Reserve Brigade: The 3rd and 4th Battalions of the King's Royal Rifles and the 4th West India Regiment.
This force disembarked on January 30 at St. Luce Bay, on the western coast of the island, and on the following day took possession of the town of Trinité without opposition.
First Brigade—Colonel Riall: 63rd (Manchesters) and the York Rangers (a colonial corps which did most excellent service in our West India campaigns).
Second Brigade—Major-General Maitland: 15th (East Yorkshire), the flank companies of the 46th (Cornwall Light Infantry), the 8th West India Regiment, and a body of local volunteers, known as the York Light Infantry.
Reserve Brigade—Colonel Macnair (90th): 90th (Scottish Rifles) and the 3rd West India Regiment.
This force disembarked on the south of the island, near the Three Rivers—a spot at which considerable fighting had taken place in our previous descents on the island—and here again Maitland encountered some resistance. But his brigades, working over the hills to the left, effected a junction with the Commander-in-Chief, and by February 4, thanks to the effective co-operation of the fleet, the French Governor surrendered.
Amongst the trophies were the colours, or rather the eagles, of the 62nd and 80th Regiments of the French line. One of these fell to the Royal Fusiliers, the other to the 90th, and the Commander-in-Chief selected Captain Wilby, of the 90th, to carry these trophies to England and depose them at the feet of the King. These were the first eagles to be received in England, and His Majesty was pleased to command that they should be escorted in state by the regiments of the Household Brigade to St. Paul's Cathedral, where they were received with all due solemnity. In the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria these eagles were removed to the chapel of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, where they may be seen to this day.
Casualties at the Capture of Martinique, 1809.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| Roy. Fusiliers | 1 | 2 | 36 | 119 |
| 8th K. Liverp. | 1 | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| R. Welsh Fus. | 0 | 1 | 19 | 101 |
| 90th Scot. Rifles | - | 2 | 8 | 31 |
| W. India Regt. | - | - | 2 | 19 |
| L.I. Battalion | 1 | 5 | 26 | 71 |
In the year 1847, when the late Queen Victoria granted a medal to the survivors of the wars against France, Martinique was included in the list of campaigns for which the medal was to be conferred, and a special clasp "Martinique" was issued with both the military and naval General Service Medal.