- Source: List of British units in the American Revolutionary War
This is a list of British units in American Revolutionary War which took part in the conflict, fighting against the American rebels and their French, Spanish and Dutch allies in the Americas, Europe and Asia. In addition to the British Army, the list includes German auxiliary units along with provincial and irregular units formed raised in North America and the West Indies. No battle honours were ever awarded to British regiments who fought in America as it was seen by the British to be a civil war. Four battle honours were, however, awarded for actions against the French and Spanish in the West Indies and other theatres.
Of the British Army regiments raised during the war, primarily for military service in North America or the Caribbean, only three, the 23rd Light Dragoons and the 73rd and 78th Foot, survived the post-war reductions in the Army. The 23rd Light Dragoons (later the 19th Light Dragoons) served in India until 1806; the 73rd (renumbered 71st in 1786) later became part of the Highland Light Infantry while the 78th (renumbered 72nd in 1786) became part of the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) in 1881. The newly raised 85th Foot, 86th Foot, 87th Foot, 88th Foot, 89th Foot, 90th Foot, 91st Foot, 92nd Foot, 93rd Foot, 94th Foot and 99th Foot were stationed on garrison duty in the West Indies. All were disbanded at the end of the war.
Infantry units which remained in the British Isles during the war included the 2nd Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)), the 11th Foot (Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the 36th Foot at Herefordshire, the 39th Foot at East Middlesex, the 41st Foot, the 51st Foot and the 81st Foot. The 78th Foot, the 83rd Foot and the 95th Foot were stationed in Jersey, where they defeated a French invasion of the island in 1781 (the Battle of Jersey). Other regiments were in service in India or Gibraltar.
British Army units
= Cavalry
=16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
= Infantry
=Foot guards
Brigade of Foot Guards (raised from the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards and 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards)
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Regular infantry
1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot
3rd Regiment of Foot or "Buffs" and "Royal East Kent Regiment"
4th (The King's Own) (Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
5th Regiment of Foot (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers)
6th Regiment of Foot (Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers)
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
9th Regiment of Foot (East Norfolk Regiment)
10th Regiment of Foot (Royal Lincolnshire Regiment)
13th Regiment of Foot (Prince Albert's) (Somerset Light Infantry)
14th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Own) (West Yorkshire Regiment)
15th Regiment of Foot (Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot) (East Yorkshire Regiment)
16th Regiment of Foot
17th Regiment of Foot
18th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
19th Regiment of Foot
20th Regiment of Foot
21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers)
22nd Regiment of Foot (Cheshire Regiment)
23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
24th Regiment of Foot
26th Regiment of Foot
27th (Enniskillen) Regiment of Foot
28th Regiment of Foot
29th Regiment of Foot
30th Regiment of Foot
31st Regiment of Foot
33rd Regiment of Foot
34th Regiment of Foot
35th Regiment of Foot
37th Regiment of Foot
38th Regiment of Foot
40th Regiment of Foot
42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot
43rd Regiment of Foot
44th Regiment of Foot
45th Regiment of Foot
46th Regiment of Foot
47th Regiment of Foot
48th Regiment of Foot
49th Regiment of Foot
50th Regiment of Foot
52nd Regiment of Foot
53rd Regiment of Foot
54th Regiment of Foot
55th Regiment of Foot
57th Regiment of Foot
59th Regiment of Foot
60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot
62nd Regiment of Foot
63rd Regiment of Foot
64th Regiment of Foot
65th Regiment of Foot
69th Regiment of Foot
70th Regiment of Foot (Glasgow Lowland)
71st Regiment of Foot (Frasers Highlanders)
74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot
76th Regiment of Foot (Macdonald's Highlanders)
79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)
80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)
82nd Regiment of Foot (1777)
83rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)
84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) (Loyalist)
85th Regiment of Foot (Westminster Volunteers)
86th Regiment of Foot (Rutland Regiment)
87th Regiment of Foot (1779)
88th Regiment of Foot (1779)
89th Regiment of Foot (1779)
