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Chapter VI: Part 6

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| IN ENGLAND. | IN SCOTLAND. |
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| 1st Reserve Battalion.| 5th Reserve Battalion.|
| 3rd ” | 14th ” |
| 4th ” +------------------------+
| 6th ” | IN IRELAND. |
| 7th ” +------------------------+
| 8th ” | 2nd Reserve Battalion.|
| 9th ” | 13th ” |
| 10th ” | 16th ” |
| 11th ” | |
| 12th ” | |
| 15th ” | |
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_Under the Additional Force Acts in 1804._

In the year 1804, _Thirty-seven_ other Regiments (as shown in the following list) were augmented by second battalions, in consequence of having been appointed to receive men raised for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland, under the _Additional Force Acts_ passed on the 29th of June, and 10th and 14th of July 1804, viz.:

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| IN ENGLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. |
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| 5th Foot | 25th Foot | 56th Foot |
| 6th ” | 31st ” | 59th ” |
| 7th ” | 32nd ” | 62nd ” |
| 8th ” | 36th ” | 63rd ” |
| 9th ” | 38th ” | 82nd ” |
| 10th ” | 40th ” | 83rd ” |
| 14th ” | 43rd ” | 90th ” |
| 15th ” | 45th ” | 96th ” late 2nd |
| 23rd ” | 50th ” | Battalion of |
| 24th ” | 52nd ” | 52nd Regiment. |
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| IN SCOTLAND. | IN IRELAND. |
| Under the Act passed on | Under the Act passed on |
| the 10th of July 1804. | 14th of July 1804. |
+---------------------------------+------------------------------+
| 1st Royal Regiment | 27th Regiment |
| 21st ” | 87th ” |
| 71st ” | 88th ” |
| 72nd ” | 89th ” |
| 91st ” | |
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List of the _Fifty-six_ regiments which were appointed to receive men, raised for limited service in England, Scotland, and Ireland, under the _Additional Force Acts_, passed in the year 1804, including the _Nineteen_ regiments (marked thus *) which had been augmented by _Second Battalions_ from the men raised under the _Army of Reserve Acts_ passed in the previous year (1803), and specifying the counties allotted to the several regiments.

_Adjutant-General’s Office,
Horse-Guards, 1804._

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| IN ENGLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. |
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| Regiments.| Counties. |
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| *3rd | London City. |
| 5th | Sussex. |
| 6th | Lancaster. |
| 7th | York (West Riding). |
| 8th | York (North Riding). |
| 9th | Dorset and Somerset. |
| 10th | Essex. |
| 14th | Bedford, Buckingham, Northampton. |
| 15th | York (East Riding). |
| 23rd | Anglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, & Merioneth. |
| 24th | Warwick. |
| 25th | Cumberland, Westmoreland. |
| *28th | Devon. |
| *30th | Huntingdon, Leicester, Cambridge. |
| 31st | Chester. |
| 32nd | Cornwall. |
| 36th | Durham. |
| 38th | Stafford. |
| *39th | Salop. |
| 40th | Dorset & Somerset, late Second Battalion of 52nd |
| | Regiment. |
| 43rd | Worcester. |
| 45th | Nottingham & Rutland. |
| *47th | Norfolk. |
| *48th | Lancaster. |
| 50th | Gloucester. |
| 52nd | Hertford, Oxford, & Bucks. |
| *53rd | York (West Riding). |
| 56th | Surrey. |
| *57th | Kent, & the Cinque Ports. |
| 59th | Derby. |
| *61st | Northumberland. |
| 62nd | Wilts. |
| 63rd | Suffolk. |
| *66th | Hants, & the Isle of Wight. |
| *69th | Lincoln. |
| *81st | Hereford, Montgomery, & Radnor. |
| 82nd | Tower Hamlets. |
| 83rd | Middlesex. |
| 90th | Monmouth, Glamorgan, & Brecknock. |
| 96th | Cardigan, Carmarthen, & Pembroke. |
| |
| FORTY REGIMENTS. |
| |
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| IN SCOTLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 10th of July 1804. |
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| Regiments.| Counties. |
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| 1st | Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, |
| Royal | & Roxburgh. |
| 21st | Renfrew & Ayr. |
| *26th | Edinburgh City & County, Linlithgow, Peebles, |
| | Berwick, & Haddington. |
| *42nd | Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, & Caithness. |
| 71st | Stirling, Dumbarton, Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, |
| | Kincardine, & Forfar. |
| 72nd | Aberdeen. |
| 91st | Bute, Argyle, & Perth. |
| *92nd | Nairn, Elgin, Inverness, & Banff. |
| |
| EIGHT REGIMENTS. |
| |
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| IN IRELAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 14th of July 1804. |
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| Regiments.| Counties. |
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| *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. |
| 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. |
| *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, |
| | & Queen’s County. |
| *58th | Cork City & County, & Kerry. |
| *67th | Dublin City & County, Roscommon, |
| | Longford, & Meath. |
| 87th | Tipperary, Galway, & Clare. |
| 88th | Cavan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, & Mayo. |
| 89th | Wexford, Kilkenny, Waterford, & Limerick City |
| | & County. |
| *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. |
| 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. |
| *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, |
| | & Queen’s County. |
| |
| EIGHT REGIMENTS. |
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The ERRATA section was printed on a page with extraneous text at the
top and bottom (printer’s error). This has been removed.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Eight occurrences of ‘Guadaloupe’ have been changed to ‘Guadeloupe’.

Pg ix: ‘Passage of the _Niver_’ replaced by ‘Passage of the _Nive_’.
Pg 24: ‘but in conquence’ replaced by ‘but in consequence’.
Pg 48: Sidenote ‘1810. 2nd Batt.’ replaced by ‘1810. 1st Batt.’.
Pg 79: Missing Sidenote ‘1836.’ inserted before ‘In February 1836’.
Pg 121: ‘THIRTH-NINTH’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-NINTH’.

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