Foreign and Colonial Troops

      Adjutant General's Office, 6 March 1816

      Return of Foreign and Colonial Troops in British Pay, on 25th December 1815.

      Regiments Strength    Regiments Strength
      KING'S GERMAN LEGION: YORK LIGHT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS 1,157
          1st Light Dragoons 534 ROYAL CORSICAN RANGERS 1,120
          2nd Light Dragoons 479 SICILIAN 622
          1st Hussars 588 GREEK LIGHT INFANTRY 567
          2nd Hussars 594 IONIAN GREEK INFANTRY 319
          3rd Hussars 783 WEST INDIAN REGIMENTS:
      BRUNSWICK HUSSARS 319     1st Regiment 653
      CEYLONESE LIGHT DRAGOONS 40     2nd Regiment 648
      FOREIGN CORPS OF WAGGONERS 317     3rd Regiment 868
      TOTAL CAVALRY 3,664     4th Regiment 842

          5th Regiment 521
      SIXTIETH REGIMENT:     6th Regiment 873
          1st Battalion 956     7th Regiment 835
          2nd Battalion 981     8th Regiment 835
          3rd Battalion 788     Invalid Companies 266
          4th Battalion 876     Pioneers 313
          5th Battalion 216     Recruiting Depot 769
          6th Battalion 607 AMERICAN FENCIBLES:
          7th Battalion 776     Newfoundland 248
          8th Battalion 496     Nova Scotia 428
      KING'S GERMAN LEGION:     Canadian 518
          1st Light Battalion 579     Glengary 322
          2nd Light Battalion 504     New Brunswick 351
          1st Line Battalion 422 CEYLONESE:
          2nd Line Battalion 585     1st Regiment 1,000
          3rd Line Battalion 548     2nd Regiment 1,000
          4rd Line Battalion 487     3rd Regiment 836
          5th Line Battalion 458 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE REGIMENT 751
          6th Line Battalion 601 ITALIAN LEVY:
          7th Line Battalion 721     1st Regiment 869
          8th Line Battalion 546     2nd Regiment 813
          Veteran Battalion 832     3rd Regiment 958
      WATTEVILLE'S 899     Garrison Company 132
      ROLL'S 982 BOURBONREGIMENT 556
      MEURON'S 664
      TOTAL INFANTRY 34,514

      GENERAL TOTAL 38,178

      House of Commons. Session 1 February - 2 July 1816. Volume XII: Estimates and Accounts: Army, Navy, Ordnance, Civil Services, & c, p. 104.