1702 – Campaign on the Rhine – French OOB Villars September
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Description
Order of battle of the French army destined to join the Bavarian Army, 18 September 1702.
Staff
Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Marquis de Villars
assisted by:
- Lieutenant-General de Melac
- Lieutenant-General Desbordes (in case that M. de Melac would not be fit for duty)
- Lieutenant-General Comte du Bourg
- Maréchal de camp de Maganc
- Maréchal de camp de Saint-Maurice
- Maréchal de camp de Chamarande
- Maréchal de camp de Biron
Units
Summary: 30 bns and 40 sqns
Infantry (30 bns)
- Champagne (3 bns)
- Bourbonnais (2 bns)
- Crussol (1 bn)
- Coësquin (2 bns)
- La Reine (3 bns)
- Condé (1 bn)
- Vermandois (2 bns)
- Toulouse (2 bns)
- Guyenne (1 bn)
- Hainaut (2 bns)
- Saintonge (1 bn)
- Nivernois (2 bns)
- Aunis (1 bn)
- Luxembourg (1 bn)
- Laonnais (2 bns)
- Auxerrois (2 bns)
- Robecq (2 bns)
Cavalry (34 sqns)
- Royal Cavalerie (3 sqns)
- Dauphin-Étranger Cavalerie (3 sqns)
- Condé Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Momain Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Vivans Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Brissac Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Saint-Pouanges Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- La Ferronnaye Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Boucks Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Chevalier de Seve (2 sqns)
- Conflans Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Vivans-Saint-Cristau Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Fourquevaux Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Merinville Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Dauriac Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Comte de Bissy Cavalerie (2 sqns)
Dragoons (6 sqns)
- La Reine Dragons (3 sqns)
- Gévaudan Dragons (3 sqns)
References
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 2 p. 826