The Dutch Emigrant Artillery Corps was a mercenary unit of the British Army raised in Hanover in 1795.
The Dutch Emigrant Artillery was then formally established on 8 December 1795, with now major Nacquard in command.
On 15 December the unit embarked at Stade for England, and by the end of the month it had arrived at the Isle of Wight.
There they were assigned to a brigade under Sir John Moore, together with La Tour's Royal Foreigners and Hompesch's hussars.
The Corps embarked for the West indies in March 1796 and arrived at Môle-Saint-Nicolas at the beginning of June.
After numerous false starts aborted by weather issues, the fleet sailed on 26 April to invade St Lucia, with troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
In May 1797 the British, including the 2nd Company, attacked Mirebalais and Grand-Bois and recaptured them from Toussaint Louverture, who had expelled his rivals there.
Major de Nacquard in 1798 brought out to San Domingo a draft of troops drawn from the 3rd company.
In 1798 the companies served with distinction in the defense of the fort at Les Irois, and at Jérémie in the Grand'Anse department.
[1] The third company, under the command of Captain de Ménard, left England in October on the armed merchantman Achilles, bound for Jamaica.
On 3 December 1799, in the latitude of San Domingo, they encountered and engaged the French privateer Entreprenante.