1704 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Allied OOB February
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Description
Allied army of the Prince of Hessen posted on the Rhine on 16 February 1704
Commander-in-Chief: Prince of Hessen seconded by Sommerfeld (the latter will be replaced by von Bülow on 2 April)
The reconciliation of all units with the proper regiments of each nation is not yet completed.
For now, only a French source has served to list units.
Summary: 29 bns, 48 sqns
Infantry (29 bns)
- Palatine Barbau (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Palatine Rehbinder (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Palatine Nassau-Weilburg (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Hessian Grenadiers (2 bns)
- Hessian Hesse-Cassel (2 bns) maybe Hessian Leibgarde
- Hessian Karl von Hessen-Kassel (1 bn) known as Leopold von Hessen-Kassel since 1703
- Hessian Schenck (1 bn) known as Wartensleben since 1703
- Hessian Dillman (1 bn) unidentified unit
- Hessian Stückrath (1 bn)
- Hessian Tettau (1 bn) unidentified unit
- Hessian Oberreinschen (1 bn) unidentified unit
- Hessian Hesse-Darmstadt (2 bns) unidentified unit
- Hanoverian Leibregiment zu Fuß (2 bns) aka Sommerfeld, in English pay
- Hanoverian d'Herleville (1 bn) in English pay
- Hanoverian Saint-Pol (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Hanoverian Hülsen (1 bn) in English pay
- Hanoverian Du Breuille (1 bn) in English pay
- Hanoverian Bruncken (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Celler Ranzow (2 bns) in Dutch pay
- Celler Bernstorf (1 bn) in Dutch pay
- Celler de Luc (1 bn) in English pay
- Celler Tozin (1 bn) in English pay
- Celler Gauvin (1 bn) in English pay
- Münsterer Ifflingen (1 bn) unidentified unit
Cavalry (48 sqns)
- Hessian Leibregiment zu Pferde (3 sqns)
- Hessian Hessen-Homburg Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Hessian Hesse-Darmstadt (3 sqns) unidentified unit
- Hessian Hagenburg (2 sqns) unidentified unit
- Hessian Carabiniers (2 sqns) aka Spiegel
- Hessian Hartenberg (2 sqns) unidentified unit
- Hessian Legerin (4 sqns) unidentified unit
- Hessian Paderborn (3 sqns) unidentified unit
- Hessian Hartenburg (2 sqns) unidentified unit
- Palatine Frankenburg (2 sqns)
- Hessian Benzen (2 sqns) maybe Palatine Bentheim Dragoons
- Celler Bannier (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Göden (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Schulenburg Dragoons (4 sqns) in Dutch pay
- Sachsen-Gotha Prinz von Saxe Gotha Dragoons (4 sqns) in Dutch pay
- Hanoverian Sachsen-Heilburg (4 sqns) unidentified unit
- Celler Boisdavid (2 sqns)
- Celler Croix de Fréchapelle (2 sqns)
References
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 5 pp. 677-678
Schwencke, Alexander: Geschichte der Hannoverschen Truppen im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg 1701-1714, Hannover 1862, pp. 65ff
Acknowledgements
Jörg Meier for additional info on the Hanoverian and Celler units
