible Cavalry (North Wales Regiment), [first known as Sir Watkins William Wynne, his regiment of Fencible Cavalry]	6 troops	14 March 1794	Colonel Sir Watkins Wynne, Bart.	Ireland
Pembroke Troop of Fencible Cavalry	1 troop [3 troops 17 April 1795]	12 May 1794	Captain Henry Davis

Ireland:

Name	Date Raised	Commander	Location
1st Regiment of Fencible Cavalry Dragoons (Lord Jocelyn's) [and later also known as Lord Roden's]	21 July 1794 - 1802	LCCmdt Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn	Ireland
2nd Regiment of Fencible Cavalry Dragoons (Lord Glentworth's)	4 August 1794 - 1802	LCCmdt Edmund Pery, 2nd Lord Glentworth	Ireland

Others:

Name	Strength	Date Raised	Commander	Location
Duke of Buccleuch's Corps of Fencible Cavalry	2 troops	7 April 1794	Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch	[never formed? merged with Ancram's?]
Durham Regiment of Fencible Cavalry		19 April 1794	LCCmdt William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington	[never completed? may have become Princess of Wales's Fencible Cavalry]
First Regiment of Fencible Cavalry [first known as Right Hon. John Charles Villiers, his regiment of Fencible Cavalry]	6 troops	14 March 1794	Colonel John Charles Villiers	volunteered for General Service 1799
Haddington Corps of Fencible Cavalry		9 May 1794	Major Cmdt. J. Hamilton	[never completed? may have become the East and West Lothian Fencible Cavalry in 1795]
St. Leger's Fencible Cavalry	6 troops	31 March 1794		[never formed? a William St. Leger raised a regular regiment of Light Dragoons]

Placed on the Napoleon Series: June 2003; updated January 2011

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