{{Short description|Principal military reserve forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain during the 18th century}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2025}} [[File:Review of the Norfolk Militia.jpg|thumb|{{circa|1759–1763}} painting of the [[Norfolk Militia]] being reviewed]]
{{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Militia Act 1757 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Great Britain | long_title = An Act for the better Ordering of the Militia Forces, in the several Counties of that Part of Great Britain called England. | year = 1757 | citation = [[30 Geo. 2]]. c. 25 | territorial_extent = [[England and Wales]] | royal_assent = 28 June 1757 | commencement = 1 May 1757{{efn|Section 1.}} | expiry_date = 28 June 1762{{efn|Section 73.}} | repeal_date = 15 July 1867 | amendments = | repealing_legislation = [[Statute Law Revision Act 1867]] | related_legislation = | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ja43AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA129 | use_new_UK-LEG = no | collapsed = yes }}
The '''British Militia''' was the principal [[military reserve force]] of the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during the [[Georgian era]] for [[internal security]] duties and to defend against external [[invasion]]s. The '''{{visible anchor|Militia Act 1757}}''' ([[30 Geo. 2]]. c. 25), passed by the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] after the outbreak of the [[Seven Years' War]], led to the rapid expansion of the British Militia in order to defend from potential French invasions. In the [[Kingdom of Ireland]], a [[client state]] of Great Britain, the equivalent force was the '''Irish Militia''', which saw heavy service in the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]] alongside British militia units. The existence of militia units in Great Britain and Ireland played an important role in freeing [[Regular army|regular troops]] from the [[British Army|British]] and [[Irish Army (1661–1801)|Irish establishments]] for overseas service.
==Background==
Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Parliament passed several acts empowering the [[lord-lieutenant]] of each county to appoint officers and raise men for the [[Militia (England)|English Militia]]. Although the king commanded the forces, they were not centrally funded. The burden of supplying men and equipment fell on property owners, in proportion to their income from land or their property value. The militia could be called out for local police actions, to keep the peace, and in the event of a national emergency. It played a role in coastal defence during the second and third [[Anglo-Dutch Wars]] between 1665 and 1674, and contributed to the defeat of the [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth|Duke of Monmouth]] in 1685.
==Great Britain== [[File:Somerset Militia 1759 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|A private and sergeant of the [[Somerset Militia]] in 1759]] [[File:Norfolk Miliita musket training Mousehold Heath (cropped).jpg|thumb|The [[Norfolk Militia]] undergoing musket training in 1759]]
The militia's usefulness as a military force, never great, declined thereafter, until by the middle of the 18th century it required a major overhaul. This was achieved by the Militia Acts 1757–1762, passed as a response to the threat of a French invasion during the [[Seven Years' War]]. The [[Militia Act 1762]] ([[2 Geo. 3]]. c. 20) was passed to consolidate those acts and increase the effectiveness of the militia. Responsibility for raising and organising the force remained at county level, but funding was provided by central government. Officers were to be appointed from among the property-owning class. Men were to be chosen by ballot among the able-bodied men of the parish between the ages of 18 and 50, and would serve for three years (soon extended to five). If they wished not to serve, they could either provide a substitute or pay a £10 fine.<ref>Western, J. R. ''The English militia in the eighteenth century''. p.129</ref>
There was considerable opposition to the reforms, both in Parliament and in the country at large. Riots occurred in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and elsewhere in 1757. These stemmed chiefly from an ill-informed fear that conscription and compulsory foreign service were being covertly introduced. In fact, the acts, which applied in England and Wales only, restricted service to the territory of Great Britain. However some militia regiments did volunteer for service in Ireland during the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Rebellion of 1798]]. Local opposition to the acts resulted in some counties being slow to implement them. Six counties – Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Sussex and Worcestershire – were in default for many years, also defaulting on a large part of the fines imposed on them in consequence. The [[American Revolution]], which drained the country of regular troops, provided the stimulus that brought the defaulters into line. By 1778 all English and Welsh counties had embodied their militias.<ref>Western, p.158.</ref>
Training of the disembodied militia took place over a period of several weeks each year, outside which officers and men would be largely free to pursue their civilian lives. When embodied, regiments would normally be quartered in public houses or barracks where available. Camps were also an option, and these were often sizeable affairs which brought troops together in large numbers for strategic and training purposes. Although overseas service was excluded from the militia's duties, embodied regiments were usually required to serve away from their home counties, and were frequently moved from one station to another. This was intended to reduce the risk of the men sympathising with the populace if they were required to quell civil unrest. Pay and conditions were similar to those of the regular army, with the additional benefit of money for family dependants. Unlike the army, the militia had no cavalry or, until 1853, artillery.
