Battalions which served in the peninsular war as you can see the majority of british regiment involved sent 2 or more battalions. Our game should really name the british foot= british veterans, and 2nd battalion as british foot.
1st Guard 3
2nd Coldstream Guard Guard 2
3rd Scots Guard Guard 2
Line / Foot Regiment Name Type Btn Remarks
1st Royal Scots Line 4
2nd Queen's Royal Line 1
3rd East Kent, Buffs Line 2
4th King's Own Line 2
5th Northumberland Line 2
6th 1st Warwickshire Line 2
7th Royal Fusiliers Fusiliers 2
9th East Norfolk Line 2
10th North Lincolnshire Line 2 Sapherson (1991) says served in the Peninsular.
11th North Devonshire Line 2
14th Buckinghamshire
Bedfordshire until 1809 Line 3
20th East Devonshire Line 2
23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers Fusiliers 2
24th Warwickshire Line 2
26th Cameronian Line 2
27th Inniskilling Line 3
28th North Gloucestershire Line 2
29th Worcestershire Line 2
30th Cambridgeshire Line 2
31st Huntingdonshire Line 2
32nd Cornwall Line 2
34th Cumberland Line 2
36th Herefordshire Line 2
37th North Hampshire Line 1 Raised a 2nd Bn in 1811
38th 1st Staffordshire Line 2
39th Dorsetshire Line 2
40th 2nd Somersetshire Line 2
42nd Royal Highlanders Highland 2
43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry Light 2
44th East Essex Line 2
45th 1st Nottinghamshire Line 2
47th Lancashire Line 2
48th Northamptonshire Line 2
50th West Kent Line 2
51st 2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry Light 1
52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry Light 2
53rd Shropshire Line 2
57th West Middlesex Line 2
58th Rutlandshire Line 2
59th 2nd Nottinghamshire Line 2
5/60th Royal American Rifle 1 The 60th Royal American regiment had 6 battalions (Sapherson, 1991). Only the rifle armed battalion, 5/60th, served in the Peninsular. The rest of the regiment was in garrison in the West Indies.
61st South Gloustershire Line 2
62nd Wiltshire Line 2
66th Berkshire Line 2
67th South Hampshire Line 2 Sapherson (1991) says served in the Peninsular.
68th Durham Light Infantry Light 1
71st Highland Light Infantry Light 2
74th Highlanders Highland 1
76th Hindostan Line 1
77th East Middlesex Line 1
79th Cameron Highlanders Highland 2
81st Line 2
82nd Prince of Wales's Volunteers Line 2
83rd Line 2
84th York and Lancaster Line 2 Haythornthwaite (1995) says served in the Peninsular.
85th Bucks Volunteers Light Infantry Light 1
87th Prince of Wales's Own Irish Line 2
88th Connaught Rangers Line 2
89th Line 2 Haythornthwaite (1995) says served in the Peninsular.
90th Perth Volunteers Line 2 Sapherson (1991) says served in the Peninsular.
91st Line 2
92nd Gordon Highlanders Highland 2
94th Line 1
95th Rifles Rifle 3
97th Queen's Own Line 1
Foreign Regiment Name Type Btn Remarks
King's German Legion Line Battalions Line 8 All light companies carried rifles (Sapherson, 1991).
King's German Legion Light Battalions Light 2
Dillon's Line
De Watteville's Line
De Roll's Line The light company carried rifles (Haythornthwaite, 1995).
Chasseurs Britannique Line