War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
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Order of battle, 1746, Low Countries
Ordre de battaille / de l’Armée Alliée aux Pais bas sous les Ordres de / Son Altesse Roijale Monseigneur le Duc Charles de Lorraine en chef. 1746
1746 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | 24.7 x 34.9 cm (image) | RCIN 730006
This shows a slightly different arrangement to RCIN 730005, with the addition of a key, below the order of battle, which explains the colour coding of the ‘Imperiaux’ (red/white), ‘Anglois’ (green/white), ‘Hannoveriens’ (yellow/red), ‘Hessois’ (white/blue), and ‘Hollandois’ (red/blue); this is followed by an ‘Extrait’ which gives the numbers of troops. In a continental hand.
The Dutch squadrons and battalions which were shown as Dutch on RCIN 730005, are here coloured as Hessian; equally, all the Hessian units are coloured as if they were Dutch. The colouring must, therefore, be in error on this order of battle.
Condition: nine fold lines, formerly folded to 7.0 x 8.2 cm; trimmed; several small tears along the folds. Verso: a few brown ink spots; surface dirt on outside fold panels.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Cropped: top part only: fleur-de-lys in shield, crown above
Mark, stamped: 489
Condition: nine fold lines, formerly folded to 7.0 x 8.2 cm; trimmed; several small tears along the folds. Verso: a few brown ink spots; surface dirt on outside fold panels
24.3 x 34.5 cm (neatline)
24.7 x 34.9 cm (image)
25.5 x 35.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Ordre de battaille / de l’Armée Alliée aux Pais bas sous les Ordres de / Son Altesse Roijale Monseigneur le Duc Charles de Lorraine en chef. 1746
Annotations:
George III heading: Order of Battle 1746.
Other annotations (Recto) [top right, ink:] 1746. (Verso) [top left, red pencil:] 10/8 [the ‘8’ is crossed out in black pencil]; [top left, black pencil, cropped:] XI/[?20].
George III catalogue entry:
Order of Battle Ordre de Bataille de l’Armée Alliée aux Pais Bas sous les ordres du Duc Charles de Lorraine, 1746. MS.
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