The militia was constitutionally separate from the army, but from the 1790s militiamen were encouraged to volunteer for the army, and did so in large numbers. During the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] the militia expanded to a total strength of 82,000 men in February 1799, reducing to 66,000 through the [[Militia (No. 4) Act 1799]] ([[39 Geo. 3]]. c. 106), which was designed to reinforce the regular army by encouraging militia volunteers through the offer of bounties for enlistment.<ref>Western, p. 222.</ref> In 1802 peace with France led to the disembodying of the militia, which was embodied again in 1803, when hostilities resumed.<ref>Beckett (1991) p.92</ref>
{{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Relief of Families of Militiamen Act 1803 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An act for consolidating and amending the several Laws for providing Relief for the Families of Militia Men of England, when called out into actual Service. | year = 1803 | citation = [[43 Geo. 3]]. c. 47 | territorial_extent = [[England and Wales]]{{efn|Preamble.}} | royal_assent = 27 May 1803 | commencement = 27 May 1803{{efn|name=aopca|The [[Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793]].}} | repeal_date = 11 August 1875 | replaces = {{ubli|[[Families of Militiamen Act 1793]]|[[Families of Militiamen, etc. Act 1794]]|[[Families of Militiamen Act 1795]]|[[Families of Militiamen, etc. Act 1796]]}} | repealing_legislation = [[Militia (Voluntary Enlistment) Act 1875]] | related_legislation = | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5qZFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA730 | collapsed = yes }} The '''{{visible anchor|Relief of Families of Militiamen Act 1803}}''' ([[43 Geo. 3]]. c. 47) consolidated and amended enactments relating to the militia, in recognition of the hardship militiamen's families could be placed in when they were balloted.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AS - Records of the Administration of Aberdeenshire |url=https://archives.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AS/AMil |access-date=2025-09-21 |website=archives.aberdeencity.gov.uk}}</ref>
Britain's increasing overseas troop commitments during the [[Napoleonic Wars]] resulted in growing pressure on recruitment for the militia, both for home defence and as a feeder for the army. During the period to 1815, 110,000 men transferred to line regiments as against 36,000 prior to 1802.<ref>Knight, Roger. ''Britain against Napoleon.'' p.439.</ref> The militia continued to serve as a coastal defence force, as well as guarding dockyards and prisoners of war, and performing other duties including riot control during the [[Luddite]] unrest of 1811–1813. It was disembodied in 1815 but balloting continued until 1831.<ref>Knight, p.469.</ref>
===List of militia regiments=== An incomplete list includes: {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} *[[Royal Anglesey Militia|Anglesey Militia]] *[[Bedfordshire Militia]] *[[Berkshire Militia]] *[[Brecknockshire Militia]] *[[Buckinghamshire Militia]] *[[Cambridgeshire Militia]] *[[Cardiganshire Militia]] *[[Carmarthenshire Militia]] *[[Carnarvon Militia]] *[[Royal Denbigh Rifles|Denbigh Militia]] *[[Derbyshire Militia]] *[[Devon Militia]] (four regiments) *[[Dorset Militia]] *[[Militia and Volunteers of County Durham|Durham Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Flintshire Militia]] *[[Glamorgan Militia]] *[[Gloucestershire Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Hampshire Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Herefordshire Militia]] *[[Hertfordshire Militia]] *[[Huntingdonshire Militia]] *[[Isle of Wight Militia]] *[[Kent Militia]] (two regiments) {{col-break}} *[[Lancashire Militia|Royal Lancashire Militia]] (seven regiments) *[[Leicestershire Militia|Leicestershire]] *[[Royal London Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Middlesex Militia]] (five regiments) *[[Royal Montgomeryshire Militia]] *[[Norfolk Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Northampton Militia]] *[[Northampton and Rutland Militia]] *[[Northumberland Militia]] *[[Nottinghamshire Militia]] *[[Oxfordshire Militia]] *[[Radnorshire Militia]] *[[Rutland Militia]] *[[Somerset Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Suffolk Militia]] (two regiments) *[[Surrey Militia|Royal Surrey Militia]] (three regiments) *[[Sussex Militia]] *[[Royal Wiltshire Militia]] *[[Warwickshire Militia]] *[[Worcestershire Militia]] *[[East York Militia]] *[[North York Militia]] {{col-break}} {{col-end}}