90th Regiment of Foot (Yorkshire Volunteers)
91st Regiment of Foot (Shropshire Volunteers)
92nd Regiment of Foot (1779)
93rd Regiment of Foot (1780)
94th Regiment of Foot (1780)
99th Regiment of Foot (Jamaica Regiment)
= American establishment
=1st American Regiment (formerly the Queen's Rangers) (1756–1783)
2nd American Regiment (formerly the Volunteers of Ireland, placed on British establishment, in 1782, as 105th Regiment of Foot) (1778-1784)
3rd American Regiment (formerly the New York Volunteers) (1776-1783)
4th American Regiment (formerly the King's American Regiment, placed on British establishment, in 1782, possibly as the 110th Regiment of Foot) (1776-1783)
5th American Regiment (formerly the British Legion, placed on British establishment, in 1782, as Tarleton's Dragoons) (1777-1782)
= His Majesty's Marine Forces
=1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Loyalist units
= Provincial Corps
=American Legion (1780–1783)
American Volunteers (1779–1780)
Armed Boat Company (1781–1783)
Black Company of Pioneers (also, known as the Black Pioneers, later merged into the Guides and Pioneers in 1778), (pioneers, another name for military construction engineers) (1777–1778)
British Legion (placed on American establishment in 1781 as 5th American Regiment) (1777–1778)
Bucks County Dragoons (absorbed by British Legion in 1780) (1778–1780)
Butler's Rangers (1777–1784)
Caledonian Volunteers (formed part of the British Legion in 1778) (1777–1778)
Campbell's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
Canadian Companies (1777–1783)
Claus' Rangers (1775–1783)
Collett's Independent Company (1777)
De Lancey's Brigade (1776–1783)
Detroit Volunteers (claimed descent from Roger's Rangers, later became 1st Battalion 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National Guard) (1778–1783)
Diemar's Troop of Black Hussars (also, known as Diemar's Hussars and Black Hussars), hussars, (light cavalry) (1779–1781)
Duke of Cumberland's Regiment (1781–1783)
Duchess County Company (1776–1777)
Emmerich's Chasseurs (chasseurs / light cavalry) (1777–1779)
Fenwick's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
Forshner's Independent Company (1780–1781)
Georgia Light Dragoons (there was also, a Local Volunteer Corps unit, of the same name) (1779–1781)
Georgia Loyalists (1779–1782)
Governor Wentworth's Volunteers (1777–1781)
Guides and Pioneers (absorbed the Black Company of Pioneers in 1778) (1778–1783)
Harkimer's Batteau Company (1780–1783)
Hierlihy's Corps
James Island Light Dragoons
King's American Dragoons
King's American Regiment (placed on American establishment, in 1781, as 4th American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1776–1783)
King's Rangers
King's (Carolina) Rangers
King's Orange Rangers
King's Royal Regiment of New York
Kinloch's Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778)
Locke's Independent Company
Loyal American Rangers (1780–1783)
Loyal American Regiment
Loyal Foresters
Loyal New Englanders
Loyal Rangers
Loyal Rhode Islanders
Maryland Loyalists Battalion
McAlpin's Corps (also, known as McAlpin's Corps of Royalists, absorbed the American Volunteers, King’s Loyal Americans, Queen’s Loyal Rangers, and Adams' Rangers)
Nassau Blues
Newfoundland Regiment (placed on British establishment in 1782)
New Hampshire Volunteers
New Jersey Volunteers (Skinner's Greens)
Newport Artillery Company (Rhode Island) 1741
New York Volunteers (placed on American establishment, as 3rd American Regiment in 1779)
North Carolina Highlanders
North Carolina Independent Company
North Carolina Independent Dragoons
Pennsylvania Loyalists
Philadelphia Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778)
Prince of Wales's American Volunteers
Provincial Light Infantry
Queen's Rangers (placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 1st American Regiment, descended from Roger's Rangers)
Roman Catholic Volunteers (1777–1778)
Royal American Reformers
Royal Fencible Americans
Royal Garrison Battalion (placed on British establishment in 178
Royal Georgia Volunteers
Royal Highland Emigrants (placed on British establishment in 1779 as 84th Foot)
Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment
Saint John's Volunteers
Starkloff's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
South Carolina Rangers
South Carolina Royalists
Stewart's Troop of Light Dragoons
Van Alstine's Batteau Company
Volunteers of Ireland (absorbed the Roman Catholic Volunteers and New Jersey Volunteers and placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 2nd American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1778–1782)
Volunteers of New England
West Florida Royal Foresters
West Jersey Volunteers
= Local Volunteer Corps
=Adams Company of Rangers (also, known as Adams' Rangers) (1777–1780)
Bay Fusiliers (also, known as Mosquito Shore Volunteers and Black River Volunteers) (1779–?)
