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Army of the United Netherlands
Napoleonic Army Handbook - The British Army and her Allies, Richard Partridge and Michael Oliver. Constable, London 1999.

Chapter the third is entitled "The Dutch-Belgian Army."

Page 101 - "Immediately prior to the "Hundred Days", the armies began to reorganise and started from a mixture of troops from Belgium (known as the Belgian Legion and deriving from a brief period when the territory reverted to Austrian control) and Holland and its colonies in East India and the West Indies..."

All regiments were placed in one of three officially distinct categories: Dutch, Belgian and Dutch East Indian.

For example, from the cavalry: 1st Carabiniers (Dutch), 2nd Carabiniers (Belgian), 3rd Carabiniers (Dutch) - 4th Light Dragoons (Dutch), 5th Light Dragoons(Belgian) - 6th Hussars (Dutch), 7th Hussars (Dutch East Indian), 8th Hussars (Belgian).

The regular infantry were similarly organised, however, the militia infantry was entirely Dutch.

In an entirely official sense the army of the United Netherlands was indeed "Dutch-Belgian" in that its units were either Dutch or Belgian in origins and name.Urselius (talk) 13:51, 1 January 2011 (UTC)