War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Order of battle of British and Austrian armies, 1743
ORDRE de BATAILLE / de l’Armée Britannique et Autrichiénne en Allemagne Commandée / de Sa Majesté le Roy de la GRANDE BRETAGNE Le 20m July 1743
1743 or laterPen, ink and watercolour on paper | 22.6 x 35.7 cm (image) | RCIN 728108
The General Officers of the First Line are Marshals Prince George de Hesse, Comte de Neuperg, Duc d'Aremberg, Earl of Stair; Generals du Pontpietin, Prince de Waldeck, Diemar, Honniwood; Lieutenant-Generals Sommerfeldt, Ilten, Prince de Salm, Chanclos, Dunmore, Courriere, Greffendorf, Ligonnier, Campbell; Major-Generals Launaÿ, Soubiron, Brandt, Rothes, Albemarle; Brigadiers Montigny, Klinckawström, Middachten, Zastrow, Howard, Onslow, Duc de Marleborough.
The General Officers of the Second Line are General de Wendt; Lieutenant-Generals Druchtleben, Prince de Wolffenbuttel, Duc de Cumberland, Havley, Cope; Major-Generals Hammerstein, Prince Frederic [of Hesse], Holli; Brigadiers Grote, Maider, Schulenbourg, Huscke, Pultney. The Ecossois-montagnards are to the right of the two lines of battle.
The regimental rectangles appear to be coloured according to the coat, facings, and cuffs or vest. A note in a cartouche, bottom right, states that the total number of cannon was 82 pieces: British 24, Austrian 20, Hanoverian 26. Another note in a cartouche, bottom left, states that the total number of squadron of horse for First and Second Lines was 76, with 57 battalions, plus a Scottish unit: ‘Ecossois: montagnards 1 Bat.’
Condition: two fold lines; some brown spots.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys
Mark, stamped: 334
Condition: two fold lines; some brown spots
21.9 x 35.6 cm (neatline)
22.6 x 35.7 cm (image)
23.1 x 36.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
ORDRE de BATAILLE / de l’Armée Britannique et Autrichiénne en Allemagne Commandée / de Sa Majesté le Roy de la GRANDE BRETAGNE Le 20m July 1743. [top centre, in cartouche]
Annotations:
George III heading: Order of Battle 20 July 1743.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, red pencil:] 7/77; [black pencil:] IX/26; [top right, black pencil, erased:] Order of Battle.
George III catalogue entry:
Order of Battle Ordre de Bataille de l'Armée Britannique et Autrichienne en Allemagne, commandée par S.M. le Roy de la Grande Bretagne, le 20 Juillet 1743. MS.
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Germany
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