Bucks County Volunteers (1778–1783)
Detroit Volunteers (1778–1783)
Dunlop's Corps (1780–1781)
East Florida Rangers (1776–1779)
East Florida Volunteers (1777–1780)
Ethiopian Regiment (1775–1776)
Georgia Light Dragoons (there was also, a Provincial Corps unit, of the same name) (1781–1782)
Georgia Rangers (1773–1776)
Georgia Rifle Dragoons (1779)
King's Dock Yard Volunteers (1780)
King's Loyal Americans (1776–1781)
Loyal Volunteers of the City of New York, under the command of Mayor David Mathews
Mackay's Corps (also, known as Mackay’s Corps of Royalists, Pfister's Corps of Royalists, and Leake's Corps of Royalists) (1777–1781)
Mayor's Independent Company of Volunteers of New York City under the command of Loyalist Mayor David Mathews
McAlpin's Corps of Royalists (also, known as McAlpin's Corps and American Volunteers) (1777–1781)
Mosquito Shore Volunteers (also, known as Bay Fusiliers and Black River Volunteers) (1779–?)
Natchez Volunteers (1781)
Negro Volunteers (1779)
Newfoundland Volunteers (1779–1980)
North Carolina Volunteers (1776)
Queen's Loyal Rangers (1777–1781)
Queen's Loyal Virginia Regiment (absorbed by Queen's Rangers in 1776) (1776–1783)
Queen's Royal Rangers (1775–1776)
Rattan and Black River Volunteers (1780–1781)
Royal Bateaux Volunteers (bateau|batteux) (1779–1781)
Royal Ethiopian Regiment (disbanded) (1775–1776)
Virginia Light Horse (1776)
Virginia Volunteers (1781)
Volunteers of Augusta (1781–1782)
West Florida Provincials (1778–1781)
West Florida Refugees (1777–1781)
= Associator and Refugee units
=Associated Loyalists (1780–1782)
Black Brigade (Black Loyalists) (1779–1783)
Brant's Volunteers (1777–1779)
De Lancey's Refugees (1776–1783)
Hatfield's Company of Partisans (partisan irregulars) (1779–1782)
Hazard's Corps of Refugees (1780–1782)
James Stewart's Company of Refugees (1780–1781)
King's Militia Volunteers (1779–1780)
Loyal American Association (1775–1776)
Loyal Associated Refugees (1779)
Loyal Irish Volunteers (1775–1776)
Loyal Newport Associators (1777–1779)
Loyal Refugee Volunteers (1779–1782)
Maryland Royal Retaliators (1780–1781)
Pepperell's Corps (1779–?)
Robins Company of Partisans (partisan irregulars) (1780–1782?)
Royal North British Volunteers (1775–1776)
Sharp's Refugee Marines (marines - naval-based infantry force) (1779)
Uzal Ward's Company of Refugees (1780–1783)
= Militia units
=Charleston Militia (1780–1782)
Charleston Volunteer Battalion (1780–1782)
Detroit Militia (1775–1784)
East Florida Militia (1776–1783)
Georgia Artillery (1781–1782)
Georgia Militia (1779–1782)
German Independent Company, (part of New York City Militia) (1776–?)
Independent Troop of Black Dragoons (also, known as Black Pioneer Troop) (1782)
Loyal Commissariat Volunteers (1779–1782)
Loyal Ordnance Volunteers (1780)
Loyal Volunteers of the City of New York (also, known as New York City Militia) (1776–1783)
Massachusetts Militia (1775–1783)
Massachusetts Volunteers (1777–1783)
McDonald's Company of Volunteers (1778)
Minorca Volunteer Company (part of East Florida Militia) (1777–?)
