While placing the finishing touches to my map for the Northern campaign 1812 the list of projects has
swung back like a pendulum to the Seven Years War. With the French army complete and organized
as per order of battle for Hastenbeck I decided to work on the opposition.
One problem here, with the exception of
the Duke of Cumberland there were no British present at the Battle of
Hastenbeck. It was not until later in the war, that the British arrived in
sufficient numbers. Even the British force at the Battle of Minden were small
compared to the later battles of 1761. This left the German allies of Hannover, Brunswick and Hessen-Kassel to carry the weight of the early campaigns
against the French.
Looking at my collection, I divided
this into three parcels, one British, the second would become the troops of Hannover and lastly those for Hessen-Kassel. The British would have enough elements for a big battle game and
Vellinghausen (1761) worked quite well. This turned out to be 13 horse, 17
foot, 3 cannon and 3 generals.
The following order of battle was taken
from BritishBattles.com with description and map: Vellinghausen.
Horse
Royal Horse Guards (3), King’s Dragoon Guards (3), 2nd
Dragoon Guards, 3rd Dragoon Guards, the Carabineers, 7th Dragoon Guards; now
the Royal Dragoon Guards.
Dragoons
1st Royal Dragoons, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, 2nd
Dragoons, 7th Dragoons, 10th Dragoons, 11th Dragoons, 15th Light Dragoons (3).
Royal Artillery.
Guards
First Guards, Coldstream Guards, and the third Guards.
Infantry
5th Foot, 8th Foot, 11th Foot, 12th Foot, 20th Foot,
23rd Foot, 24th Foot, 25th Foot, 33rd Foot, 37th Foot, 50th Foot, 51st Foot, Welsh and Maxwell's converged grenadiers.
Auxiliaries
87th Highlanders and 88th Highlanders,
Total strength: 29 sqds. 17 bns.
Useful online references for the British
A final
note.
During the Seven Years War, permanent
organizations such as Corps and Division were not known. Units were grouped by
brigades and the army under Ferdinand of Brunswick distributed the British infantry
and cavalry brigades among his generals, with a number having troops from
Hannover, Brunswick, Hessen and Britain.
The following list for the Battle of
Vellinghausen is taken from Colonel H.C.B. Rogers’ book, the British Army of
the Eighteenth Century.
Commander: Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick
The
Erbprinz of Brunswick, four large brigades of Hanoverian
infantry, cavalry and artillery.
General
Conway, two British brigades of infantry and one
of cavalry.
General
Howard, one each brigade of British infantry and
cavalry, two German battalions, British and Hanoverian artillery.
General
Prinz von Anhalt, three infantry brigades (Hessian,
Brunswick and Hanoverian) and a British cavalry brigade.
General
von Watgineau, two infantry brigades of Hessian,
Brunswick and Hanoverian troops and a Hanoverian and Brunswick cavalry brigade.
General
the Marquis of Granby, a number of infantry and cavalry
brigades composed of British, Brunswick, Hanoverian, Prussian, Hessian and
British “foreign legion” troops.
For the DBA player, this would mean a multinational
army without separate “allied” commands.
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The German Allies - Hannover
2 opmerkingen:
Very nice looking army!
Phil.
Thank you Phil,
We will have our first engagement next week Tuesday. This time I will take the French.
Salut,
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