1806, ending the Anglo-Russian occupation and leaving the Neapolitan army to defend the kingdom on its own. The British fleet reached Messina on 22 January and the soldiers disembarked. British Expeditionary Force Lieutenant-General Sir James Henry Craig Advanced Corps: Brigadier-General John Brodrick Corsican Rangers (740 men) Battalion of light infantry Battalion of grenadiers Chasseurs Britanniques (645 men) First Brigade: Brigadier-General Wroth Palmer Acland 20th Regiment of Foot (801 men) 35th Regiment of Foot (1003 men) 61st Regiment of Foot (834 men) Second Brigade: Brigadier-General Galbraith Lowry Cole 27th Regiment of Foot (1063 men) 58th Regiment of Foot (973 men) de Watteville's Regiment (725 men) Royal Artillery (273 men) 2 light brigades 1 heavy brigade (4 howitzers, 4 12-pounders, 8 6-pounders) Ancillary units 2 squadrons of the 20th Light Dragoons (335 men) Staff Corps (20 men) Royal Engineers (19 men) Source: Aftermath After Austerlitz, Napoleon rallied his forces to punish Ferdinand's treason and take possession of all of southern Italy. French troops invaded and conquered the kingdom from 8 February to 18 July 1806. Further reading , Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805–1806. (1992). Pp. xi, 198. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. , The War in the Mediterranean, 1803-1810 (1957). External links Pagedas, Constantine A., 'Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805-1806 (review)' in Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2005, pp. 120–122. References Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars Invasions by the United Kingdom War of the Third Coalition Military history of Naples 1805 in Italy Military operations involving the United Kingdom Military operations involving Russia Naples Russian military occupations 1805 in the Kingdom of Naples 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom