[31] 'The troops acquitted themselves with a bravery surpassing all that could have been hoped of them.'--_Marlborough's Despatch._ [32] War-Office Records. [33] 'The headmost regiments of English Horse that pursued the enemy's centre were those of Major-General Wood, commanded by himself, and Wyndham's Carabiniers, headed by Major Pertry. When they came upon a rising ground they espied seven squadrons of the Spanish and Bavarian Guards, with whom the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal Villeroy hoped to make good their retreat and save their cannon, which was marching in a line before them. General Wood gallopped with his own regiment upon the enemy's left, and charged them so vigorously that he broke them all to pieces, killing many of them and taking not a few prisoners, amongst whom were two Lieut.-Colonels, one Major, four Captains, with several subalterns and men. _He took also the Standard of the Elector's Guard_, two of the Elector's own Trumpeters, and killed his Kettle-Drummer, the Elector himself and Marshal Villeroy narrowly escaping.'--_Annals of Queen Anne._ [34] 'One of the Lieut.-Colonels, who was much wounded, remembering me last war, cried out to me to save his life, which I did. The other Lieut.-Colonel came to me and yielded himself prisoner also. Both these assured me the day after the battle, that the Elector himself and Marshal Villeroy were in the crowd, and not ten yards from me when they two called out to me for quarter, and that they narrowly escaped us; which, had I been so fortunate as to have known, I had strained Coriolanus (on whom I rid all the day of the battle) to have made them prisoners.'--_Extract of a Letter from Lieut.-General Wood._ [35] War-Office Records. [36] London Gazette. [37] Now the First, Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Dragoon Guards. [38] Major-General Webb received the thanks of Parliament for his excellent defence of the convoy. [39] War Office Records. [40] War Office Records. [41] The Tenth Horse was raised in February, 1693, and disbanded after the peace of Utrecht. [42] War-Office Records, London Gazette, &c. &c. [43] Annals of George I., vol. iii., p. 179. [44] The following corps were encamped on Lexdon Heath: Horse--Pembroke's, Montague's, and Wade's (First, Second, and Third Dragoon Guards); Dragoons--Hawley's, Campbell's, Honeywood's, and Cadogan's (First, Second, Third and Sixth); with seven regiments of Foot, viz., Third, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third, and Thirty-first. [45] War-Office Establishment Book. [46] List of cavalry corps of the right wing under Lord George Sackville, at the battle of Minden. _1st Brigade._--Blues, 1st Dragoon Guards, and Inniskilling Dragoons. _2nd Brigade._--3rd Dragoon Guards, Scots Greys, and 10th Dragoons. Hanoverian Regiments of Bremen and Veltheim.--_History of the Campaign in Germany._