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Napoleon Series Archive 2014

Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs. London Pub Nov 1 1798 at Ackermann's Gallery 101 Strand:

"The phenomenon of the volunteer corps arose as a response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by the French Napoleonic forces.
Rudolph Ackermann notes in his introduction that 'At this moment, the enemy had advanced their best regulated legions to the shores of the British Channel;
and for the determined purpose of spreading through our land such miseries as have already rendered wretched their own'.
The British response was immediate and defiant, and Ackermann goes on to note that when the Loyal Volunteers of London
were inspected by the King on 21st June 1799 the roll-call of volunteers, manning 11 different positions, totaled just over 12,200 men."

Full list of plates (pp.375-378):
http://books.google.com/books?id=4njqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA375

Infantry: 79 plates:

6 - London & Westminister. Dismounted Ligh tHorse Volunteer:
http://www.donaldheald.com/pictures/18014-2.jpg

33 - Guildhall Infantry Volunteer:
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/images/GuildhallLightInfantry.jpg
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/EwellVolunteers.html An interesting presentation of this units formation and thereafter.

35 - Chelsea Volunteer.:
http://www.donaldheald.com/pictures/18014-3.jpg

71 - Whitechapel Association:
http://www.donaldheald.com/pictures/18014-4.jpg

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Cavalry: 9 plates:

1 - London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers:
. https://www.flickr.com/photos/93069768@N02/8459888383/in/set-72157632760239650 (click on image to enlarge)
. https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8097/8468940476_642bd6af3e.jpg
2 - Surrey Yeomanry:
. https://www.flickr.com/photos/93069768@N02/8460988264/in/set-72157632760239650
3 - Deptford Cavalry:

4 - Westminster Cavalry Volunteer:
. http://www.wikigallery.org/paintings/236501-237000/236842/painting1.jpg
5 - Middlesex Cavalry:

6 - Southwark Cavalry:
. http://www.donaldheald.com/pictures/medium/18014.jpg
7 - Clerkenwell Cavalry (1798). The British Museum (1927,1126.1.2.1. 25x20 cm.:
. http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN01114/AN01114669_001_l.jpg
8 - Lambeth Cavalry:
. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dAHy5goyL.jpg
9 - Loyal Islington Volunteer Cavalry:
. https://www.flickr.com/photos/93069768@N02/8471033754/in/set-72157632760239650

Thomas Rowlandson. Loyal volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry, in their respective uniforms. Representing the whole of the manual, platoon, & funeral exercise, in 87 plates (1799). [2], viii, [92] p., 35 cm. 87 plates B&W only:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/113756546/Loyal-Volunteers-of-London-and-environs-Infantry-Cavalry-in-their-respective-Uniforms-1799

The reproduction (weight - 4.9 pounds):

http://www.amazon.com/Volunteers-London-Environs-Thomas-Rowlandson/dp/0238789772

Prior NSDF post:

http://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archive2013_config.pl?md=read;id=146259

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