[296] 180 battalions. At this period a battalion is generally taken at 500, and a squadron at 120 men.
[297] Marlborough's Despatches, vol. i. p. 105.
| Order of Battle. Campaign of 1703. | ||||
| Right Wing only. | ||||
| Left. | Right. | |||
| 1st Line. | ||||
| Hamilton's Brigade. | Withers's Brigade. | Wood's Brigade. | Ross's Brigade. | |
| 8th Foot. | 1 Batt. 1st Guards. | 1st Dragoon Guards. | 1st Royal Dragoons. | |
| Foreign Regiments. | 17th " | 1 Batt. Royal Scots. | 5th Dragoon Guards. | 5th Dragoons. |
| 33rd " | 15th Foot. | 7th Dragoon Guards. | Scots Greys. | |
| 20th " | 24th " | 6th Dragoon Guards. | A Foreign Regiment. | |
| 13th " | 23rd Royal Welsh. | 3rd Dragoon Guards. | ||
| 9th Foot. | ||||
| 2nd Line. | ||||
| 2nd Batt. Royal Scots. | ||||
| 16th Foot. | ||||
| Foreign | 26th Cameronians. | Foreign | ||
| Regiments. | 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. | Cavalry. | ||
| 10th Foot. | ||||
Daily Courant, June 2, 1703.
[299] Despatches, vol. i. p. 198.
[300] Royal Dragoons; 2nd, 9th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 33rd Foot.
[301] Erle's Dragoons. Rooke's, Paston's, Deloraine's, Inchiquin's, Ikerryn's, Dungannon's, and Orrery's Foot. All the foot, except the two first, were raised in Ireland.
[302] Quincy, vol. iv. p. 245. It is said that of seventeen battalions only 1500 men reached the Elector of Bavaria at Donaueschingen.
[303] Thirty-four English field-pieces and four howitzers took part in the famous march to the Danube. There were 2500 horses in all in the train.—Postman, 18th May.