==Scottish Militia== [[File:Drawing for the Militia.png|thumb|[[Drawing for the Militia|1849 painting]] of men being mustered into the militia in the 1790s]]
In the late 17th century, while the [[Kingdom of Scotland]] was still an independent country sharing a monarch with England, there were calls for the resurrection of the country's militia, with the understated aim of protecting the rights of Scots in Great Britain.<ref>Andrew Fletcher (1698) [https://www.constitution.org/fletchr/fletchr.htm ''A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias''], {{ISBN|0-521-43994-9}}</ref> A historical account of the debate which followed on Fletcher's work is given in John Robertson's 1985 ''The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Scottish Enlightenment And The Militia Issue |last=Robertson |first=John |year=1985 |publisher=[[John Donald Publishers|J. Donald]] |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0-85976-109-3 |oclc=13358513 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/scottishenlighte0000robe }}</ref>
During the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]] in Scotland, militias were raised in [[Argyll]], the [[Isle of Skye]] and the northern counties. They are often confused with [[Loudon's Highlanders]] regiment and the [[Independent Highland Companies]] who also supported the Government.<ref name="MacLeod">{{cite book |last=MacLeod |first=Ruairidh |year=1984 |title=Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness |url=https://archive.org/details/tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984/page/n1/mode/2up |volume=LIII |page=[https://archive.org/details/tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984/page/309/mode/2up 310] |access-date=August 4, 2023|quote=Wider research led me to discover confusion about the role of Lord Loudoun's new highland regiment, raised in 1745; the independent companies, raised for the duration of the rebellion, and the militia companies raised during the rebellion. There still remains work to be done on the role of the militia companies raised for short periods during the rebellion in Argyll, Skye and the northern counties}}</ref> The [[Campbell of Argyll Militia]] also known as the ''Campbell militia'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Scobie |first=Ian Hamilton Mackay |year=1946 |title=The Argyll or Campbell Militia of 1745–1746 |publisher=[[Society for Army Historical Research]]}}</ref> the ''Argyll militia'',<ref name="Pollard1">{{cite book |last=Pollard |first=Tony |author-link=Tony Pollard (archaeologist) |year=2009 |title=Culloden: The History and Archaeology of the last Clan Battle |location=[[South Yorkshire]] |publisher=[[Pen and Sword Books]] |page=71|isbn=978-1-84884-020-1}}</ref> or the ''Argyllshire men'',<ref name="Pollard1"/> was an [[Irregular military|irregular]] militia unit formed in 1745 by [[John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll]] to oppose the rising.<ref name="Barnes1">{{cite book |last=Fremont-Barnes |first=Gregory |year=2014 |title=The Jacobite Rebellion 1745–46 |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]]|page=27}}</ref><ref name="McKerracher">{{cite book |last=McKerracher |first=Mairead |year=2013 |title=Jacobite Dictionary |publisher=Neil Wilson Publishing |page=<!--no page numbers-->}}</ref>
Following the merger of Scotland into the new Kingdom of Great Britain, the British Militia Act 1757 did not apply in Scotland. There the traditional system continued, so that militia regiments existed in some places and not in others. This was resented by some, and the Militia Club, soon to become the [[Poker Club]], was formed in [[Edinburgh]] to promote the raising of a Scottish militia. This and several other Edinburgh clubs became the crucible of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]].
