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France 1795[edit]
Ireland 1803[edit]
Invasion of Capri
Persian Gulf 1809[edit]
Illyria 1813-1814[edit]
Germany 1813[edit]
A second British expeditionary corps was dispatched to Northern Germany in 1813 during the War of the Sixth Coalition, with the the intention to secure the strategically important Baltic Ports. The corps was placed under the command of Major-General Samuel Gibbs who established his headquarters at Stralsund. The expeditionary corps consisted of six infantry battalions, as well as available elements of the King's German Legion and Royal Horse Artillery. During the campaign in Germany, units of the KGL cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery participated successfully in the actions at Göhrde, Leipzig and Sehested.
Holland 1813-1814[edit]
In December 1813, the British government sent an expeditionary corps to Holland under Sir Thomas Graham to campaign alongside a Prussian army with the intention of pushing the French army from Flanders. Graham's corps participated successfully in the attacks on Hoogstraten and Antwerp. An attempt to capture the fortress of Bergen op Zoom was then made by Graham shortly before the conclusion of the war. The attack, on 8 March 1814, failed and the British were repelled, with heavy losses.[1]
Italy 1814[edit]
In January 1814 a British expeditionary force set out from the island of Scilly under the command of Lord William Bentinck. Sicily had been a British Mediterranean base since it's conquest in 1806. Bentinck's corps initially landed in Livorno and an armistice was negotiated with Joachim Murat which brought the Kingdom of Naples to the side of the Coalition in return for a guarantee of it's continued existence. Bentinck then issued a proclamation to the rest of Italy announcing the arrival of British troops and asking the populace to submit peacefully to the Allies. With his corps reinforced by Italian and Sicilian regiments Bentinck advanced north to Genoa and in April 1814 invested the city in a siege. The city was surrendered to Bentinck after five days of Siege and bombardment. British troops entered the city on 18th April and Bentinck negotiated the restoration of the ancient Republic of Genoa. Following which Lord Bentinck dispatched a force to the nearby island of Corsica which was occupied by British troops until the end of the war.
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