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