page_title: Corps of Invalids (Great Britain)
section_title: During the reign of George I
hierarchical_section_title: Corps of Invalids (Great Britain) / History / During the reign of George I
caption_attribution_description: Pendennis Castle keep near Falmouth in Cornwall, taken from the south.
context_page_description: The Corps of Invalids was a British unit that provided garrison troops for the defence of England and Great Britain between 1688 and 1802. The men and officers were all veterans of the British Army chosen by the commissioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea to serve in lieu of a place at the hospital or receipt of a pension. The corps was rapidly expanded or decreased in size as needs arose and played a key role in regulating the manpower requirements of the British Army. The corps was organised into a number of independent companies that were garrisoned at key points in the country, freeing up units of the regular army for service overseas. The men were generally those who were too old or wounded to serve in the regular forces and most served at least six years with the corps. In the early years they wore a grey uniform but later wore the same red coat with blue facings as worn by the patients of the Chelsea Hospital.
  The original three companies of the corps were raised by James II in 1688 to bolster his defences against a feared invasion by William of Orange. However the units played no part in the defence of London during the Glorious Revolution of that year.
context_section_description: After the death of Queen Anne her second cousin and the new king George I of Hanover, feared a fresh Jacobite invasion.  To supplement the nation's defences 1,200 out-pensioners were called into the Invalid Corps, with 108 going to the garrison at Greenwich and 600 to Portsmouth.  Following the start of the 1715 Jacobite Uprising in Scotland 12 additional companies of invalids were raised on 2 August for garrison duty at Portsmouth.  A further four companies were raised on 13 August – two for duty at Plymouth and one each for Falmouth and Pendennis Castle.  As a means of ensuring loyalty the rate of pay of the invalids was raised to be on par with that of the line infantry.  The new companies comprised  a captain, a lieutenant, an ensign, two sergeants, two corporals, one drummer and fifty privates.
  The invalid companies at Plymouth appear to have been successful in deterring a planned landing by the Duke of Ormonde, who had hoped to raise forces sympathetic to the Stuarts in the West Country in September.  A large expansion of the Invalid Corps was carried out in 1719 which included the founding of Edmund Fielding's Regiment.
caption: Pendennis Castle was garrisoned by the corps during the Jacobite rising of 1715
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