British Napoleonic Uniforms

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Five other regiments (the 51st, 68th, 71st, 85th and 90th) were subsequently converted to light infantry.

There was no formal command structure, and a variety of government departments controlled army units depending on where they were stationed; troops in Ireland were controlled by the Irish establishment, rather than the War Office in London, for example. Most British battalions carried flags known as "colours": the First, or "King's Colour", and the Second, or " Regimental Colour". The troops swore allegiance, both to the British Crown, and to the defunct States-General of the Netherlands, the former sovereign power in the Dutch Republic.dress consists of a dark blue stand collared tunic, matching trousers, and peaked cap, caubeen, or beret depending on the regiment. Scotland, which remained independent from England until the 1707 Acts of Union created the Kingdom of Great Britain, also raised a standing Scottish Army after the English Civil War (known in Scotland and Ireland as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms), which merged with the English Army in 1707 to create the British Army.

The other major British effort in the early French Revolutionary Wars was mounted against the French possessions in the West Indies. Cambridge blue: Army Air Corps including attached personnel and REME Aircraft trades, 47 Regiment Royal Artillery [28] any army personnel serving in an aviation unit.

The Household Division resumed wearing their scarlet and blue full dress in 1920, but for the remainder of the Army it was only worn by regimental bands, or else on certain limited social or ceremonial occasions (an example of the latter was the 1937 Coronation when mounted detachments from participating cavalry regiments were issued with full dress uniforms for the occasion). On exercises and operations the stable belt is replaced with a plain green field belt, with nylon Personal Load Carrying Equipment and the Osprey body armour vest with pouches attached using the PALS system being worn for load-bearing purposes.