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VOL. IV. BOOK XII. CHAPTER X
1794.
April 16.
On the 16th of April, as had been arranged, the whole
of the main army was inspected by the Emperor on
the heights of Cateau. The British infantry was
represented, as in the last campaign, by three battalions
of Guards, with a fourth battalion formed out of
their flank-companies, and by Abercromby's brigade
of the Fourteenth, Thirty-seventh, and Fifty-third.
These last had at length received their first instalment
of recruits to make good their losses during
1793, in the shape of a draft which was described
as "much resembling Falstaff's men, and as
lightly clad as any Carmagnole battalion"[1] of the
French Army. The cavalry numbered twenty-eight
squadrons, drawn from fourteen regiments[2] and
- ↑ Calvert, p. 187.
- ↑ Three squadrons of the 1st Dragoon Guards, two squadrons each of the Blues, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th Dragoon Guards, 1st Royals, 2nd Greys, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, 7th, 11th, 15th, 16th Light Dragoons. The 8th and 14th Light Dragoons were embarked or embarking to join the army. It has been a matter of much difficulty to discover how these regiments were brigaded. Harcourt's Brigade. (?) 1st, 5th, 6th D.G. = 7 squadrons. Mansel's Brigade. (?) Blues, 3rd D.G., Royals = 6 squadrons. Laurie's Brigade. (certainly), Bays, Greys, Inniskillings = 6 squadrons. Ralph Dundas's Brigade. 7th, 11th, 15th, 16th Light Dragoons, 1st squadron of the Carbineers = 9 squadrons. After the death of Mansel on the 26th of April, Dundas took over his brigade, and Colonel Vyse took Dundas's. But the regiments seem to have been much shifted from one brigade to another. Calvert, pp. 197, 204. Cannon's Records, Royal Horse Guards, p. 102.
