Third Brigade--Brigadier-General McLean: 90th Light Infantry (2nd Scottish Rifles), 8th West India Regiment, and a battalion composed of the light companies of all the regiments present in the West Indies.
Fourth Brigade--Brigadier-General Skinner: 13th (Somerset Light Infantry), 63rd (Manchesters), and the York Rangers (a colonial corps).
Second Division: Major-General Harcourt, who also commanded the Third Brigade, which consisted of the 15th (East Yorkshire), 3rd West India Regiment, and a second light infantry battalion.
Third Brigade--Brigadier-General Barrow: 25th (King's Own Scottish Borderers), 2nd West India Regiment, and a battalion composed of the grenadier companies of the regiments present.
Reserve Brigade--Brigadier-General Wale, under whom were placed a battalion composed of the grenadier companies of the regiments in the West Indies, a detachment of the York Rangers, and 300 artillerymen.
CASUALTIES AT THE CAPTURE OF GUADELOUPE, 1810.
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +---------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Staff | - | 2 | - | - | |Royal Artillery | - | - | 1 | 3 | |13th Somerset L.I. | - | 1 | 5 | - | |East Yorkshire | - | 1 | - | - | |40th Cornwall L.I. | - | - | - | 3 | |King's Roy. R. | - | 2 | 4 | 11 | |63rd M'chesters | - | - | - | 1 | |90th Scottish Rifles | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | |West India Regiments | - | 4 | 7 | 84 | |York Rangers | 4 | 5 | 28 | 102 | +---------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
In the year 1847 the General Service Medal was granted to the survivors of this expedition, with a special clasp inscribed "Guadeloupe."
In the year 1814, on the conclusion of the war with France, Guadeloupe was once more restored; but on the escape of Napoleon from Elba it threw off its allegiance to Louis XVIII., and declared for the Emperor. Once more an expedition was organized for its reduction, and though the futility of resistance was pointed out, the garrison, by its unnecessary loyalty to a dead cause, compelled the General to resort to force. The command of the 1815 expedition was entrusted to Major-General Leith, the regiments selected being the East Yorkshires, who have participated in every expedition to the West Indies since the year 1759; the King's Own Scottish Borderers; the 63rd (Manchesters); and the local West India Regiments. The only casualties were--