Fontenoy

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The Battle
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French Order of Battle:

Commander-in-Chief
(Field Command only, the King being present on the Battlefield)

• Marechal Comte Maurice de Saxe.

French left wing General Lutteaux.

• Grassins a Pied Regiment(Foot)

• Grassins a Cheval (Cavalry)

• Normandie Regiment (Foot)

• Corsican Regiment (Foot)

• Bulkeley Regiment (Foot) Irish

• Dillon Regiment (Foot) Irish

• Berwick Regiment (Foot) Irish

• Lally Regiment (Foot) Irish

• Clare regiment (Foot) Irish

• Rooth Regiment (Foot) Irish

French Centre General Chabannes.

• Regiment d’Eau (Foot) holding the Redoubt of the same name.

• Garde Swiss Regiment (Foot)

• Garde Francais Regiment (Foot)

• Audettere Regiment (Foot)

• D’Ouroy Regiment (Foot).Courten Regiment (Foot)

• Three Field Batteries of 6 guns each-6pdrs

Second Line Centre Reserve, General d’Estrees.

• Royal de Vaisseaux Regiment (Foot)

• Hainault Regiment (Foot)

• Royale regiment (Foot)

• Soissonais’s Regiment (Foot).Royal Couronne Regiment (Foot)

• Audettere Regiment (Foot)

• Two Field Batteries of 6 guns each-4pdrs

Fontenoy Garrison, General Vauguyon.

• Dauphin Regiment (Foot)

• Beauvoisis Regiment (Foot)

• Two Field Batteries of 6 guns each- 6pdrs, devided to cover approaches to village

French Right Wing Commanded by General Montagne.

• Diesbach Regiment (Foot)

• Bethens Regiment (Foot)

• Crillon Regiment (Foot)

• Dismounted Dragoons Regiments, Mestre de Camp,Royaux, de Beaufremont.

• Field Battery 6 guns-4pdrs

• Redoubts Garrisoned by companies of Grenadiers from the above Regiments

• Redoubt guns, 4 to each-4pdrs

Antoing Garrison, General La Marck

• Piemont Regiment (Foot)

• De la Marine Regiment (Foot)

• Biron Regiment (Foot)

• Three Field Batteries of 6 guns each-4pdrs

Reserve Infantry on French Left Wing, General Comte de Lowenthal.

• Touraine Regiment (Foot)

• Nivernois Regiment (Foot)

• Auvergne Regiment (Foot)

• Field Battery 6 guns-4pdrs

French Cavalry Commander, General Clermont-Tonnerre.

• Left wing reserve General du Chayla.

• Egmont Dragoon Regiment

• Roussillon Dragoon Regiment

• Prince Camille Regiment

• Carabiniers Regiment

• De la Garde regiment

• Chevaux legers de la Garde Regiment

• Mousquetiers Regiment

• Grenadiers Cheval de la Garde Regiment

• Garde du Roi Regiment

French centre and right wing cavalry commanded by, General Clermont-Prince.

• Royal Cravattes Regiment

• De Fiennes regiment

• De Brancas Regiment

• Fitzjames Regiment

• Colonel-General Regiment

• Clermont-Prince Regiment

Reserve cavalry French centre commanded by General Richelieu.

• Masion du Roi Regiment

• Clermont-Tonnerre Regiment

• Les Cuirassiers Regiment

• Egmont Regiment

• Orleans regiment

• Tallyrand Regiment

Covering the intervals between the three redoubts on the French right, General Herouville.

• Barry Dragoon Regiment

• Noailles Regiment

• Penthievre Regiment

• Chabrillont Regiment

• Royal Etranger Regiment

• Berry regiment

• Artillery on the East bank of the Scheldt River-Field Battery of 12pdrs, 6 guns