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A lot of myth obscures elementary facts about the British soldier of the 18th century.  And his role in the colonies.

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Re-printed from “The Valley Compatriot” Oct/Nov 1994
Donald Norman Moran, editor18th and early 19th century British soldiers

This force primarily consisted of infantry, a small artillery contingent and no cavalry. Six years of hard fighting later, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, the British Army in North America numbered 2,484 artillerymen, 39,294 infantry, and 6,869 cavalrymen, plus a few thousand contracted civilians.

Below: British soldiers today, on parade.

When you have men and women living together, you have children, and the British Army was no exception. The Children, like the wives, were fed out of the Regimental stores, and were generally well treated, although rarely provided any formal education. When old enough, they, like their mothers would help with camp chores.

As for the girls. They either chose a husband, with their fathers approval, or were turned out of the Regiments encampment. The girls also could be apprenticed.

Army widows of the day, and based on the high rate of casualties, there were many of them, were given a month to mourn their loss and find a new husband within the Regiment or she too would have to leave the camp. On foreign service the widows had little choice but to remarry.

Final resting place of two British soldiers at Concord, buried where they fell

The following is a listing of all of the British Regiments that participated in the American Revolution:

The British Soldier was a man to be respected and feared. For our ancestors to have faced them, and won, is almost unbelievable, but it makes that victory all the sweeter.

 

 

 

 

 

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