1704 – Campaign in Portugal – Allied OOB
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Description
Order of battle of the Allied army
Commander-in-chief: Mainhard, Duke of Schomberg
De Las Minas's Division
Infantry (19 Portuguese bns and 2 Dutch bns)
- Tercio de Caminha (1 bn) under Joao Manoel de Noronha
- Tercio de Valença (1 bn) under Francisco Carneiro de Sousa, Conde de Ilha
- Tercio Velho do Minho (1 bn) under Jorge de Cabedo do Vasconcelos
- Tercio de Viana (1 bn) under Lope de Almeida
- Tercio Velho de Chaves (1 bn) under Felix Machado de Mendoça
- Tercio Velho de Bragança (1 bn)
- Tercio Novo de Bragança (1 bn) under Henrique Lopes de Oliveira
- Tercio Velho de Almeida (1 bn) under Gaspar de Brito Freire
- Tercio Novo de Almeida (1 bn) under Joseph Delgado Freire
- Tercio Velho de Penamacor (1 bn) under Manoel de Tavora
- Tercio Novo de Penamacor (1 bn) under Joseph de Melo Homen
- Tercio de Porto (1 bn) under Luis de Saldanha
- Auxilarries Portuguese Battalions of Pinhel and Guimaraes (7 bns)
- Waes (1 bn) under Colonel Franz Jakob de Waes
- Schratenbach (1 bn) under Colonel Wilhem Frederick van Schratenbach
Cavalry (21 sqns for a total of 1,800 men)
- Guardias de los Gobernadores de Armas y Generales des Caballeria de las Provincias de Beira, Mino, y Traz-os-Montes (12 sqns)
- Trozos Provinciales de Beira (3 sqns)
- Trozos Provinciales de Mino (3 sqns)
- Trozos Provinciales de Traz-os-Montes (3 sqns)
Fagel's Division posted to the north of the Tagus
Infantry (5 Portuguese bns and 2 Dutch bns for a total of approx. 3,750 men)
- Tercio de la Armada (1 bn)
- Tercio Novo da Corte (1 provincial bn)
- Tercio de Cascais (1 provincial bn)
- Tercios de Ordenanças de Lisboa (1 bns)
- Prins van Holstein-Norburg (1 bn)
- Saint-Amant (1 bn) or Welderen (1 bn)
Cavalry (10 sqns for a total of 1,000 men)
- Drymborn Cavalry
- Mattha Dragoons
- Caballeria de la Corte, under the Conde do Prado
Schomberg's Division posted to the south of the Tagus
Infantry (9 Portuguese bns and 5 British bns for a total of 14 bns or approx. 9,000 men)
- Tercio de Castelo da Vide (1 bn) under Ayres de Salhanha de Albuquerque
- Tercio de Elvas (1 bn) under Antonio de Noronha
- Tierco de Olivença (1 bn) under Antonio de Salganha de Mesquita Lobo
- Tercio de Moura (1 bn) under the Conde de Vidigueira
- Tercio de Campo Maior (1 bn) under Antinio Tellez de Meneses
- Tercio de Estremoz (1 bn) under Martin Lopes Lobo Saldanha
- Tercio de Junta do Comercio (1 bn)
- Tercio Velho de Setubal (1 bn) under the Marquès de Fontes
- Tercio Auxiliar (1 bn)
- Queen Dowager's Foot (1 bn) aka Portmore's
- William Stewart's Foot (1 bn)
- James Earl Stanhope's Foot (1 bn)
- Henry Leigh's Foot (1 bn)
- Brudenell's Foot or Mountjoy's Foot (1 bn)
Cavalry (20 sqns for a total of 2,000 men)
- 1st Royal Dragoons (3 sqns) aka Lord Raby's
- Henry Cunningham's Dragoons (3 sqns)
- unidenfified Portuguese cavalry units present in that sector (14 sqns for a total of 1,400 men)
References
Fortescue, J. W.: A History of the British Army, Vol. I, MacMillan, London, 1899, pp. 447-448
Acknowledgement
Jean-Pierre Loriot for the initial version of this article
