This is a list of British units which took part in the

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(1775–1783), fighting against the American rebels and their French,

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and

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allies in the thirteen North American colonies, including battles in

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and the

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. In addition to the regular army the list includes German auxiliary units (known collectively as Hessians), and militia and provincial units formed from

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, West Indians, and Canadians. No

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s were ever awarded to British regiments who fought in America as it was seen by the British to be a

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. 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 The 23rd Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army which existed several times. 1st existence It was created in 1781 as the 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons by Sir John Burgoyne, Bt. at Bedford but renumbered in 1786 as the 19t ...

and the 73rd and 78th Foot, survived the post-war reductions in the Army. The 23rd Light Dragoons (later the

19th Light Dragoons The 19th Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army created in 1781 for service in British India. The regiment served in India until 1806, and in North America during the War of 1812, and was disbanded in Britain in 1821. History G ...

) served in India until 1806; the 73rd (renumbered 71st in 1786) later became part of the

Highland Light Infantry The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fus ...

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

. 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 The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served under various titles and served in many wars and conflicts from 1685 to 1958, such as the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1958 ...

(Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the

25th Foot The King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. On 28 March 2006 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Ow ...

(King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the

36th Foot The 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1701. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Worcestershire Regiment in 1881. It ...

at Herefordshire, the 39th Foot at East Middlesex, the

41st Foot The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1719. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Welch Regiment in 1881. History Early his ...

, the 51st Foot and the

81st Foot The 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot to form the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in ...

. The 78th Foot, the 83rd Foot and the

95th Foot The 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1823. Under the Childers Reforms, it amalgamated with the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters in 1881 ...

were stationed in

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, 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 Regular Army

Artillery

Royal Regiment of Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

** 4th Battalion (battalion raised and based in the

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) * Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery (did not fight as a unit, but as drafts for British forces)

Cavalry

16th The Queen's Lancers The 16th The Queen's Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers to form the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922. History Early wars ...

a.k.a. the 16th (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons * 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

Infantry

Foot Guards

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(raised from drafts of

1st Regiment of Foot Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment ...

Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the protection of the monarchy; due to this, it often participates in state ceremonia ...

, and

3rd Regiment of Foot Guards The Scots Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642, although it was only placed on the ...

) * 1st Battalion * 2nd Battalion

Line Infantry

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* 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) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. It was known as the 7th Regiment of Foot until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in many wars ...

* 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 The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was the final title of a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was originally formed in 1688. After centuries of service in many conflicts and wars, including both the First and Second World W ...

17th Regiment of Foot 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...

* 18th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot * 19th Regiment of Foot * 20th Regiment of Foot *

21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers) The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Ma ...

* 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 The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1694. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Re ...

* 29th Regiment of Foot *

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* 31st Regiment of Foot * 33rd Regiment of Foot * 34th Regiment of Foot * 35th Regiment of Foot *

37th Regiment of Foot The 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Ireland in February 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot to become the Hampshire ...

* 38th Regiment of Foot * 40th Regiment of Foot * 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot * 43rd Regiment of Foot *

44th Regiment of Foot The 44th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment in the British Army, raised in 1741. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot to form the Essex Regiment in 1881. History Early history The regim ...

45th Regiment of Foot The 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1741. The regiment saw action during Father Le Loutre's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War as w ...

* 46th Regiment of Foot * 47th Regiment of Foot * 48th Regiment of Foot * 49th Regiment of Foot *

50th Regiment of Foot The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot to form the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regime ...

* 52nd Regiment of Foot * 53rd Regiment of Foot * 54th Regiment of Foot * 55th Regiment of Foot * 57th Regiment of Foot *

59th Regiment of Foot The 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1755 in response to the threat of renewed war with France. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment ...

60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United St ...

* 62nd Regiment of Foot *

63rd Regiment of Foot The 63rd Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms, it amalgamated with the 96th Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881. History Formation and service in the Seven Years' War The fo ...

