ORDER OF BATTLE

OF THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN ARMY IN HOLLAND

before the battle of Bergen (19/9)

18 September 1799

Composed by Geert van Uythoven

York, Frederick August, Duke of York and Albany

Commander in Chief of the combined Anglo-Russian army in Holland

BRITISH ARMY

Commander of the artillery: Major General Tarringdon

Quartermaster-General: Colonel Anstruther

ADVANCE GUARD ¹⁾ (Major-General Knox)[1,730]

Battalion grenadiers

Battalion light infantry

1ST DIVISION (Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby)

1st Guards Brigade (Major-General Doyley)

Guard Grenadiers Battalion (Colonel Wynyard; Lt-Col Morris)

3rd bat/1st Regiment Guards (Colonel Frederick Maitland; Lt-Cols Cook, Dawkins, Lake, and Smollet)

2nd Guards Brigade (Major-General Sir Harry Burrard)

1st bat/2nd Regiment Guards (Lt-Col Cunningham)

1st bat/3rd Regiment Guards (Lt-Col Murray)

1st Brigade (Major-General Eyre Coote)

2nd Regiment Foot (Sir George Ramsey Dalhousie)

27th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Thomas Graham)

29th Regiment Foot

85th Regiment Foot

2nd Brigade (Major-General Sir John Moore)

2nd bat/1st Regiment Foot

25th Regiment Foot (Colonel John Hope)

49th Regiment Foot

1st bat/79th Regiment Foot (Colonel Alan Cameron)

1st bat/92nd Regiment Foot (Col Marquis of Huntley; Lt-Col Cameron)

2ND DIVISION (Lieutenant-General Sir James Murray Pulteney)

3rd Brigade (Major-General Don)

1st bat/17th Regiment Foot (Colonel Brent Spencer)

2nd bat/17th Regiment Foot

1st bat/40th Regiment Foot

2nd bat/40th Regiment Foot

4th Brigade (Major-General the Earl of Cavan)

1st bat/20th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col George Smith)

2nd bat/20th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Philip Bainbridge)

63rd Regiment Foot

5th Brigade (Colonel MacDonald)

23rd Regiment Foot

55th Regiment Foot

3RD DIVISION (Lieutenant-General Sir David Dundas)

6th Brigade (Major-General Sir John Pitt, Earl of Chatham)

1st bat/4th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Hodgson) [594]

2nd bat/4th Regiment Foot (Lt-Cols Dickson, and Cholmondley) [541]

3rd bat/4th Regiment Foot [540]

31st Regiment Foot [794]

7th Brigade (Major-General Frederick William, Duke of Gloucester)

1st bat/5th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Stephenson) [386]

2nd bat/5th Regiment Foot [466]

1st bat/35th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Oswald) [607]

2nd bat/35th Regiment Foot [614]

8th Brigade (Major-General Manners)

1st bat/9th Regiment Foot [624]

2nd bat/9th Regiment Foot (Lt-Col Crew) [625]

56th Regiment Foot [676]

ARTILLERY [474] 3rd Battalion (detachment)

4th Battalion (detachment)

CAVALRY BRIGADE (Colonel Lord Henry William Paget)

4 sq/7th Regiment Light Dragoons (Colonel Lord Henry William Paget)

4 sq/11th Regiment Light Dragoons [540]

2 sq/18th Regiment Light Dragoons (Lt-Col Stewart)

A-Troop Horse Artillery [342]

GARRISON AT DEN HELDER:

69th Regiment Foot

Marines (including 180 Russians)

RUSSIAN ARMY ²⁾

Commander in Chief of the Russian troops: Lieutenant-General Ivan Ivanowitch Hermann

Commander of the artillery: Major-General Kaptzévitch

1ST DIVISION (Lieutenant-General Petr Nikolaevich Jérebtzov)

Brigade Suthoff

1st Jégerski (Jäger) of Suthoff (1 battalion) [376]

Tavritcheski Grenadiers (Rgt of Benckendorf; 2 battalions) [1,516]

Tobolski Musketeers (Rgt of Fersen; 2 battalions) [1,542]

