surprisingly large number of Sussex militiamen were prosperous enough to be electors and claimed their statutory leave of absence to return home to vote in this election.) The regiment spent the summer of 1781 under Pelham's command stationed at Winchester. The Duke of Richmond was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in March 1782, with Thomas Pelham in the subordinate post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. The Treaty of Paris ending the war having been agreed, the Sussex Militia were disembodied in March 1783. From 1784 to 1792 the militia were assembled for their 28 days' annual peacetime training, but to save money only two-thirds of the men were actually mustered each year. French Revolutionary War The Sussex Militia were re-embodied on 11 March 1792, before Revolutionary France declared war on Britain. During the French Wars the militia were employed anywhere in the country for coast defence, manning garrisons, guarding prisoners of war, and for internal security, while the regulars regarded them as a source of trained men if they could be persuaded to transfer. Their traditional local defence duties were taken over by the part-time Volunteers and mounted Yeomanry. While encamped in 1796 the Sussex Militia introduced a scientific plan for feeding its men, using special boilers invented by SirBenjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Some of the men were trained as cooks and served in rotation under the pay sergeants for each company, who purchased vegetables in season from the bread allowance and the men's own contributions. The men were well fed and there was great saving of fuel. In 1796 the Government created the Supplementary Militia, a compulsory levy of men to be trained in their spare time, and to be incorporated in the Militia in emergency. Sussex's additional quota was fixed at 1160 men. When the Supplementary Militia was mobilised in 1798 Richmond wanted them to be added to the existing regiment, but they were formed into a separate 2nd regiment in 1799, when the existing regiment was numbered 1st. Napoleonic Wars The Sussex Militia was disembodied April 1802 after the Treaty of Amiens. However, the Peace of Amiens was short-lived, and the militia were called out again: the Sussex were embodied (as a single regiment) on 5 May 1803. Although Richmond and Pelham wanted the militia to remain local, they resumed the round of coast defence and garrison duties across the country, and increasingly became a source of