64th Regiment of Foot The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was created as the 2nd Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot in 1756, redesignated as the 64th Regiment of Foot in 1758, and took a county title ...

* 65th Regiment of Foot * 69th Regiment of Foot *

70th Regiment of Foot The 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment in 1881. History Formation The fo ...

(Glasgow Lowland) *

71st Regiment of Foot (Frasers Highlanders) The 71st Regiment of Foot was a regiment of infantry raised in 1775, during the American Revolutionary War and unofficially known as Fraser's Highlanders. It was disbanded in 1786. History Formation The regiment was raised at Inverness, Sti ...

* 74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot *

76th Regiment of Foot (Macdonald's Highlanders) The 76th Regiment of Foot (MacDonald's Highlanders), sometimes referred to as 'MacDonnell's Highlanders' after its colonel, John MacDonnell of Lochgarry, was a Scotland, Scottish Light Infantry regiment raised in the west of Scotland and western ...

* 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) The 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) was a British regiment in the American Revolutionary War that was raised to defend present day Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada from the constant land and sea attacks by American Revolutiona ...

(Loyalist) * 105th Regiment of Foot, (ex Volunteers of Ireland) * 110th Regiment of Foot, (ex

King's American Regiment The King's American Regiment, also known as the "Associated Refugees", were a Loyalist regiment during the American Revolutionary War. The King's American Regiment was raised on Staten Island in the Province of New York in December 1776 by Colon ...

) ;Regiments stationed in the West Indies * 85th Regiment of Foot (Westminster Volunteers) * 86th Regiment of Foot (Rutland Regiment) *

87th Regiment of Foot (1779) The 87th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised to help garrison the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War. History The regiment was raised at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire by George Waldegrave ...

* 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)

H.M. Marine Forces

* 1st Battalion * 2nd Battalion

American establishment

* 1st American Regiment (formerly the

Queen's Rangers The Queen's Rangers, also known as the Queen's American Rangers, and later Simcoe's Rangers, were a Loyalist military unit of the American Revolutionary War. Formed in 1776, they were named for Queen Charlotte, consort of George III. The Queen ...

) (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 The New York Volunteers, also known as the New York Companies and 1st Dutchess County Company, was a British Loyalist Provincial regiment, which served with the British Army, during American Revolutionary War. Eventually, the New York Volunteer ...

) (1776-1783) * 4th American Regiment (formerly the

, 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)

American 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), (

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s, 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 Butler's Rangers (1777–1784) was a Loyalist provincial military unit of the American Revolutionary War, raised by American loyalist John Butler. Most members of the regiment were Loyalists from upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania. Th ...

(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 De Lancey's Brigade, also known as De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, and the "Cowboys" or "Cow-boys", was a Loyalist British provincial military unit, raised for service during the Ame ...

(1776–1783) * Detroit Volunteers (claimed descent from Roger's Rangers, later became

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Regiment,

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) (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 (

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/ 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 *

(placed on American establishment, in 1781, as 4th American Regiment, part of the regular,

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) (1776–1783) * King's Rangers * King's (Carolina) Rangers * King's Orange Rangers *

King's Royal Regiment of New York The King's Royal Regiment of New York, also known as Johnson's Royal Regiment of New York, King's Royal Regiment, King's Royal Yorkers, and Royal Greens, were one of the first Loyalist regiments, raised on June 19, 1776, in British Canada, duri ...

* 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 *

(placed on American establishment, as 3rd American Regiment in 1779) * North Carolina Highlanders *

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* Pennsylvania Loyalists * Philadelphia Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778) * Prince of Wales's American Volunteers * Provincial Light Infantry *

(placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 1st American Regiment, descended from Roger's Rangers) *

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(1777–1778) *

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* 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 The Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment, also known as the Loyal Regiment of Nova Scotia Volunteers and Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers, from 1775-1780, the Royal Regiment of Nova Scotia Volunteers, from 1780-1783, and the Royal Nova Scotia Volun ...

