Danish Foot at Aughrim

[Friedrich August I.]

Thanks for this Dan but I can't find the download button. Where is it on that page pls? Is it free or do you have to pay?


cheers

B

Barry,
Download goes if you choose on the right PDF beneath the words READ - no payment needed.
Hope that helps,
Günter

[Graf Bretlach]

Here is my final take on the Marburg OOB

Transcription/interpretation of the Marburg Order of Battle 12 July 1691
Marburg archives document digam_5729_1

First line right to left
Leveson’s English dragoons 3s
Cunningham’s Enniskillen dragoons 2s
English Horse Guards 2s
Langston’s English horse 2s

Meath’s Irish foot 1b
Rouvigny’s Huguenot horse 2s
Lord George Hamilton’s Enniskillen foot 1b
Rouvigny’s Huguenot horse 1s
Herbert’s English foot 1b
Villier’s English horse 2s

Kirke’s foot 1b
Gustavus Hamilton’s foot 1b
Bellasis’ foot 1b
Erle’s foot 1b [not 19F]
Drogheda’s foot 1b [garrison]
Trelawney’s foot 1b [garrison]
Nassau-Saarbrücken Dutch foot 1b [664d]
Belcastel’s Huguenot foot 1b
Cambon’s Huguenot foot 1b
Melonière’s Huguenot foot 1b
La Forest’s Danish horse 2s
Prince Christian’s Danish foot 1b
Donep’s Danish horse 2s
Prince Frederick’s Danish foot 1b
Sehested’s Danish horse 2s
Prince George’s Danish foot 1b [replace with the Garde]
Boncour Dutch horse – 1s [672d]
Portland Dutch horse 1s [gardes te paard] [672a]
Lloyds English foot 2s [1b] [garrison of Athlone]
Eppinger’s Dutch dragoons 3s [672h]
27 squadrons [25] 16 battalions [17] in the first line.


Second line right to left
Wynne’s Enniskillen dragoons 3s
Lanier’s English horse 2s
Wolseley’s Enniskillen horse 2s [instead of Brewer]
Brewer’s English foot 1b [instead of Wolseley]
Foulkes English foot 1b
Hamilton’s Enniskillen foot 1b [Creighton’s]
Byerley’s English horse 2s
Wolseley’s Enniskillen horse 2s
Boncour’s Dutch horse 1s [672d]
Portland Dutch horse 1s [gardes te paard] [672a]
Stuart’s English foot 1b
Lisburne’s English foot 1b
Tiffin’s Enniskillen foot 1b
St John’s Londonderry foot 1b
Babington’s English-Dutch foot 1b [or Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt]
Groben’s Dutch foot 1b [672h]
Brandenburg’s Dutch foot 1b [673d][County Cork]
Prince George’s foot 2b [Big mistake here]
Lord Cutt’s English-Dutch foot 1b
Nassau-Zuylenstein’s Dutch horse 1s [588b]
Ginkel’s Dutch horse 2s [mistake] [possibly Schack 672i 2s]
Jutland Danish foot 1b
Funen Danish foot 1b
Zealand Danish foot 1b
Ittersum/Nyenhuis Dutch horse 2s[672b]
Ginkel Dutch horse 2s [625b]
Riedesel/Steinbeck Dutch horse 1s [672c]
Montpouillon Dutch horse 2s [672g]
Eppinger’s Dutch dragoons 2s [672h]
Total 25 squadrons [23] 16 battalions [14]

I enjoyed this thread, thank you Barry

[barr7430]

GB, glad you are enjoying it! me too!

Just one point... on your post of 070914 you stated Brandenburg were in Ireland but not at Aughrim, so maybe this should be an amendment to oyur list?

cheers

B

[Graf Bretlach]

Yes you are right, however it wasn't meant to be a reproduction of the proper day of battle OOB, just an interpretation of the original document.

however I have amended it, and added the possibility of Schack replacing one of the Ginkel regiments (which I sadly thought about on the way to work this morning)

I would also add that there is some variation on the Nassau regiments, however the two I identified were in Ireland 1690/91 and the General was Graf Frederick of Nassau-Zuylenstein so I'm reasonably happy I have them right, if anyone has other ideas please say and why.

I'll look at Story's OOB and maybe produce a proper list for the actual battle.

[turrabear]

Yes you are right, however it wasn't meant to be a reproduction of the proper day of battle OOB, just an interpretation of the original document.

however I have amended it, and added the possibility of Schack replacing one of the Ginkel regiments (which I sadly thought about on the way to work this morning)

I would also add that there is some variation on the Nassau regiments, however the two I identified were in Ireland 1690/91 and the General was Graf Frederick of Nassau-Zuylenstein so I'm reasonably happy I have them right, if anyone has other ideas please say and why.

I'll look at Story's OOB and maybe produce a proper list for the actual battle.

that would be great if you could produce an oob for aughrim i'm sure that it would be great help to everybody interested in the battle.

[wdrenth]

I would also add that there is some variation on the Nassau regiments, however the two I identified were in Ireland 1690/91 and the General was Graf Frederick of Nassau-Zuylenstein so I'm reasonably happy I have them right, if anyone has other ideas please say and why.

Just to add about the Nassaus. This was a pretty extensive clan:

The regiment of horse was commanded by Willem Frederik van Nassau-Zuylestein, who would become the 1st Earl of Rochford later.
His son, the 2nd Earl, was killed at Almenara in 1710. Related to this family is the Nassau-Ouwerkerk family.

The regiment of foot was commanded by Walrad, graaf van Nassau-Saarbrucken (Ottweiler). He would assume the colonelcy of the Dutch Garde te Voet in 1701. This is a tricky family, as the original Nassau-Saarbrucken was divided amongst three sons in the mid 1600s: one got Saarbrucken, the second got Ottweiler, and the third Usingen. Members of these new branches appear somehow as colonel at some point in history, under any possible combination of names ...

The Nassau to rule all Nassaus was of course Willem Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau

cheers,
Wienand

[Graf Bretlach]

Mike, just came across this while reading accounts of Aughrim

Letter Würtemberg to Christian V n.d. [note says maybe 17 July]

.... The foot advanced through the bog, while the cavalry defiled over a paved causeway which led towards the castle.....

page 122 of Danaher & Simms (1962)

he mentions it again a bit further down.

One day it would be great to spend some time over in Denmark and get the full texts and extant attachments.

[Rebel]

Mark,

apols for absence - am up to my neck in the real world at the moment....

The causeway is the route across the bog taken by Mackay when he effectively takes out the Jacobite left...


Mike.