Note 213 — Chapter XII · INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE REGIMENT: THE RANK AND FILE
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When the 90th was raised in 1794, out of the 746 men 165 were English and 56 Irish—not much less than a third of the whole. Cf. Delavoye’s History of the 90th, p. 3. In the Waterloo campaign the 71st had 83 English and 56 Irish in its ranks.