1704 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Allied Ouwerkerk OOB May

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Description

By 27 May 1704, Field-Marshal Nassau-Ouwerkerk had assembled a large force near Houtain.

Commander-in-Chief: Field-Marshal Nassau-Ouwerkerk

Summary: 39 bns, 43 sqns

Infantry (39 bns)

• Dutch Dedem (1 bn)
• Danish unidentified units (4 bns) _(*)
• Dutch (Swedish) Oxenstierna (1 bn)
• Dutch (Scot) Colyear (1 bn)
• Dutch (Scot) Murray (1 bn)
• Münster Schwartz (1 bn)
• Dutch Reynhard (1 bn)
• Münster Nagel (1 bn)
• Dutch Heukelom (1 bn)
• Dutch Birkenfeld (1 bn)
• Dutch Woudenberg (1 bn)
• Dutch Holstein-Ploen (1 bn)
• Dutch (Swiss) Chambrier (2 bns)
• Dutch (Swiss) Albemarle (2 bns)
• Danish unidentified units (4 bns) under Bonnesse _(*)
• Dutch (Walloon) Jamart (1 bn)
• Dutch (Prussian) Kroonprins van Pruissen (1 bn)
• Prussian unidentified unit (1 bn)
• Osnabrück Spiegel (1 bn)
• Danish unidentified unit (1 bn) under Bartel _(*)
• Dutch Keppel (1 bn)
• Dutch Holstein-Beck (1 bn)
• Dutch Dohna-Ferrassieres (1 bn)
• Dutch Hollandsche Gardes (2 bns)
• Dutch Nassau-Waale (1 bn)
• Dutch Pallandt (1 bn)
• Dutch (Walloon) Caris (1 bn)
• Dutch (Walloon) Trognée (1 bn)
• Prussian Markgraf Albrecht (1 bn)
• Dutch Amelisweerd (1 bn)

Cavalry (43 sqns)

• Dutch Nysle Cavalry (1 sqn)
• Dutch Oost-Friesland Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Prussian unidentified units (2 sqns)
• Dutch Mattha Dragoons (2 sqns)
• Dutch Dopf Dragoons (2 sqns)
• Danish unidentified units (5 sqns) under Bonar probably Würtemberg-Oels Dragoons
• Westphalian Hühnerbein Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Prussian unidentified units (2 sqns)
• Dutch Dompré Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Dutch Tilly Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Dutch Chanclos Cavalry (2 sqns)
• ??? Randewick Dragoons (4 sqns)
• Dutch Vittinghof Cavalry (1 sqn)
• Hanoverian Croix de Fréchapelle Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Dutch Nassau-La Leck Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Dutch Garde te Paard (2 sqns)
• Dutch Karabiniers (2 sqns) aka Albemarle
• Dutch Tengnagel Cavalry (2 sqns)
• Holstein von der Nath Dragoons (4 sqns)

(*) The Danish contingent in Dutch/British pay consisted of the following 9 bns:

• Livgarden til Fods (1 bn)
• Sjællandske Infantry (2 bns)
• Fynske Infantry (1 bn)
• Württemberg-Oels Infantry (1 bn)
• Prins Carl Infantry (2 bns)
• Prins Georg Infantry (2 bns)

References

Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 4 p. 693