1705 – Campaign in the Low Countries – Allied OOB July

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Description

Order of battle of the Allied army in the Low Countries in 1705.

N.B.: For the moment we have only an incomplete order of battle concentrating on the British troops of the right wing

Commander-in-chief: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

First Line	Second Line
Right Cavalry Wing
Dragoon Brigade Scots Dragoons (3 sqns) Royal Dragoons of Ireland (3 sqns) Horse Brigade Queen's Regiment of Horse (3 sqns) Cadogan's Horse (2 sqns) Duke of Leinster’s Regiment of Horse (2 sqns) Carabineers (2 sqns) Wood's Horse (2 sqns)	unidentified foreign cavalry regiments
Right Infantry Wing
Brigade I./1st Regiment of Foot Guards (1 bn) I./Royal Scots (1 bn) Royal Regiment of Ireland (1 bn) aka 18th Welch Regiment of Fuzileers (1 bn) aka 23rd Sampson de Lalo's Foot (1 bn) aka 28th Stringer's Foot (1 bn) James Ferguson's Foot (1 bn) aka Cameronians aka 26th Earl of Derby's Foot (1 bn) aka 16th Brigade Prince George of Denmark's Foot (1 bn) aka The Buffs aka 3rd Scots Fusiliers (1 bn) aka 21st Thomas Meredith's Foot (1 bn) aka 37th Macartney's Foot (1 bn) Evans's Foot (1 bn) William Tatton’s Foot (1 bn) aka 24th Hon. Emmanuel Scrope Howe's Foot (1 bn) aka 15th	unidentified foreign infantry regiments
Infantry Centre
unidentified foreign infantry regiments	Brigade II./Royal Scots (1 bn) Lord North and Grey's Foot (1 bn) aka 10th Temple's Foot (1 bn) Thomas Farrington's Foot (1 bn) aka 29th Queen's Regiment of Foot (1 bn) aka 8th

References

Fortescue, J. W.: A History of the British Army, Vol. I, MacMillan, London, 1899, p. 458