The Militia Act 1797 empowered the [[Lord Lieutenant]]s of Scotland to raise and command militia regiments in each of the "Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places" under their jurisdiction. At first the act was opposed due to some believing the militia ballot would be used to enable the Crown to remove men from Scotland.<ref>Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay (1914). ''An Old Highland Fencible Corps The History of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders, 1794–1802, With an Account of Its Services in Ireland During the Rebellion of 1798''. p. 3</ref>
===List of militia regiments=== Ten regiments of 'North British Militia' were raised in April 1798 under the 1797 Act:<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15009/page/333 ''London Gazette'', 21–24 April 1798.]</ref> {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * [[Argyll and Bute Militia#French Revolutionary War|1st (Argyllshire)]] * [[Highland Rifle Militia|2nd (Ross-shire)]] * 3rd (Lanarkshire) * 4th (Dumfrieshire) * [[Fifeshire Militia#Fifeshire Militia|5th (Fifeshire)]] {{col-break}} * 6th (Aberdeenshire) * 7th (Ayrshire) * [[Forfar and Kincardine Militia#Forfar and Kincardine Militia|8th (Forfarshire)]] * 9th (Perthshire) * [[Queen's Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia#10th North British Militia|10th (Edinburgh)]] {{col-break}} {{col-end}}
These regiments were disbanded in 1802 after the [[Treaty of Amiens|Peace of Amiens]], but new regiments (several of them continuations of the original 10) were raised the same year under the [[Militia (Scotland) Act 1802]].<ref>Maj R.C. Dudgeon, ''History of the Edinburgh, or Queen's Regiment Light Infantry Militia (now) Third Battalion The Royal Scots'', Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1882/Bibliolife, nd, {{ISBN|978-1-10368643-8}}.</ref> When these were embodied in 1803 they were assigned precedence numbers by lot in the same sequence as the English and Welsh militia regiments. From then on they form part of the history of the [[Militia (United Kingdom)|United Kingdom Militia]].<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44227944 W.Y. Baldry, 'Order of Precedence of Militia Regiments', ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'', Vol 15, No 57 (Spring 1936), pp. 5–16.]</ref>
=={{anchor|Ireland}}<!-- [[Irish Militia]] redirects here-->Irish militia== The earliest history of the militia in Ireland dates to the Cromwellian period with the raising of two regiments of militia in Dublin in May 1659.<ref name="Garnham">{{cite book |last1=Garnham |first1=Neal |title=The Militia in Eighteenth-century Ireland: In Defence of the Protestant Interest |date=2012 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=978-1-84383-724-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lB1vsTaIKC4C |language=en}}</ref> In 1666 during the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] the establishment of a national militia was begun. This started as a proposal from [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]] to [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond]] the then [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]].<ref name="Ferguson81">{{cite web |last1=Ferguson |first1=Kenneth Patrick |title=The army in Ireland from the Restoration to the Act of Union |url=https://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/77144 |website=edepositIreland |publisher=Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History |access-date=21 August 2024 |language=en |date=1981}}</ref> Orrey was Lord President of Munster<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barnard |first1=T. C. |title=Boyle, Roger |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/boyle-roger-a0859 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |doi=10.3318/dib.000859.v1 |date=1 October 2009|doi-access=free }}</ref> and the establishment of militia was the most advanced there, this was partially driven by fears of a Dutch attack on Kinsale.<ref name="Ferguson81" /> Ormonde however in general wasn't hugely enthusiastic about the militia given the large number of Cromwellian [[Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652|settlers]] within it. As a result the militia was established on an ad-hoc basis and was only called out three times during the period in 1666, 1672 (renewal of war with Dutch) and 1678 ([[Popish Plot]] – where they were used to disarm the Catholic population). It would subsequently be disarmed itself however in 1685 during the [[Monmouth Rebellion]] by [[Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell]].<ref name="Ferguson81" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=McGuire |first1=James |title=Talbot, Richard |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/talbot-richard-a8460 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |doi=10.3318/dib.008460.v1 |date=1 October 2009|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gillespie |first1=Raymond |title=Seventeenth-century Ireland: making Ireland modern |date=2006 |publisher=Gill & Macmillan |location=Dublin |isbn=978-0-7171-3946-0 |pages=280–283 |url=https://archive.org/details/seventeenthcentu0000gill/page/280/}}</ref>
