Foreign Troops—
Loyal Emigrants, York Rangers, Rohan’s Regiment.
[266] The flank companies of these battalions were in the West Indies.
| Officers | N.C.O.’s and men. | |
| British Cavalry | 165 | 4,350 |
| Hanoverians and Hessians | 168 | 2,939 |
| Total Cavalry | 333 | 7,289 |
| British Infantry | 583 | 21,170 |
| Hanoverians and Hessians | 322 | 8,722 |
| Total | 1,238 | 37,181 |
Total of all arms, including artillery, etc., say, 1300 officers, 40,000 N.C.O.’s and men.
[267] Craig to Nepean, 5th August 1794; Ditfurth, ii. 213 seq.; Memorandum of the Duke of York, 23rd December 1794; Calvert, pp. 385–386; see vol. ii. of this History, p. 88.
[268] No officer could hope to master these mysteries without the help of two fat little duodecimo volumes called The Regimental Companion, and a third and slighter volume entitled Military Finance.
[269] Craig to Nepean, 31st August; Craig’s Memorandum of 23rd December 1794.
[270] Sunday Reformer, 29th December 1793.
[271] Craig to Nepean, 12th and 31st August, 5th and 8th September 1794. The class of medical officer obtained by Government is described in Autobiography of Sir J. M’Grigor, pp. 93, 94.