1703 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Franco-Spanish OOB October Namur and Moselle
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Description
Order of battle of the Franco-Spanish corps at Namur and the Moselle in mid-October 1703
At Namur on 13 October
Summary: 11 bns and 24 sqns
- Infantry (11 bns)
- Cologne Gardes (2 bns)
- Spanish Deynse (1 bn)
- Spanish Caraccioli (1 bn)
- French Blaisois (1 bn)
- French Royal-Roussillon (2 bns)
- French Vexin (2 bns) sent to reinforce Pracontal's Corps
- French Saint-Sulpice (2 bns)
- Cavalry (24 sqns)
- Cologne Garde du Corps (1 sqn)
- Cologne de Bellestin (2 sqns)
- Cologne Garde à cheval (2 sqns)
- Cologne Gardes-Dragons (2 sqns)
- Cologne Chassonville Dragons (2 sqns)
- Spanish Ferrare Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Spanish Heyder (2 sqns) sent to reinforce Pracontal's Corps
- French Egmont (2 sqns)
- Spanish Glime (2 sqns) former Fourneaux
- French Montrevel (2 sqns) sent to reinforce Pracontal's Corps
- French Bar (2 sqns)
- Spanish Los Rios (2 sqns)
On the Moselle on 14 October
Summary: 21 bns and 24 sqns
Commander-in-Chief: M. de Pracontal
- Infantry (21 bns)
- French Orléans (2 bns)
- French III./Royal (1 bn)
- French Boulonnais (1 bn)
- French II./Brie (1 bn)
- French I./Agenais (1 bn)
- French II./Quercy (1 bn)
- French II./Cambresis (1 bn)
- French II./Beauvoisis (1 bn)
- French Zurlauben (2 bns)
- French II./Lorraine (1 bn)
- French II. Condé (1 bn)
- French II./d'Aunis (1 bn)
- French I./Auxerrois (1 bn)
- French Languedoc (2 bns) on its way to join the corps
- French Gondrin (2 bns) on its way to join the corps
- French Vexin (2 bns) on its way to join the corps
- Cavalry (24 sqns)
- French Fiennes (2 sqns)
- French Parabère (2 sqns)
- French Saumery (2 sqns)
- French Meuse (2 sqns)
- Spanish Louvignies (2 sqns)
- Spanish Fraula (2 sqns)
- Spanish Flavacourt Dragons (3 sqns)
- French Montrevel (2 sqns) on its way to join the corps
- French Rosen (2 sqns)
- Spanish Heyder (2 sqns) on its way to join the corps
- Du Roi Dragons (3 sqns) more probably Royal Dragons, on its way to join the corps
References
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 3 p. 777