{{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Militia Act (Ireland) 1715 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Ireland | long_title = An Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful. | year = 1716 | citation = [[2 Geo. 1 (I)|2 Geo. 1]]. c. 9 (I) | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 20 June 1716 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = {{ubli|[[Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879]]}} | related_legislation = | status = repealed | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Militia Act (Ireland) 1793 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Ireland | long_title = An Act for amending and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Militia in Ireland. | year = 1793 | citation = [[33 Geo. 3 (I)|33 Geo. 3]]. c. 22 (I) | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 9 April 1793
| commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = [[Militia (Ireland) Act 1809]] | related_legislation = | status = repealed | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} As a result of the ad-hoc nature of its formation the legal position of the pre-existing Militia in Ireland was only finally formalised when the [[Parliament of Ireland]] passed an [[act of parliament|act]], the '''{{visible anchor|Militia Act (Ireland) 1715}}''' ([[2 Geo. 1 (I)|2 Geo. 1]]. c. 9 (I)), in 1716<ref>{{cite web |title=An Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful. (2 Geo I c.9 (1715)) |url=https://librarycollections.law.umn.edu/irishlaws/2Geo1Ch9.html |website=librarycollections.law.umn.edu |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref> raising regiments of militia in each county and [[county corporate]]. Membership was restricted to [[Protestant]]s between the ages of sixteen and sixty. In 1793, during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the Irish militia were reorganized by the '''{{visible anchor|Militia Act (Ireland) 1793}}''' ([[33 Geo. 3 (I)|33 Geo. 3]]. c. 22 (I)) to form thirty-eight county and city regiments. While officers of the reorganized force were all Protestants, membership of the other ranks was now opened up to members of all denominations, including Roman Catholics. The provisions of the act called for lists to be drawn up of eligible men in each locality and with enlistees been drawn by ballot. The result of this was to cause widespread discontent in Ireland resulting in riots and close to 230 deaths over an eight week period.<ref name="Barlett83">{{cite journal |last1=Bartlett |first1=Thomas |title=An End to Moral Economy: The Irish Militia Disturbances of 1793 |journal=Past and Present |date=1983 |issue=1 |pages=41–64 |doi=10.1093/past/99.1.41 |url=https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/99/1/41/1442173 |access-date=24 June 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
===List of militia regiments===
This is a list of militia regiments as raised after the passing of the Militia Act (Ireland) 1793. The regimental numbers were assigned by ballot on 8 August 1794.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richey |first1=Henry Alexander |title=A Short History of the Royal Longford Militia, 1793-1893 |date=1894 |publisher=Hodges, Figgis, and Company, limited |location=Dublin, Ireland |pages=83–84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7FGAQAAMAAJ&dq=irish%20militia%20regiments%201793&pg=PA83 |access-date=17 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The four smaller counties corporate (towns of [[Carrickfergus (barony)|Carrickfergus]] and [[Galway (barony)|Galway]], cities of [[Kilkenny (barony)|Kilkenny]] and [[Waterford]]) were part of the adjoining county-at-large for militia purposes. {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} * 1st Monaghan Regiment * 2nd [[Royal Tyrone Fusiliers|Tyrone Regiment]] * 3rd Mayo North Battalion * 4th Kildare Battalion * 5th Louth Battalion * 6th Westmeath Battalion * 7th Antrim Regiment * 8th Armagh Regiment * 9th Down Regiment * 10th Leitrim Battalion * 11th Galway Regiment * 12th