The First Foot Guards
We are a Revolutionary War
reenactment group based in Boston MA,
accurately portraying the royal household regiment that is now known as
The Grenadier Guards
Order of Battle
New
York City August 1776
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Pennsylvania
Campaign 1777
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Commander-in Chief
Sir William Howe
Lieutenant General Clinton
Brigadier General Leslie
2nd Battalion Light Infantry
3rd Battalion Light Infantry
1st Battalion Light Infantry
Brigadier General Cleveland
2nd Brigade Artillery
3rd Brigade Artillery
1st Brigade Artillery
FIRST LINE
Major General Pigott
2nd Brigade
28th, 49th, 35th, 5th Regiments
Major General Agnew
6th Brigade
44th, 64th, 57th, 23rd Regiments
Major General Smith
5th Brigade
22nd, 54th, 63rd, 43rd Regiments
Major General Robertson
1st Brigade
4th, 27th, 45th, 15th,
Major
General Mathew
Guards
2nd Battalion Guards (combined)
1st Battalion Guards (combined)
Cavalry on the flanks
SECOND LINE
Lieutenant General Earl Percy
Brigadier General Erskine
Major General Grant
4th Brigade
40th, 35th, 46th, 17th Regiments
1st Battalion 71st Regiment
3rd Battalion 71st Regiment
2nd Battalion 71st Regiment
Major General Jones
3rd Brigade
10th, 38th, 57th Regiments
RESERVE CORPS
Lieutenant General Cornwallis
Major General Vaughan
2nd Battalion Grenadiers
4th Battalion Grenadiers
3rd Battalion Grenadiers
4th Battalion Grenadiers, 33rd
HESSIAN DIVISION
Lieutenant General von Heister
Major General von Mirbach
Lossberg
Rall
Knyphausen
Major General von Stirn
Erbprinz
Mirbach
Donop
Major General von Donop
Linsingen
Minegerode
Block
Major General von Lossberg
Trumbach
Ditfurth
Major General the Hon
Sir William Howe, KB
Artillery
Detachments from several companies of the 4th & 5th Battalions, royal artillery
under Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Cleveland
General
Knyphausen's Column
One Squadron, 16th Light Dragoons
Major General Vaughan
1st Brigade
4th, 5th, 23rd, 49th Regiments
Major General Grant
2nd Brigade
10th, 27th, 28th, 40th Regiments
Major General Stirn
Linsing, Lengkerke, Leib, Mirbach
71st Highlanders
(this was the one and only regiment raised between 1776 and
Saratoga**)
Queen's Rangers
General
Cornwallis' Column
2 squadrons, 16th Light Dragoons
Mounted and dismounted chasseurs
Major General Grey ("no-flints"
Grey)
3rd Brigade
15th, 33rd, 44th, 55th Regiments
Major General Agnew
4th Brigade
17th, 37th, 46th, 64th Regiments
Foot
Guards, 2 battalions
Light Infantry, 2 Battalions
Grenadiers, 2 Battalions
Hessian Grenadiers, 3 Battalions
Ferguson's Corps of Riflemen
Hess-Cassel and Anspach Jagers
(divided between both columns)
In the British Army of 1775
there were
70 Regiments of Foot
and 3 regiments of Guards:
First Foot Guards
Second Foot Guards (Coldstream Guards)
Third Foot Guards (Scots Guards)
**The 71st was raised in 1776
In the spring of 1778 12 regiments were raised: 72-83rd
In the spring of 1779: 84th & 3 regts of Light Dragoons 19-21st
By fall of 1779: 85th-97th, and one of Light Dragoons(22nd)
By winter of 1780: 98-100th
1781: 101 &102nd
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