The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 : $b including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to itBoyle, John, active 1867
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The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 : $b including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it
Boyle, John, active 1867
Ireland -- History -- War of 1689-1691
Two parallel lines, somewhat over two miles in length, a considerable
distance apart, arranged in four divisions, each consisting of a
front and rear line under the command of its respective brigade and
regimental commanders, constituted his entire army and array of battle.
Beginning at the northern or right flank, and passing to the left, each
division, front and rear, stood in the order following:[71]
FIRST DIVISION, front:--Levison, Winn, Oxford, Langster,
Ruvigny, and Villers; rear:--Cunningham, Winn, Lanier, Wolseley, and
Byerly. The front line of this division was under the command of
Lieutenant-General Scravenmore and Brigadier Villers, and its rear
under that of Major-General Ruvigny and Brigadier Levison.
THE SECOND DIVISION, front, presents the regiments of Kirke,
Gustavus Hamilton, Herbert, Lord George Hamilton, Foulke, Bellasis, and
Brewer; and its rear those of Stuart, Earle, Tiffin, St. John, Lisburn,
and Meath; the former commanded by Major-General Mackay and Brigadier
Bellasis, and the latter by Major-General Talmash and Brigadier
Stuart.[72]
THE THIRD DIVISION, front:--La Mellioneire, Du Cambon,
Belcastle, Greben, Danish, Danish, Danish; rear:--Nassau, Lloyd,
Prince of Hesse, Lord Cutts, Danish, Danish, Danish.[73] It is scarcely
necessary to remark that the troops of this division were all foreign,
being composed of Danes and Huguenots; the front line under the
direction of Major-General Tettau and Brigadier La Mellioneire, and
the rear under that of Major-General Count Nassau and the Prince of
Hesse--a Brigadier.
THE FOURTH DIVISION:--Nearly all foreign too, stood in this
order; front:--La Forrest, Schested, Donop, Doncour, Monpouillon, and
Eppinger; rear:--Schack, Nienhouse, Zulistein, Reedefel, Ginckle, and
Eppinger; the former under Major-General La Forrest and Brigadier
Eppinger, and the latter under Major-General Holstaple and Brigadier
Schack.--The whole was under the command of Lieutenant-General Ginckle,
now Earl of Athlone,[74] and the Prince, or Duke, of Wurtemberg.
Of this long array of names, none represented less than a regiment,
while many of them stood in front of a brigade. For instance: Ruvigny's
place represents two regiments; Cunningham's two; Stuart's three;
Wolseley's four; Brigadier Ginckle's two; Eppinger's two; and so on
to between sixty and seventy regiments. And taking the lower number,
sixty, and averaging the horse and foot at 500 [75] to a regiment, we
deduce a force that cannot, by any legitimate computation, be set down
at less than 30,000 men.
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