* 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

and

New Jersey Volunteers The New Jersey Volunteers, also known as Jersey Volunteers, "Skinners", Skinner's Corps, and Skinner's Greens (due to their green wool uniform coats), were a British provincial military unit of Loyalists, raised for service by Cortlandt Skinner, ...

and placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 2nd American Regiment, part of the regular,

) (1778–1782) * Volunteers of New England * West Florida Royal Foresters * West Jersey Volunteers

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* Charleston Militia (1780–1782) * Charleston Volunteer Battalion (1780–1782) *

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(1775–1784) * East Florida Militia (1776–1783) * Georgia Artillery (1781–1782) * Georgia Militia (1779–1782) * German Independent Company, (part of

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) (1776–?) *

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(also, known as Black Pioneer Troop) (1782) * Loyal Commissariat Volunteers (1779–1782) * Loyal Ordnance Volunteers (1780) *

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(also, known as

) (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) *

(1776–1783) *

New York Independent Highland Volunteers New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz Albums and EPs * New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartn ...

(1776–1783) * New York Marine Artillery Company (1780–1783) *

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(1776–1783) *

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(1776–1783) *

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(1781–1782) *

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(1775–1784) *

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(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) *

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s ( light cavalry) (1777) * West Florida Militia (1778–1781)

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

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* 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

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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) *

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(1776) * Queen's Loyal Rangers (1777–1781) * Queen's Loyal Virginia Regiment (absorbed by

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)

Associators and Refugees

* Associated Loyalists (1780–1782) * Black BrigadeNewland, Samuel J. The Pennsylvania Militia:Defending the Commonwealth and the nation, 1669–1870 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs (2002)pp36-45Black Loyalists:Our History, Our People. Canada's Digital Collection. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. ( Black Loyalists) (1779–1783) * Brant's Volunteers (1777–1779) * De Lancey's Refugees (1776–1783) * Hatfield's Company of Partisans ( partisan

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) (1779–1782) * Hazard's Corps of Refugees (1780–1782) *

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(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

) (1780–1782?) * Royal North British Volunteers (1775–1776) * Sharp's Refugee Marines (

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- naval-based infantry force) (1779) * Uzal Ward's Company of Refugees (1780–1783)

West Indian Forces

* Barbados Militia * Barbadian Rangers (1781–1783) * Black Carolina Corps * Grenada Militia (1775–1779) *

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(also, known as the Jamaica Corps and Amherst’s Corps) (1781–1783) *

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* 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 Auxiliaries

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 The Principality or Margraviate of (Brandenburg-)Ansbach (german: Fürstentum Ansbach or ) was a principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Franconian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margrave ...
and Bayreuth

* 1st Regiment Anspach (later Regiment von Volt; 1st Anspach Battalion) * 2nd Regiment Bayreuth (later Regiment Seybothen; 2nd Anspach Battalion) * Anspach Jäger Company

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* Dragoon Regiment Prinz Lüdwig Ernst * Grenadier Battalion Breymann *

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* 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 Woellwarth (1777); von Trümbach (1779); d'Angelelli (1781)) ** 1st Battalion Grenadiers von Linsing ** 2nd Battalion Grenadiers von Block (later von Lengerke) **

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(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 *

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* Pausch's Company of Artillery

Principality of Waldeck The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and in 1 ...

* 3rd Waldeck Regiment

References

* Baer, Friederike. ''Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War'' (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Website
. * Katcher, Philip, ''Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783'', 1973,
''History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies''
(in German)

* ttp://www.regiments.org Regiments.org
Revwar75 - Crown Forces

the King's Own Patriots

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* 18th-century history of the British Army

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Principality of Waldeck The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and in 1 ...

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Margrave of Ansbach The Principality or Margraviate of (Brandenburg-)Ansbach (german: Fürstentum Ansbach or ) was a principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Franconian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margrave ...
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