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==Introduction==
This text is a reproduction of tables published by Christian Rogge in "The French & Allied Armies in Germany during the Seven Years War".
==Description==
On May 26, the Allied army assembled by [[Ferdinand of Brunswick]] for his planned offensive on the Lower Rhine was deployed into four distinct camps. It consisted of about 40,000 men (42 bns, 59 sqns and some light troops). The remainder was left behind along the line of communications. The bulk of the Hanoverian Jäger Corps was probably accompanying this army.
===Prince Ferdinands Main Force in the Camp of Nottuln===

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|'''Infantry''' (total 30 bns)

*Hanoverian infantry
**[[Hanoverian Foot Guards|Garde]] (2 bns)
**[[Block Infantry|Block]] (1 bn)
**[[Sporken Infantry|Spörcken]] (1 bn)
**[[Chevallerie Infantry|Oberg]] (1 bn)
**[[Brunck Infantry|Brunck]] (1 bn)
**[[Kielmannsegg Infantry|Kielmannsegg]] (1 bn)
**[[Diepenbroick Infantry|Diepenbroick]] (1 bn)
**[[Grote Infantry|Grote]] (1 bn)
**[[Wangenheim Infantry|Wangenheim]] (1 bn)
**[[Hardenberg Infantry|Hardenberg]] (1 bn)
**[[Jung Zastrow Infantry|Jung Zastrow]] (1 bn)
**[[Fabrice Infantry|Scheele]] (1 bn)
**[[Cheusses Infantry|Dreves]] (1 bn)
**[[Knesebeck Infantry|Reden]] (1 bn)
**[[Hodenberg Infantry|Behr]] (1 bn)
**[[Stolzenberg Infantry|Stolzenberg]] (1 bn)
**[[Hauß Infantry|Linstrow]] (1 bn)
**[[Halberstadt Infantry|Fersen Fusiliers]] (1 bn)
*Hessian infantry
**Leib-Grenadiers (1 bn) ''maybe the [[Hessian Grenadier-Regiment|Grenadier-Regiment]]''
**[[Hessian Erbprinz Infantry|Erbprinz von Hessen]] (1 bn)
**[[Haudring Infantry|Capellan]] (1 bn)
*Brunswick infantry
**[[Brunswick Leib-Regiment|Leib-Regiment]] (2 bns)
**[[Imhoff Infantry|Imfoff]] (2 bns)
**[[Behr Infantry|Behr]] (2 bns)
**[[Brunswick Zastrow Infantry|Zastrow]] (1 bn)
||'''Cavalry''' (34 sqns)

*Hanoverian cavalry
**[[Hanoverian Garde du Corps|Garde du Corps]] (1 sqn)
**[[Hanoverian Grenadiers à cheval|Grenadiere zu Pferde]] (1 sqn)
**[[Busche Dragoons|Busch Dragoner]] (4 sqns)
**[[Bock Dragoons|Bock Dragoner]] (4 sqns) transferred to Wangenheim's corps on May 27
**[[Breidenbach Dragoons|Breidenbach Dragoner]] (4 sqns)
**[[Dachenhausen Dragoons|Dachenhausen Dragoner]] (4 sqns)
**[[Hammerstein Cavalry|Hammerstein]] (2 sqns)
**[[Dachenhausen Cavalry|Drachenhausen]] (2 sqns)
**[[Hanoverian Leib-Regiment Reuter|Leib-Regiment]] (2 sqns)
**[[Grothaus Cavalry|Grothaus]] (2 sqns)
**[[Walthausen Cavalry|Reden]] (2 sqns)
**[[Hodenberg Cavalry|Hodenberg]] (2 sqns)
**[[Gilten Cavalry|Breidenbach]] (2 sqns)
**[[Zepelin Cavalry|Sköln]] (2 sqns)
|}
===Camp of Coesfeld at the orders of major-general prince von Anhalt===

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|'''Infantry''' (6 bns)

*Hanoverian infantry
**[[Drachtleben Infantry|Druchtleben]] (1 bn)
**[[Post Infantry|Post]] (1 bn)
**[[Ledebour Infantry|Bock]] (1 bn)
*Hessian infantry
**[[Mansbach Infantry|Mansbach]] (1 bn)
**[[Prinz von Anhalt Infantry|Prinz Anhalt]] (1 bn)
**[[Fürstenberg Infantry|Fürstenberg]]  (1 bn)
||'''Cavalry''' (6 sqns)

*Hessian cavalry
**[[Hessian Leib Cavalry|Leib-Regiment]] (2 sqns)
**[[Prinz Wilhem Erbprinz Cavalry|Prinz Wilhelm]] (2 sqns)
**[[Miltitz Cavalry|Miltitz]] (2 sqns)
|}

===Camp of Dülmen, at the orders of [[Holstein-Gottorp, Georg Ludwig Duke zu|Lieutenant-General Prince von Holstein-Gottorp===

{|
|- valign="top"
|'''Infantry''' (2 bns)

*Hessian infantry
**[[Hessian Garde|Garde]] (1 bn)
**[[Prinz Karl Infantry|Prinz Karl]] (1 bn)
||'''Cavalry''' (19 sqns)

*Prussian cavalry
**[[Ruesch Hussars|Ruesch Husaren]] (3 sqns)
**[[Malachowski Hussars|Malachowski Husaren]] (2 sqns)
**[[Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons|Holstein Dragoner]] (5 sqns)
**[[Finckenstein Dragoons|Finckenstein Dragoner]] (5 sqns)
*Hessian cavalry
**[[Hessian Leib Dragoons|Leib-Dragoner]] (4 sqns)
|}

===Camp of Dorsten, at the orders of major-general von Wangenheim===

{|
|- valign="top"
|'''Infantry''' (4 bns)

*Hanoverian infantry
**[[Scheither Infantry|Scheiter]] (1 bn)
**[[Zandre Infantry|Halberstadt]] (1 bn)
*Hessian infantry
**[[Hanau Infantry|Hessen-Hanau]] (1 bn)
*Bückeburg infantry
**[[Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg Infantry|Bückeburg]] (1 bn)
||'''Cavalry''' (4 sqns)

*Hanoverian cavalry
**[[Bock Dragoons|Bock Dragoner]] (4 sqns) transferred from Ferdinand's corps on May 27
||'''Light Troops'''

*Hanoverian light troops
**[[Luckner's Hussars|Luckners Husaren Corps]] (1 sqn)
**[[Scheither Light Troops|Scheither Corps]] (360 men) (''newly raised'')
**[[Freytag Jägers|Jägers]] (160 men)
|}
==References==
Rogge, Christian, The French & Allied Armies in Germany during the Seven Years War, Frankfurt, 2006

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