1701 – Operations in Germany – French OOB Tallard July

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Description

Tallard's French Army on the Moselle in July 1701.

Summary: 10 bns, 41 sqns

Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Comte de Tallard

Infantry (10 bns)

• Lyonnais (2 bns)
• Nice (1 bn)
• Clare (1 bn)
• Royal-Montferrat (1 bn)
• Peri (1 bn)
• Guyenne (1 bn)
• Perche (1 bn)
• Albemarle (1 bn)
• Grancey (1 bn)

Cavalry (35 sqns)

• Villequier (2 sqns)
• Noailles (2 sqns)
• Bourgogne (2 sqns)
• Brissac (2 sqns)
• La Ferronaye (2 sqns)
• Auvergne (2 sqns)
• Villeroy (2 sqns)
• Dauphin Étranger (3 sqns)
• Bourbon (2 sqns)
• Livry (2 sqns)
• La Vallière (2 sqns)
• Saint-Pouanges (2 sqns)
• Imecourt (2 sqns)
• Broglie (2 sqns)
• Prince Camille (2 sqns)
• Egmont (2 sqns)
• Levy (2 sqns)

Dragoons (6 sqns)

• La Reine (3 sqns)
• Listenois (3 sqns)

At th end of July, the Maréchal de Villeroy assumed command on the Moselle. He added the following regiments to the army formerly commanded by Tallard:

Infantry (12 bns)

• Champagne (3 bns)
• Navarre (3 bns)
• Beauvoisis (1 bn)
• Royal-Artillerie (1 bn)
• Forez (1 bn)
• Robecque (1 bn)
• Noailles (1 bn)
• Dorrington (1 bn)

Cavalry (22 sqns)

• Maison du Roi (13 sqns)
  • Gardes du Roi (8 sqns)
  • Gendarmes (1 sqn)
  • Chevau-légers (1 sqn)
  • Mousquetaires gris (1 sqn)
  • Mousquetaires noirs (1 sqn)
  • Grenadiers à cheval (1 sqn)
• Royal (3 sqns)
• Esclainvilliers (2 sqns)
• Dourches (2 sqns)
• Conflans (2 sqns)

Dragoons (6 sqns) newly raised regiments

• Davaray (3 sqns)
• Sainte-Hermine (3 sqns)

References

Vault, François Eugène de, and Pelet, and Pelet: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 1 pp. 647, 655