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Order of battle, 1746, England
Ordre de Bataille de l'Armée commandée par S.E. Le Feldt Marechal Wade / 1746
1745 or laterPencil, pen and ink on thin paper | 19.2 x 31.5 cm (image) | RCIN 730008
Unfinished; regimental rectangles are uncoloured; pencil guiding lines for the lettering are visible. This small force of six squadrons and 16 battalions, with artillery and two battalions in Reserve, was commanded by Wade with, in the First Line, General Nassau; Lieutenant-Generals Swartzenberg and Tyrawley; Major-Generals Oglethorpe and Howard; Brigadiers Evertseen and Mordaunt.
The General Officers of the Second Line are Lieutenant-General Wentworth; Major-Generals Villattes and Huske; Brigadiers Grotenray and Cholmondeley. The Reserve Corps is commanded by Colonel Patot.
This order of battle is dated 1746 but probably refers to the forces which Wade had under his command when pursuing Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Britain at the end of 1745. Wade refused a further appointment for service at the end of 1745 on the grounds of his age (he was 72) and his ill health (Speck 1981, pp.104-5).
Additional text: [bottom left, a summary of the total numbers of the pieces of field artillery and the numbers of battalions and squadrons of the first line.] [Bottom right, the numbers of British, Dutch and Swiss squadrons and battalions of the first and second lines.]
Condition: three fold lines; trimmed; discoloured along left edge.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: The letters GR, crown above, within two leafed branches, the whole within a circle
Mark, stamped: 491
Condition: three fold lines; trimmed; discoloured along left edge
19.2 x 31.5 cm (image)
20.1 x 32.3 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Ordre de Bataille de l'Armée commandée par S.E. Le Feldt Marechal Wade / 1746. [i.e. 1745?]
Additional text:
[bottom left, a summary of the total numbers of the pieces of field artillery and the numbers of battalions and squadrons of the first line.] [Bottom right, the numbers of British, Dutch and Swiss squadrons and battalions of the first and second lines.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Order of Battle 1746.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Order of Battle Ordre de Bataille de l’Armée commandée par le Feldt Marechal Wade, 1746. MS.
Bibliographic reference(s)
W.A. Speck, The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the '45, Oxford, 1981, pp.104-5
Page revisions
14 March 2024
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