1790-1850

These prints were published in 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn and drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman, Royal Corps of Signals (1910-1982). They are 24.5 x 37.5 cm (9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″) on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm2 faced in light greyish blue (RGB: d4e1e9), backed in white. Shown here are scans of the prints.
These prints are STANDARD size. See shipping charges for up to 10 prints at Shipping & Returns

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Officer, 9th Foot, 1790 (Royal Norfolk)
£12.50
The Royal Norfolk Regiment amalgamated into the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Light Company, Royal Fusiliers, 1790
£12.50
The Royal Fusiliers were merged into The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Office, 1st Guards, 1790 (Grenadier Guards)
£12.50
Named The Grenadier Guards after the Battle Waterloo, 1815; Part of the Guards Division (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Light Company, 12th Foot, 1796 (Suffolk Regiment)
£12.50
The Suffolk Regiment merged with the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1959 before being amalgamated into the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, 56th Foot, 1801 (Essex Regiment)
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The Essex Regiment was ultimately merged into the 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Quartermaster Sergeant, 2nd Foot, 1802 (Queen’s Royal Regiment)
£12.50
The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was ultimately merged into The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires) in 1964 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Private, 57th Foot, 1811 (Middlesex Regiment)
£12.50
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) merged into The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires) in 1992 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Private, 4th Battalion, 60th Regiment, 1812 (King’s Royal Rifle Corps)
£12.50
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps was merged into The Rifles in 2007 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Sergeant, Grenadier Company, 1st Guards, 1815 (Grenadier Guards)
£12.50
Named The Grenadier Guards after the Battle Waterloo, 1815; Part of the Guards Division (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Grenadier Company, 19th Foot, 1819 (Green Howards)
£12.50
The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) became part of the Yorkshire Regiment in 2006 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Grenadier Company, Coldstream Guards, 1821
£12.50
The Coldstream Guards, part of the Guards Division (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Battalion Company, Coldstream Guards, 1821
£12.50
The Coldstream Guards, part of the Guards Division (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Field Officer, 43rd Light Infantry, 1823 (The Green Jackets)
£12.50
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (aka the Ox and Bucks) merged with The Green Jackets before amalgamating into The Rifles in 1992 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Field Officer, 94th Foot, 1824 (Connaught Rangers)
£12.50
The Connaught Rangers were disbanded on Irish independence in 1922 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, Light Company, 45th Foot, 1831 (Sherwood Foresters)
£12.50
The Sherwood Foresters amalgamated with other regiments to form the Mercian Regiment in 2007 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1966 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Infantry: Napoleon to the Peninsular Wars

By 1790 the army was in a very bad state owing to political neglect, but the shock of the Napoleonic wars, beginning in 1793, pulled it together. By 1815, when Napoleon was finally defeated at Waterloo, it was an efficient fighting force. After 1815 the army was again neglected, but not to the previous extent. The interest of George IV and William IV was largely sartorial. By 1846 individual regiments were reasonably efficient, but administration was appalling, as the war in the Crimea would demonstrate. The late 18th century saw the army involved in North America, which showed the inadequacy of our infantry training. In 1770 a light company was added to each battalion. Infantry tactics became far more flexible.
Sir John Moore organised the Light Brigade, which became the Light Division, and they had a great influence on infantry training. Moore also insisted that his officers know his men well – as had General Wolfe in Canada. Close contact between officers and men became something of which the army is proud. Barracks were built to house the men – the improvement in morale was immediate and striking. At the end of the eighteenth century the army was fighting Napoleon, in Spain and Portugal, engaged in India, and, owing to Pitt’s policy of ‘filching sugar islands’, garrisons had to be found for the West Indies. Losses in India and the West Indies were appalling, dysentery, cholera and yellow fever almost, on occasions, destroying whole battalions. These men, given the proper lead which they got from such commanders as Moore and Wellington, formed a body which in its day was unsurpassed.

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