[49] The Corps, which had been formed in 1737 by Colonel James Oglethorpe for service in Georgia and South Carolina, was disbanded in 1749. It had not been ranked in the number of regiments of infantry in the Official Records of the Army, although in some publications of that period it was numbered the Forty-second, regiment, according to its seniority and the date of its formation.

[50] A Fourth Division was formed at Woolwich by Order in Council dated 15th August, 1805.