Napoleon Series Archive 2017

Re: British Subsidies to Allies
In Response To: British Subsidies to Allies ()

SUBSIDY PAYMENTS 1793-1816
1793
Hanover
452,551
Hesse-Cassel
190,622
Sardinia
150,000

1794
Baden
20,196
Brunswick
17,659
Hanover
601,476
Hesse-Cassel
418,132
Hesse-Darmstadt
91,372
Prussia
1,200,000
Sardinia
200,000

1795
Austrian Loan
4,600,000
Baden
6,794
Brunswick
46,778
Hanover
340,192
Hesse-Cassel
317,492
Hesse-Darmstadt
85,224
Sardinia
150,000

1796
Brunswick
53,645
Hanover
3,736
Hesse-Darmstadt
62,651

1797
Austrian Loan
1,620,000
Brunswick
15,565
Hesse-Darmstadt
19,249
Portugal *
10,000

1798
Brunswick +
7,000
Portugal *
103,000

1799
Hesse-Darmstadt
none
Portugal *
87,675
Russia
1,386,070

1800
Austria
816,666
German Princes
1,066,667
Portugal *
10,000
Russia
537,126

1801
Austria
none
German Princes
200,000
Hesse-Cassel +
100,000
Portugal
200,000

1802
Hesse-Cassel +
33,451
Russia +
200,000

1803
Hanover +
110,155
Russia +
63,000
Portugal
none

1804
Hesse-Cassel +
83,303

1805
Austria
1,000,000
Hanover
26,190
Russia
300,000
Sweden
132,500

1806
Austria +
500,000
Hanover
76,865
Hesse-Cassel +
18,982
Russia +
50,000
Sweden
311,400

1807
Hanover
19,899
Hesse-Cassel
45,000
Prussia
187,613
Russia 1
614,183
Sicily 2
1,094,002
Sweden
248,128

1808
Portugal
140,156
Sicily
353,438
Spain
2,325,668
Sweden 3
1,094,023

1809
Austria
1,187,500
Portugal
539,369
Portuguese Loan
600,000
Sicily
313,836
Spain
473,919
Sweden
300,000

1810
Portugal
1,986,069
Sicily
425,000
Spain
557,952

1811
Portugal
1,832,168
Sicily
275,000
Spain
539,554

1812
Portugal
2,276,833
Sicily 4
628,532
Spain
1,036,598
Sweden 5
500,000

1813
Austria
700,000
Prussia
650,039
Portugal
2,486,012
Russia 6
1,058,436
Sicily
440,000
Spain
877,200
Sweden
1,334,992

1814
Austria
939,523
Denmark
121,917
Hanover
525,000
Portugal
1,345,082
Prussia 7
1,438,643
Russia 8
2,708,834
Sicily
316,666
Spain
1,820,932
Sweden
800,000

1815
Austria
1,654,921
Hanover
270,940
Portugal
54,915
Prussia 9
2,156,513
Russia 10
2,000,033
Sicily
33,333
Spain
147,295
Sweden
608,048
Minor Powers 11
1,723,727

1816
Austria
416,667
Russia
972,222
Sicily
117,748
Sweden
422,766

* Paid to agents in London for purchase of supplies.
+ Payments for claims arising out of past service.
1 £500,000 of this sum was due Russia from her 1805 treaty, while the balance was the value of arms sent her in 1807.
2 This is the total of all subsidies to Sicily between 1804 and 1807.
3 Of this amount, £94,023 is the value of arms sent that year.
4 Includes arms valued at £40,060.
5 Includes arms and credit in London, totalling £300,000.
6 Includes arms valued at £400,936.
7 Includes approximately £401,371 paid in ‘federative paper’.
8 Includes approximately £783,000 paid in ‘federative paper’.
9 Includes approximately £469,728 paid in ‘federative paper’.
10 Includes approximately £888,922 paid in ‘federative paper’.
11 These payments were completed in February 1816.

Guineas and Gunpowder British Foreign Aid in the Wars with France, 1793-1815, p. 365-368.
If I calculate correctly, the total number is £ 65,830,228.

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Best Regards
Wu Tian (Robert Woo)

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