1702 – Campaign on the Rhine – French OOB April
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Description
French Army of the Rhine, end of April 1702
Staff
Commander-in-Chief: Maréchal de Catinat
Lieutenants-Generals
- Marquis d'Huxelles
- de Bertillac
- Marquis de Vins
- de Melac
- Comte de Guiscard
- Desbordes
- Marquis de Locmaria
- Comte du Bourg
Maréchaux de camp
- Marquis de Clérambault
- Chevalier de Grammont
- de Saint-Laurent
- de Magnac
- de Saint-Maurice
- Marquis de Sailly
- Marquis de Blansac
- Marquis de Liancourt
- de Legall
- Marquis de Thianges
- Duc d'Humières
- Marquis de Biron
- Prince Camille
Field Army
Infantry destined to the field army (39 ½ bns)
- Champagne (3 bns)
- Navarre (3 bns)
- Bourbonnais (2 bns)
- Coësquin (2 bns)
- Toulouse (2 bns)
- Condé (1 bn)
- Guyenne (1 bn)
- La Marche (1 bn)
- II./Robecq (1 bn)
- Clarke (1 bn) Irish
- Deslandes (1 bn)
- Nettancourt (2 bns)
- Royal-Artillerie (2 bns)
- Dorington (1 bn)
- II./La Sarre (1 bn)
- II./Bourbon (1 bn)
- II./Soissonnais (1 bn)
- II./Artois (1 bn)
- II./Provence (1 bn)
- II./Auxerrois (1 bn)
- II./Beaujolais (1 bn)
- II./Laonnais (1 bn)
- II./Croy (1 bn)
- II./Foix (1 bn)
- II./Vexin (1 bn)
- II./Sillery (1 bn)
- I./Béarn (1 bn)
- II./Vendôme (1 bn)
- II./Vivarais (1 bn)
- II./Boulonnais (1 bn)
- Galiotes (½ bn)
Cavalry: no information available
Garrisons in Alsace
Garrisons in Alsace (23 ½ bns)
- in Béfort: 1 bn
- in and around Huningue: 2 ½ bns
- in Neuf-Brisach: 3 bns
- in Schlestadt and the Fort du Mortier: 2 bns
- in Strasbourg and its citadel: 5 bns
- in Fort-Louis on the Rhine: 3 bns
- in Landau: 7 bns
Reinforcements
On the march (13 bn)
- Nice (1 bn)
- Saintonge (1 bn)
- Foix (1 bn)
- Monroux (1 bn)
- Lee (1 bn)
- Noailles (1 bn)
- Pery (1 bn)
- Crussol (1 bn)
- Provence (1 bn)
- Lorraine (1 bn)
- Vermandois (2 bns)
- Saint-Second (1 bn)
Preparing to march (12 bns)
- I./Artois (1 bn)
- Dauphin (3 bns)
- Bourbon (1 bn)
- I./Laonnais (1 bn)
- Nivernois (1 bn)
- II./La Marche (1 bn)
- Brie (1 bn)
- Pezeux (1 bn)
- II./Hainaut (1 bn)
- II./Angoumois (1 bn)
References
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 2 pp. 776-778
