1702 – Allied offensive in the Low Countries – French OOB Bedmar May
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Description
State of the troops posted from the North Sea up to Lierre (Lier) under the command of the Marquis de Bedmar in mid-May 1702.
Commander-in-Chief: Marquis de Bedmar
Troops to guard the various places (21 bns)
- at Nieuport
- II./Bretagne (1 bn)
- II./Aunis (1 bn)
- at Ostend
- Puente Ibañez (1 bn) Spanish
- II./Lorraine (1 bn)
- II./Berry (1 bn)
- at Damme
- II./Beauvoisis (1 bn)
- Crussol (1 bn) first listed on 18 May
- II./La Fère (1 bn)
- at Bruges
- Rhingrave (1 bn)
- at Ghent
- Amezaga (1 bn) Spanish
- II./Noailles (1 bn)
- at Termonde
- II./Westerloo (1 bn)
- II./Capres (1 bn)
- at Antwerp
- Zuñiga (1 bn)
- I./La Faille (1 bn)
- Rupelmonde (1 bn)
- Salis (1 bn) Swiss
- Bruxelles
- Grimberg (1 bn) aka Grimberghes
- at Sintvliet
- Vandergracht (1 bn)
- at Lierre
- II./de Grobendonck (1 bn)
- II./de Grouff (1 bn)
Troops to form the field army (33 bns, 29 sqns)
- Infantry (33 bns)
- Spinola (2 bns) Spanish
- Surbeck (3 bns) Swiss
- Sillery (1 bn)
- Boulonnais (1 bn)
- Courrière (1 bn)
- Greder (3 bns) Swiss
- Thoy (1 bn)
- Sparre (2 bns)
- Grimaldi-le-Jeune (1 bn)
- Salis (2 bns) Swiss
- Luxembourg (1 bn)
- Courten (3 bns) Swiss
- Barrois (1 bn)
- Furstemberg (2 bns)
- Idiaquez (1 bn)
- I./Capres (1 bn)
- I./Deynse (1 bn)
- I./de Grobendonck (1 bn)
- Del Valle (1 bn)
- Fusiliers d'Espagne (1 bn)
- Villars (3 bns) Swiss
- Cavalry (29 sqns)
- Garde des Chevaux-Bais (1 sqn) Spanish
- Brancaccio Cavalry (2 sqns) Spanish
- Chacon Cavalry (2 sqns) Spanish
- Cécile Cavalry (2 sqns) Spanish
- Berghes Cavalerie (2 sqns) Spanish
- Ribeaucourt Cavalry (2 sqns) Spanish
- Noirmont Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Grignan Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Montrevel (2 sqns)
- Richebourg Dragons (3 sqns)
- Flavacourt Dragons (3 sqns)
- Fiennes Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Pelleport Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Bourgogne Cavalerie (2 sqns)
References
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 2 pp. 489-490, 494-495