Order of battle, 1746, Low Countries

Ordre de battaille / de l’Armée Alliée aux Pais bas sous les Ordres de / Son Altesse Roijale Monseigneur le Duc Charles de Lorraine en chef. 1746

A manuscript order of battle of the Allied army under the command of Prince Charles of Lorraine in Brabant, c.1746. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48).

This shows a slightly different arrangement to RCIN 730005, with the addition of a key, below the order of battle, which explains the colour coding of the ‘Imperiaux’ (red/white), ‘Anglois’ (green/white), ‘Hannoveriens’ (yellow/red), ‘Hessois’ (white/blue), and ‘Hollandois’ (red/blue); this is followed by an ‘Extrait’ which gives the numbers of troops. In a continental hand.

The Dutch squadrons and battalions which were shown as Dutch on RCIN 730005, are here coloured as Hessian; equally, all the Hessian units are coloured as if they were Dutch. The colouring must, therefore, be in error on this order of battle.

Condition: nine fold lines, formerly folded to 7.0 x 8.2 cm; trimmed; several small tears along the folds. Verso: a few brown ink spots; surface dirt on outside fold panels.