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Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 22.04.2005
FRENCH & NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1793-1815
West Indies Campaigns
1803-1815
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours 		  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
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   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
   Commanders
 
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   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in bold face) 		Regiments
(regiments awarded Battle Honours are shown in bold face)
Note: Battle Honours were awarded as noted below.
signifies clasp to campaign medal.
1803 June 22
St Lucia 1803
awarded 1818-1821;
date added 1909
Inf: ?/F1 F64 F68 WIR3 BlackPioneers
 
1803 June 30
Tobago
Inf: ?/F1 F64 WIR3 BlackPioneers
 
1803 Sep. 20
Demerara and Essequebo
Inf: 1/F1 F3(det) F7(det) F64 WIR(det)
 
 
Bernice
Inf: F64
 
1804 Jan.
Curaçao
   
 
1804 Apr. 26-
   1804 May 5
Surinam
(Fort Amsterdam)
awarded 1818 & 1898
Inf: F16 2/F60(RifCoy) F64 WIR6 BlackPioneers(det)
 
1805 Feb. 22
Dominica
awarded 1808
Inf: F46 WIR1
Inf: DominicaM
Inf: BarbadosM(det)
 
1806 July
St. Kitts
Inf: F11 F70
Inf: StKittsM
 
1807 Jan. 1
Curaçao
Inf: RM
 
1807 Sep.
Baracoa
(Cuba)
Inf: 1/F96(det) RM
 
1807 Dec. 21-25
Danish Indies
(St. John, St. Thomas, St. Croix)
Inf: 1/F15(det) F46(det) F60 F70(flankcoys) WIR1 WIR3(flank coys) BlackPioneers
 
1808 Mar. 2
Marie-Galante
Inf: RM
 
1808 Mar. 30
La Désirade
Inf: RM
 
1808 July 4
St. Martin's
Inf: RM
 
1808 Aug. 19-
   1808 Sep. 3
Marie-Galante
Inf: WIR1(3coys) RM
 
1809 Jan. 14
French Guyana
Inf: RM
also Portuguese colonial forces (Brazil)
 
1809 Jan. 30-
   1809 Feb. 24
Martinique 1809
awarded 1816-1819;
date added 1909; clasp: "Martinique"
Inf: 1/F7 1/F8 F13 1/F15 F23 1/F25(flankcoys) F46 F60 1/F63 F90 WIR1 WIR4 WIR8(8coys) RYorkRangers YorkLIVols
 
1809 Feb. 1-2 Morne Bruneau
Inf: 1/F7 1/F8 F23 WIR
 
1809 Apr. 14-17 The Saints
Inf: 1/F15(det) F60 WIR3 WIR8(det) YorkLIVols RYorkRangers(flankcoys)
 
1809 July 7 Santo Domingo
Inf: 2/F18(det) F54 F55 F60 WIR2 WIR7
also Spanish colonial forces
 
1810 Jan. 28-
   1810 Feb. 4
Guadeloupe 1810
awarded 1817-1819;
date added 1909; clasp: "Guadeloupe"
Inf: 1/F1 F13 1/F15 1/F25 F46 2/F60(flankcoys) 4/F60(grencoy) 1/F63(det) F70 F90 1/F96 WIR1(LtCoy) WIR2(LtCoy) WIR3(LtCoy) WIR4 WIR6 WIR8 RWIRangers RYorkRangers YorkLIVols
 
1810 Feb. 15
St. Martin's
Inf: 1/F25 WIR4(1coy)
 
1810 Feb. 21
St. Eustatius
Inf: 1/F25 WIR4(1coy)
 
1815 Aug. 9-10 Guadeloupe
Inf: 1/F15 1/F25 1/F63 RWIRangers RYorkRangers YorkChass
  • The Last Fight for Napoleon, by Denis Haggard (Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, v. 14, no. 56 (Winter 1935), pp. 231-2)
1803-1815 West Indies
Inf: 1/F1 2/F1 1/F7 F13 1/F15 F16 1/F18 1/F25 F46 F54 2/F60 4/F60 1/F63 F64 F68 F70 F85 F90 1/F96 WIR1 WIR2 WIR3 WIR4 WIR6 WIR8 RWIRangers RYorkRangers YorkChass YorkLIVols
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
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