Amount of ammunition typically carried by an C18th British redcoat
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From HERE
Sir,
Agreeable to Major General Mathew’s Order I send a Return of the Deficiencies
in the Seventeenth Company. We have at present one Cartridge Box for each man,
but as they hold eighteen Rounds only I shall be extremely thankfull for an Order
to compleat us to two per man.
I am Sir
with great Respect
Your most Obedt.
Humble Servant
George Cuppaidge
Capt. 17th Infy.”
So 18-36 rounds (if they had 2). The US Civil War cartridge box capacity was 40 rounds, as this was a Corps Symbol for one of the Western Armies.
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According to Major Adye's "Bombardier and Pocket Gunner" (2nd ed., London, 1802, page7)
The cartouche boxes of the [British] infantry are made of so many shapes and sizes, that it is impossible to say exactly what ammunition they may contain, but most of them can carry 60 rounds.
Also a table on page 79, notes that musket cartridges were carried in 'bundles' of 10.
Given the date of publication, it should apply to the infantrymen fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, at least.
Edit:
It would seem that the value of 60 rounds per man is confirmed by a general order (issued by the Duke of Wellington) at Villa Del Toro, 27th Sept 1812 which states
The stores of musket ammunition are necessarily limited, and the state of them is founded upon the certainty that every soldier has at all times in his possession sixty rounds
taken from "The General Orders of Field Marshal, the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814" (London, 1837, pg 8)
Edit2:
Bryan Fosten's "Wellington's Infantry 1" (Osprey Publishing, London, 1992, pg 24) gives the following description of the infantryman's cartridges stowage.
The [cartridge] pouch was fitted with a tin or wooden box split honeycomb-fashion into small rectangular sections into which the separate cartridges were inserted: 36 seems to have been the normal number...In the field an additional 24 cartridges could be carried in a 'magazine', a tin case covered in black leather carried 'on buff belts and buckles'
Which again, gives a total of 60 cartridges per man.
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