The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Order of battle, 1759, Allied army
Order of Battle of the Allied Army in Westphalia, June 1759 [under the command of ] H.S.H. Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, & Lunenburg
1759 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | 23.2 x 36.0 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 732094
The attribution to Pleydell is made on stylistic grounds. The regimental rectangles are coloured according to nationality: British (red); Hanoverian (yellow); Hessian (grey); Dutch (orange); Prussian (green).
The General Officers of the First Line are Lieutenant-Generals Prince of Holstein, Einsedel, Hereditary Prince, Wutginau, Gilse, Kilmanseck, Sackville; Major-Generals Hanstein (Col), Stein (Col), Behr, Tole, Bock, Schule (Col), Plice (Col), Dreves (Col), Waldgrave, Schulenberg, Moystyn.
The General Officers of the Second Line are General Sporken; Lieutenant-Generals Imhoff, Urff, Prince of Anhalt, Granby; Major-Generals Finkenstein, Bischausen (Col), Wisenback (Col), Stoltzenberg (Col), Behr (Col), Kingsley, Bock, Elliott.
The Corps de Reserve is commanded by Major-General Prince Charles of Bevern. The 5th (Reserve Brigade of Light Guns) Brigade of Artillery is placed behind the Right Wing of the First Line, and the 6th (Reserve Brigade of Light Guns) Brigade of Artillery is behind the Left Wing of the First Line.
Condition: four fold lines. Verso: slight surface dirt; three corners abraided, perhaps where backing has been removed.
? John Cleeve Pleydell (1736-1816) (draughtsman)
Watermark: None
Mark, stamped: 872
Condition: four fold lines. Verso: slight surface dirt; three corners abraided, perhaps where backing has been removed
23.2 x 36.0 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
Order of Battle of the Allied Army in Westphalia, June 1759 [under the command of ] H.S.H. Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, & Lunenburg.
Annotations:
George III heading: Order of Battle June 1759.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, erased and partly legible, part of the old heading?:] Battle June 1759. (Verso) [top right, ink:] Line of Battle.
George III catalogue entry:
Order of Battle Order of Battle of the Allied Army in Westphalia commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in June 1759. MS.
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