1701 – Operations in the Low Countries – Hanoverian OOB Spring
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Description
In 1701, the Sea Powers (England and the Dutch Republic) concluded a contract with the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (aka Electorate of Hanover) and the Principality of Brunswick-Celle, by which these principalities agreed to provide the following troops.
In English Pay
Commander: Lieutenant-General Carl Christian von Sommerfeld, assisted by Lieutenant-General Cuno Josua von Bülow
Cavalry (1,074 horse and 2,171 dragoons) under Lieutenant-General von Bülow
- Hanoverian Leibgarde (358 men)
- Hanoverian Voigt Cavalry (358 men)
- Hanoverian Noyelle Cavalry (368 men)
- Hanoverian Bülow Dragoons (663 men)
- Celle Villers Dragoons (754 men)
- Celle Bothmer Dragoons (754 men)
Infantry (5,175 foot) under Lieutenant-General von Sommerfeld
- Hanoverian Garde (2 bns for a total of 1,416 men)
- Hanoverian d'Herleville (1 bn of 708 men)
- Hanoverian Hülsen von Treufels (1 bn of 708 men)
- Celle La Motte (1 bn of 781 men)
- Celle de Luc (1 bn of 781 men)
- Celle Tozin (1 bn of 781 men)
In Dutch Pay
Commander: Major-General St. Paul des Estanges, assisted by Barthold Heinr[ich von Bernstorff, Detlef von Rantzau, and Lieutenant-Colonel Amaury de Farcy de St. Laurent
Note: on paper each infantry battalion had 742 men, each cavalry regiment 384, in reality infantry strength was about 500, cavalry about 358. The infantry battalion had seven companies, in those of Celle one of these was a grenadier company.
Cavalry under Lieutenant-Colonel de St. Laurent
- Hanoverian Göden Cavalry
- Celle Boisdavid Cavalry
- Celle Croix de Fréchapelle Cavalry
Infantry under Bernstorff and Rantzau
- Hanoverian St. Pol (1 bn) aka St. Paul or St. Poul
- Hanoverian Amstenräth (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Weyhe (1 bn)
- Celle Bernstorf (1 bn)
- Celle De Carles (1 bn) aka de Charles
- Celle Ranzow (1 bn) aka de Rantzau
Two units were later added to these contingents:
- Celle Pentz Cavalry (358 men)
- Hanoverian Schulenburg Dragoons (477 men)
References
Schwencke, Alexander: Geschichte der Hannoverschen Truppen im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg 1701-1714, Hannover 1862, pp. 11-12
Acknowledgements
Jörg Meier for the initial version of this article
