[2] Lord George Beresford, a younger son of the Marquess, also held a captaincy in the regiment.
[4] It was part of a large wave of thirty new Irish regiments raised in 1793-94 following the British entry into the French Revolutionary Wars, totalling around 25,000 men; in 1795 there was a decision to disband all the highest-numbered regiments, with the men raised being drafted to other regiments for active service.
[5] The "old regiments", those on the pre-war establishment, were significantly understrength, and heavy demand for sailors for the Navy had limited the number of new recruits available for the Army.
Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881.
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