While the 5/60th continued to recruit largely from foreigners throughout the period, recruiting for the Rifle Corps, later the 95th, soon changed from the original method of selecting men from other regiments. In February 1801 Coote Manningham sought to regularise the status of his regiment by recruiting in the usual way, and though this was at first rejected, in the following year it was permitted. Unlike some states, Britain had no reservoir of rifle-trained civilians upon which to draw, although it was proposed in 1807 that the South Hampshire Militia might be converted to a rifle corps, as 'a great proportion of our men coming from the New Forest and Forest of Bere ... are mostly expert marksmen, and from their early habits feel a partiality to that kind of service.' 20 Such men would make excellent riflemen, but the majority were recruited in the usual way, either directly from civilian life (see text to Plate D), or by attracting volunteers from the militia, a very important source of recruits in that such men were already trained in the use of arms and were used to military discipline. Recruits had to be at least 5 ft 2 in. tall; an analysis of 300 riflemen who fought at Waterloo established an average height of 5 ft 7 in., 21 and indeed Benjamin Harris stated that the smaller men withstood hard campaigning better than the tall. …… …………………… The 95th was so successful in recruiting that a 2nd Battalion could be formed in 1805 and a 3rd in 1809. In addition to ordinary recruits, during the later Peninsular War the 95th was permitted to enrol some ten or 12 Spaniards per company, who proved themselves as good soldiers as their British comrades. 这段文字很明显给出了95th的来源:1、国内常规征兵;2、半岛战争时吸收了些许西班牙人。但总体来说还是英国人为主体。