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.
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Officer, Scots Fusilier Guards, 1831 (Scots Guards)
£12.50
The Scots Fusilier Guards were renamed the Scots Guards in 1877 (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, Rifle Brigade, 1831
£12.50
The Rifle Brigade was amalgamated 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, 13th Light Infantry, 1833 (Somerset Light Infantry)
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The Somerset Light Infantry became the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, then the Light Infantry before amalgamating 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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Officer, 76th Foot, 1837 (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment)
£12.50
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment amalgamated with other regiments with a Yorkshire connection to form the Yorkshire 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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Officer, 5th Fusiliers, 1846 (Northumberland Fusiliers)
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The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers amalgamated with the other fusilier regiments to form 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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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.

Officer, Scots Fusilier Guards, 1831 (Scots Guards)

Officer, Rifle Brigade, 1831

Sergeant, 13th Light Infantry, 1833 (Somerset Light Infantry)

Officer, 76th Foot, 1837 (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment)

Officer, 5th Fusiliers, 1846 (Northumberland Fusiliers)

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