The Royal African Corps was an infantry unit in the British Army officially established on 25 April 1804.
As Fraser’s Corps of Infantry, it had been earlier raised for the defense of the Island of Goree, Senegal in August 1800.
It was composed primarily of deserters and condemned men from the hulks, with some additional indigenous African soldiers being attached to make up numbers.
The remainder of the Corps continued to perform garrison duties in various African colonies until 1819, when the four companies serving in Sierra Leone and Gambia were disbanded.
By now recruited from foreigners as well as British Army deserters and convicts, the Corps was finally disbanded in 1821.