1704 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Allied OOB May
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Description
By 18 May 1704, the British had assembled an army in a camp near Bedburg.
Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Lord Churchill (interim commander until the arrival of the Duke of Marlborough)
Summary: 16 bns, 29 sqns with 40 artillery pieces and 40 pontoons for a total of 20,600 men
Infantry (16 bns)
- British Queen's Foot (1 bn) aka Webb
- British Welsh Regiment of Fuzileers (1 bn)
- British Duke of Marlborough's Foot (1 bn)
- British Scots Fusiliers (1 bn) aka Rowe
- British Prince George of Denmark's Foot (1 bn) aka Churchill
- British Lord North and Grey's Foot (1 bn)
- British Royal Regiment of Ireland (1 bn) aka Hamilton
- British Earl of Derby's Foot (1 bn)
- British I./Royal Foot (1 bn) aka Orkney
- British 1st Foot Guards (1 bn)
- British Hon. Emmanuel Scrope Howe's Foot (1 bn)
- British Thomas Meredith's Foot (1 bn)
- British James Ferguson's Foot (1 bn)
- British II./Royal Foot (1 bn) aka Orkney
- Dutch Rechteren (1 bn)
- Prussian Erbprinz Hessen-Kassel (1 bn)
Cavalry (29 sqns)
- British Wood's Horse (2 sqns)
- British Carabineers (2 sqns) aka Wyndham
- British Duke of Leinster's Horse (2 sqns) aka Schomberg
- British Arran's Horse (1 sqn) aka Cadogan
- British Queen's Regiment of Horse (3 sqns) aka Lumley
- British Royal Dragoons of Ireland (2 sqns)
- British Scots Dragoons (1 sqn)
- Hessian Erbprinz Friedrich Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Hessian Auerochs Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Saxon-Gothaer Grevendorff Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Saxon-Gothaer Heilburg Horse (2 sqns)
- Saxon-Gothaer Hardenberg Dragoons (3 sqns)
References
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 6, Vienna 1879, pp. 382-383