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Wikipedia May 9, 2026 at 06:13 AM

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Eine der ersten Militärpolizeitruppen, die Royal Military Police, wurde unter Wellington in der Britischen Armee für die Expedition 1807 in Portugal aufgestellt.
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This conflates the Royal Military Police with its predecessors and gives the wrong date. Official histories say today’s Royal Military Police traces its origins to 1855, while Wellington’s earlier army-wide police force was the Staff Corps of Cavalry created in 1813, not in 1807.

Full reasoning

The sentence is inaccurate in two ways:

  1. It misidentifies the unit. The British Army’s own institutional histories do not say the Royal Military Police was created in 1807. The National Army Museum states that today’s Royal Military Police traces its origins back to 1855, when the Mounted Military Police was formed at Aldershot. It further explains that the corps only later evolved into the Corps of Military Police (1926) and received the "Royal" prefix in 1946.

  2. It gives the wrong Wellington-era date. The AGC Museum’s history of British military police says that in 1813 Wellington ordered the creation of the Staff Corps of Cavalry to act as a police force for the army. That is the relevant Napoleonic-era predecessor — not the Royal Military Police, and not in 1807.

So the article sentence incorrectly labels a later corps as if it already existed in 1807, and it places Wellington’s police formation six years too early. A more accurate formulation would distinguish the 1813 Staff Corps of Cavalry from the later Royal Military Police, whose lineage is officially traced to 1855.

2 sources
  • Corps of Royal Military Police | National Army Museum

    In 1810, a Staff Corps of Cavalry was created to supplement the work of the Provost Service during the Peninsular War (1808-14)... Today's Royal Military Police traces its origins back to 1855, when the Mounted Military Police was formed... It was granted a 'Royal' prefix in 1946.

  • Adjutant General's Corps Museum | POLICE

    In 1813, Wellington ordered the creation of the Staff Corps of Cavalry to act as a Police force within the whole army at home and on campaign until it was disbanded in 1818.

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