1758 - French invasion of Westphalia – British Contingent

Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Campaigns >> 1758 - French offensive in Westphalia >> British Contingent in Germany, August 1758

Description

Detailed order of battle of the British Contingent sent in Germany in 1758.

Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Duke of Marlborough

Summary: 6 bns, 14 sqns, 2 artillery coys for a total of 6,200 foot, 2,480 horse and 170 artillerymen; and a grand total of 8,850 men.

Cavalry

• Royal Horse Guards aka “The Blues” (3 sqns for a total of 29 officers and 360 men)
• 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards (3 sqns for a total of 30 officers and 540 men) under the command of Bland
• 3rd Dragoon Guards (2 sqns for a total of 21 officers and 360 men) under the command of Howard
• 2nd Royal North British Dragoons (2 sqns) under the command of Campbell
• 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (2 sqns)
• 10th Mordaunt's Dragoons (2 sqns)

Infantry (all bn consited of 36 officers and 998 men)

• 12th Napier's Foot (1 bn)
• 20th Kingsley's Foot (1 bn)
• 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers (1 bn)
• 25th Edinburgh's Foot (1 bn) under the command of William Home
• 37th Stuart's Foot (1 bn)
• 51st Brudenell’s Foot (1 bn) previously garrisoning Emden from March to August, when it joined the newly arrived contingent'

Artillery

• Royal Regiment of Artillery (2 coys for a total of 171 men)
• 42 pontoons arriving only in October

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 8 Zorndorf und Hochkirch, Berlin, 1910, Anlage 19