Research: Abstract of the Napoleonic Era

 

Army:

Great Britain: State of the Army 1 June 1808

 

Location
Strength
Mediterranean Gibraltar
5,328
Malta
4,047
Sicily
14,947
West Indies Leeward Islands
12,556
Jamaica, etc.
5,499
Bahamas, etc.
2,253
North America Canada
3,252
Nova Scotia
4,566
East Indies East Indies
15,131
Ceylon
4,645
Madeira
1,612
With Lieutenant General Sir John Moore
10,871
With Major General Spenser
3,704
Goree, Africa
224
New South Wales
536
On Passage
4,454
United Kingdom Great Britain
63,355
Ireland
33,667
United Kingdom Militia
86,788
Heligoland
302
Cape of Good Hope
7,042

 

SOURCE:

Fortescue, John W. The County Lieutenancies and the Army: 1803 - 1814 London : MacMillan; 1909. P. 305

 

Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2001

 



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