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The First Colonial Soldiers: A Survey of British overseas territories and their garrisons, 1650 - 1714. Volume 2: The Americas and the Caribbean (Eindhoven: Drenth Publishing, 2015) Ferling, John E. Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America (1993), to 1763; Gallay, Alan, ed. Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763: An Encyclopedia ...
A detailed order of battle for British Army forces in North America circa October 1778 is as follows (about one-third of its then-strength is discounted due to disease, desertion, and other causes; the listed troops are solely effectives): New York garrison (17,452 effectives) 16th and 17th Light Dragoons (two regiments) Guards (two battalions)
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). Website. ISBN 9780190249632. Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0; History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German)
William Dalrymple commanded British troops in Boston when 3-400 civilians provoked 8 soldiers into firing their muskets without orders, killing five. Patriots subsequently publicized it heavily as the "Boston Massacre". He served as quartermaster general of the British Army in North America from 1779 to 1783.
The creation of an army establishment in America followed the British tradition which existed in Ireland and Britain and gave the chosen American regiments nominally equal status to regular British units. [4] In doing so the government hoped to encourage loyalist enlistment in the British army. [5]
Colonial troops may comprise local forces drawn from settlers in colonies where these were numerous. In the 18th century, militia units were raised in colonial America. A large portion of the forces maintained by Spain and Portugal in Central America and South America until the early 19th century were locally recruited.
Provincial troops were military units raised by colonial governors and legislatures in British North America for extended operations during the French and Indian Wars. The provincial troops differed from the militia, in that they were a full-time military organization conducting extended operations.
British Empire portal; Includes soldiers of British regiments and corps which were not on the British Army or British Indian Army establishments, including those in colonial North America. for commissioned officers see Category:British colonial army officers