Dublin City Regiment * 13th Limerick City Battalion * 14th Kerry Regiment * 15th Longford Battalion * 16th Londonderry Regiment * 17th [[Royal Meath Militia|Meath Regiment]] * 18th Cavan Battalion * 19th [[King's County Royal Rifle Militia|King’s County Regiment]] {{col-break}} * 20th Kilkenny Regiment * 21st Limerick County Regiment * 22nd Sligo Battalion * 23rd Carlow Battalion * 24th Drogheda Battalion * 25th Queen’s County Battalion * 26th [[Clare Militia|Clare Battalion]] * 27th Cork City Regiment * 28th [[Tipperary Militia|Tipperary Regiment]] * 29th [[Fermanagh Light Infantry Militia|Fermanagh Battalion]] * 30th Mayo South Battalion * 31st Roscommon Regiment * 32nd Cork South Regiment * 33rd Waterford Regiment * 34th Cork North Regiment * 35th Dublin County Battalion * 36th Donegal Regiment * 37th Wicklow Battalion * 38th Wexford Regiment {{col-break}} {{col-end}}
==Channel Islands== * [[Royal Alderney Militia]] * [[Royal Guernsey Militia]] * [[Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey]] * Royal Sark Militia
==See also== * [[Fencibles]] * [[British Volunteer Corps]] * [[Militia (British Dominions and Crown Colonies)]] * [[Militia (United Kingdom)]] * [[Yeomanry Cavalry]]
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{reflist}} ;Bibliography * {{cite book | last=Beckett | first=Ian Frederick William | title=Britain's Part-Time Soldiers: The Amateur Military Tradition: 1558–1945 | publisher= Pen & Sword Military | location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire | year= 2011 | isbn=978-1-84-884395-0 }} * Knight, Roger. Britain against Napoleon * Western, J. R. The English militia in the eighteenth century
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last1=Bartlett |first1=Thomas |last2=Jeffery |first2=Keith |title=A Military History of Ireland |date=9 October 1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-62989-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MPZiWhhAmXAC |language=en}} *Cookson, J. E. ''The British armed nation 1793–1815.'' Oxford, 1997. *Fortescue, J. W. ''The county lieutenancies and the army, 1803–1814''. London, 1909. * {{cite book |last1=Garnham |first1=Neal |title=The Militia in Eighteenth-century Ireland: In Defence of the Protestant Interest |date=2012 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=978-1-84383-724-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lB1vsTaIKC4C&dq=irish%20militia&pg=PP1 |language=en}} *Gee, Austin. ''The British volunteer movement 1794–1814''. Oxford, 2003. *Knight, Roger. ''Britain against Napoleon: the organization of victory 1793–1815''. London, 2014. * {{cite book |last1=McAnally |first1=Sir Henry William Watson |title=The Irish Militia, 1793-1816: A Social and Military Study |date=1949 |publisher=Clonmore and Reynolds |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyMvAAAAIAAJ&q=irish+militia |language=en}} * {{cite journal |last1=McDonnell |first1=Ciarán |title='Zeal and Patriotism': Forging Identity in the Irish Militia, 1793-1802 |journal=Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=June 2019 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=211–228 |doi=10.1111/1754-0208.12612 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.12612 |access-date=14 August 2024 |language=en |issn=1754-0194|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=Ivan F. |title='The first chapter of 1798'? Restoring a military perspective to the Irish Militia riots of 1793 |journal=Irish Historical Studies |date=November 2003 |volume=33 |issue=132 |pages=369–386 |doi=10.1017/S0021121400015893 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-historical-studies/article/abs/first-chapter-of-1798-restoring-a-military-perspective-to-the-irish-militia-riots-of-1793/D36A1C94E3F789FE03298756F48DAF4D|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Ivan F. |title=The Irish Militia, 1793-1802: Ireland's Forgotten Army |date=2007 |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |isbn=978-1-84682-037-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGL5AgAACAAJ |language=en}} * {{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Stuart |title=Armies of the Irish Rebellion 1798 |date=20 September 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-84908-939-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GVfDCwAAQBAJ |language=en}} *Western, J. R. ''The English militia in the eighteenth century: the story of a political issue 1660–1802''. London, 1965.
==External links== * [http://www.cariwave.com/regiments_of_the_british_west_indies_and_bermuda.htm Regiments of the British West Indies and Bermuda]
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