1703 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Allied OOB May

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Description

Order of battle of the Allied army in the Low Countries in May 1703.

N.B.: For the moment we have only an incomplete order of battle concentrating on the British troops of the right wing and on the Prussian hired troops

Commander-in-chief: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

First Line	Second Line
Right Cavalry Wing
Ross's Brigade 1st Royal Dragoons Charles Ross' Dragoons Scots Dragoons an unidentified foreign regiment Wood's Brigade Queen's Regiment of Horse Cadogan's Horse Duke of Leinster’s Regiment of Horse Carabineers Wood's Horse	unidentified foreign cavalry regiments
Right Infantry Wing
Withers's Brigade I./1st Regiment of Foot Guards (1 bn) I./Royal Scots (1 bn) Hon. Emmanuel Scrope Howe's Foot aka 15th Marlborough's Foot aka 24th Welch Regiment of Fuzileers aka 23rd William Stewart's Foot aka 9th Hamilton's Brigade Queen's Regiment of Foot aka 8th Holcroft Blood's Foot aka 17th Henry Leigh's Foot aka 33rd Gustavus Hamilton Viscount Boyne's Foot aka 20th Earl of Barrymore's Foot aka 13th	Unidentified Brigade II./Royal Scots (1 bn) Earl of Derby's Foot aka 16th James Ferguson's Foot aka 26th Cameronians Scots Fusiliers aka 21st Lord North and Grey's Foot aka 10th

Prussian troops in Dutch pay

• Infantry
  • Markgraf Albrecht
  • Kronprinzen aka Friedlich von Brandenburg
  • Anhalt-Zerbst
  • Varenne
  • Wulffen
  • Heyden
• Cavalry
  • Sydow Horse unidentified unit

References

Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 5, Vienna 1877, p. 122

Fortescue, J. W.: A History of the British Army, Vol. I, MacMillan, London, 1899, p. 414