[338] Despatches, vol. ii. p. 554.
[339] The British regiments regularly employed in the besieging army were the 8th, 10th, and 18th, and Evans's Foot; the Scots Greys, 3rd and 6th Dragoon Guards. The total loss of the Allies was 32 officers and 551 men killed, 83 officers and 1941 men wounded. The 18th Royal Irish lost 15 officers alone, and in one attack over 100 men in half an hour.
[340] 8th Dragoons (now Hussars), 30th and 34th Foot; two Dutch and two Neapolitan battalions.
[341] 2200 of them British, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 2nd, 9th, 17th, 33rd, and Brudenell's Foot.
[342] The total force comprehended 6900 men. Two squadrons each of the 3rd and 4th Dragoons (now Hussars) and seven squadrons of foreigners; the 28th, 29th, Hill's, Watkins's, Mark Kerr's, Macartney's Foot, two battalions of Marines, one of Germans and six of Huguenots.
[343] Colonel Parnell calls this a novelty and approves it; Colonel Frank Russell condemns it. The practice was not proscribed, but it was recognised as extremely hazardous (see Kane's Campaigns, ed. 1757, pp. 69-70), and received its final condemnation at the hands of Napoleon. Campagnes de Turenne.
[344] The British regiments present were the Queen's Bays, 3rd, 4th, and 8th Dragoons (now Hussars), Peterborough's and Pearce's Dragoons, Guards (mixed battalion); 2nd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 17th, 28th, 33rd, 35th, 36th, Mountjoy's, Macartney's, Breton's, Bowles's, Mark Kerr's Foot. List of casualties of officers will be found in the Postboy, 26th June 1707. See order of battle on next page.
| Order of Battle. Almanza. | ||||
| Left. Left Wing only. Right. | ||||
| 1st Line. | ||||
| Wade's Brigade. | Macartney's Brigade. | |||
| Guiscard's Dragoons | Mountjoy's Foot. | Four Dutch regiments of horse. | Mordaunt's Foot. | Two Dutch Brigades. |
| Essex's Dragoons (4th Hussars). | 17th Foot. | Queen's Bays. | Macartney's Foot. | |
| 7th Dragoons (Hussars). | Peterborough's Dragoons. | Two regiments of Dutch horse. | 35th Foot. | |
| 1st Royal Dragoons. | 8th Dragoons (Hussars). | 1 Batt. English Guards. | ||
| 33rd Foot. | ||||
| 6th " | ||||
| 2nd Line. | ||||
| Hill's Brigade. | ||||
| Four | 11th Foot. | Four | Bowles's. | |
| Squadrons | Mark Kerr's Foot. | Portuguese | Nassau's. | |
| Portuguese | Three Portuguese Squadrons. | Squadrons. | Bretton's. | |
| Dragoons. | 36th Foot. | 2nd Foot. | ||
| 9th " | ||||
Postboy, 5th-7th June 1707.
[345] Parker.