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This page is dedicated to (though not entirely about) the 95th (Rifle) Regiment of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

This is my first attempt at a web page. It starts with a hobby dating back some 25 years now. Who knows where it will end.

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." J.R.R. Tolkien

The 95th were an elite regiment, a totally new concept for the era. The men were issued with accurate, but slow loading "Baker" rifles, rather than muskets, and trained as snipers, skirmishers and scouts. They were given a dark green uniform with black accoutrements (rather than red with white) to give them some camouflage and the regiment had no "colours" or standards in the field since it was intended to fight as small detached units rather than as a battalion.

• How I got hooked on the 95th and other matters fictional
• A Brief history of the 95th with diversions into the main war
• The Sharpe Calendar
• Random shots from a non-Rifleman
• Thinking out loud
• Sources
• Electronic texts
• Updates
• Links
• Many "Thank You"s

The Rifles existed as the 95th (Rifle) Regiment for a little over 13 years from January 1803 (when the Rifle Corps was given a line number) to February 1816 (when it was removed from the line list, and honoured with the name "The Rifle Brigade") but in that time it created a legend.

"The first in the field and the last out of it: the bloody fighting ninety-fifth!"

Warning: These pages are under construction and are likely to be so indefinitely.

Who am I? My name is Sue Law, I live in Sydney, Australia, and I work at the Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney (part of the Australian Photonics CRC). I am middle aged and married with two daughters. I am a physicist by training, half engineer by career, a chronic bookworm and a dilettante historian when I feel like it. If you have any constructive criticisms, compliments or odd bits of information which I could include (with a source) please email me.

N.B. Due to illness and press of work, this site (and the email account) went neglected to the point where Yahoo shut the account down and I lost all my email records. I apologise to anyone to whose email I didn't respond.

Last update 27/12/05
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