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the 1st Battalion, 57th Regiment of Foot on the 9th May 1809 showed that Thirty Four percent of the unit were Irish, Four percent Scottish and the rest were Foreigners.[1]

the actual text reads "A return of the 859 NCOs and men of the 1st Battalion, 57th Regiment on 9 May 1809 showed that only sixty per cent were English. Thirty-four per cent were Irish, four per cent Scottish and the other two per cent were foreigner." (my emphasis) Uffindell, Andrew, The National Army Museum Book of Wellington's Armies, Britain's Campaigns in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, Sidgwick and Jackson, 2003, p. 157, citing H Woolwright, History of the Fifty-Seventh (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1755-1881 (London, 1893, p. 399