New Jersey Militia (1776–1777)
New York City Militia (1776–1783)
New York Independent Highland Volunteers (1776–1783)
New York Marine Artillery Company (1780–1783)
New York Militia (1776–1783)
New York Rangers (1776–1783)
North Carolina Militia (1781–1782)
Nova Scotia Militia (1775–1784)
Nova Scotia Volunteer Militia Regiment (1776–1781)
Quebec City Militia (1775–1783)
Quebec Militia (1775–1783)
Saint Johns County Volunteers (1781)
South Carolina Militia (1775–1782)
South Carolina Volunteers (1781–1782)
Westchester Chasseurs (chasseurs (light cavalry) (1777)
West Florida Militia (1778–1781)
= West Indian units
=Barbados Militia
Barbadian Rangers (1781–1783)
Black Carolina Corps
Grenada Militia (1775–1779)
Jamaica Corps of Foot (also, known as the Jamaica Corps and Amherst’s Corps) (1781–1783)
Independent Companies (Jamaica)
Jamaica Legion (absorbed by Jamaica Volunteers in 1780) (1780)
Jamaica Light Dragoons (1780–1781)
Jamaica Militia (1780–1781)
Jamaica Rangers (1779–1783)
Jamaica Volunteers (absorbed the Jamaica Legion, after 1780) (1779–1781)
Turks Island Company (1781–1783)
German auxiliary units
= Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst
=Rauschenplatt's Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst's Regiment (2 battalions, 1 infantry in Quebec (1778), and 1 "Pandour" in New York (1780))
Nuppenau's Jäger Company
Company of Artillery
= Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth
=1st Regiment Anspach (later Regiment von Volt; 1st Anspach Battalion)
2nd Regiment Bayreuth (later Regiment Seybothen; 2nd Anspach Battalion)
Anspach Jäger Company
= Duchy of Brunswick
=Dragoon Regiment Prinz Lüdwig Ernst
Grenadier Battalion Breymann
Light Infantry Battalion von Barner
Musketeer Regiment Riedesel
Musketeer Regiment Specht
Regiment Prinz Friedrich
Regiment von Rhetz
von Geyso's Jäger Company
= Electorate of Hanover
=1st Battalion von Reden
1st Battalion von Hardenberg
1st Battalion la Motte
2nd Battalion Prinz Ernst von Mecklenburg
2nd Battalion von Goldacker
14th Regiment
15th Regiment
= Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
=Combined Regiment von Loos
Fusilier Regiment von Dittfurth
Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz (later Musketeer Regiment (1780))
Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen
Fusilier Regiment von Lossburg
Grenadier Regiment von Rall (later von Wöllwarth (1777); von Trümbach (1779); d'Angelelli (1781))
1st Battalion Grenadiers von Linsing
2nd Battalion Grenadiers von Block (later von Lengerke)
3rd Battalion Grenadiers von Minnigerode (later von Loewenstein)
4th Battalion Grenadiers von Koehler (later von Graff; von Platte)
Garrison Regiment von Bünau
Garrison Regiment von Huyne (later von Benning)
Garrison Regiment von Stein (later von Seitz; von Porbeck)
Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach (later von Knoblauch)
Jäger Corps
Leib Infantry Regiment
Musketeer Regiment von Donop
Musketeer Regiment von Trümbach (later Von Bose (1779))
Musketeer Regiment von Mirbach (later Jung von Lossburg (1780))
Musketeer Regiment Prinz Carl
Musketeer Regiment von Wutginau (later Landgraf (1777))
= County of Hesse-Hanau
=Janecke's Frei Corps of Light Infantry
Musketeer Regiment Erbprinz
Creuzbourg's Jäger Corps
Pausch's Company of Artillery
= Principality of Waldeck
=3rd Waldeck Regiment
See also
British Army during the American War of Independence
List of Regiments of Foot
List of British Army regiments (1881)
List of Continental Forces in the American Revolutionary War
References
Baer, Friederike. Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). Website. ISBN 9780190249632.
Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0
History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German)
List of British Loyalist Regiments - The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
Regiments.org
Revwar75 - Crown Forces
the King's Own Patriots
The Hessians in the Revolution
Specific
External links
Select Bibliography of British Participation in the American Revolutionary War compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
The Brigade of the American Revolution (BAR), Recreated British and Allied military units (Living History)
The Northwest Territory Alliance (NWTA), Recreated British and Allied military units (Living History)
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- List of French units in the American Revolutionary War
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- List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War
- List of wars involving the United States
- List of United States militia units in the American Revolutionary War
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