Regimental artillery [144] ³⁾

Field artillery of Captain Dournovo (1 company, 8 guns) [101]

Brigade Emmé

Fanagoriiski Grenadiers (Rgt of Jérebtzov; 2 battalions) [1,551]

Comb. Grenadiers: Bat. ‘Ericsson’ (1 battalion) [622] ⁴⁾

Regimental artillery [177] ³⁾

Field artillery (Battalion Kaptzévitch; 1 company, 8 guns) [305]

Cavalry

Life Guard Hussars of Lt-Col Sladkoff (1 squadron) [71]

Life Guard Cossacks (1 squadron) [45]

Leib-Sotnia of the Ural Cossacks (1 squadron) [62]

Company Pioneers of Captain Dreyer (1 company) [125]

2ND DIVISION (Major-General Ivan (Magnus Gustav) Nikolaevich Essen-I)

Brigade Arbénev

1st Jégerski of Suthoff (1 battalion) [368]

Dniéprovski Musketeers (Rgt Arbénev; 2 battalions) [1,546]

Comb. Grenadiers: Battalion ‘Strick’ (1 battalion) [627] ⁴⁾

Regimental artillery [142] ³⁾

Field artillery of Lt-Col Dournovo (1 company, 8 guns) [222]

Brigade Sedmoratzki

Bélozerski Musketeers (Rgt of Sedmoratzki; 2 battalions) [1,576]

Comb. Grenadiers: Battalion ‘Ossipov’ (1 battalion) [643] ⁴⁾

Comb. Grenadiers: Battalion ‘Timoféev’ (1 battalion) [633] ⁴⁾

Regimental artillery [123] ³⁾

Cavalry

Life Guard Hussars of Lt-Col Gladki (1 squadron) [45]

Life Guard Don Cossacks (1 squadron) [25]

Company Pioneers of Captain Dreyer (detachment) [54]

Footnotes:

1) Composed of the flank companies of six infantry regiments.

2) Mainly based on Miliutin (Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky), “Geschichte des Krieges Rußlands mit Frankreich unter der Regierung Kaiser Paul’s I im Jahre 1799” V. Bd., VII Theil (München 1858) [nach dem Russischen Originale in’s Deutsche übertragen vor Chr. Schmitt] pp.275-276.

3) Each infantry battalion was accompanied by regimental artillery; one gun for each jager battalion, two guns for each grenadier- or musketeer battalion. According to Miliutin the Russian regimental artillery had a total of 36 guns.

4) The combined grenadier battalions were named after their commander:

1. Battalion of Lt-Col Ericsson ("Ericson"/"Grikson"/”Erikson”)

2. Battalion of Lt-Col Mitiouchin ("Matusjen"/"Mit(i)us(c)hin")

3. Battalion of Lt-Col Ogarev ("Ogarew"/"Ogaref"/"Ogonieff")

4. Battalion of Lt-Col Ossipov (”Osipov”/”Osjipof"/”Ossipof"/"d'Ossipoff")

5. Battalion of Lt-Col Strick ("Strik"/”Shtrik”)

6. Battalion of Lt-Col Timoféev ("Timoféef"/"Timotlieff")

Their composition was as follows:

1. Grenadier companies of the Compte Elmpt (ex-General Arkharov) Musketeers and Iéletzki Musketeers.

2. Grenadier companies of the Pavlovski Grenadiers and Bélozerski Musketeers.

3. Grenadier companies of the Kozlovski Musketeers and Schlusselbourgski Musketeers.

4. Grenadier companies of the Sofiiski Musketeers and Tchernigovski Musketeers.

5. Grenadier companies of the Tavritcheski Grenadiers and St. Péterbourgski Grenadiers.

6. Grenadier companies of the Dniéprovski Musketeers and Tobolski Musketeers.

Sources:

This Order of Battle has been composed out of numerous sources, although for the Russian Milliutin has mainly been used. For an extensive list of the sources used, see pp.175-181 of my book about this campaign, “Voorwaarts, Bataven! De Engels-Russische invasie van 1799” (Zaltbommel 1999) ISBN 90 288 1427 2.

© Geert van Uythoven