Battle of Lundy's Lane - Orders of Battle

Orders of Battle

British order of battle American order of battle

Lieutenant General Sir Gordon Drummond

  • Right Division (Major General Phineas Riall)
    • 2nd (Light) Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Pearson)
      • Glengarry Light Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel Francis Battersby)
      • Upper Canada Incorporated Militia Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel William Robinson)
    • 1st Militia Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Love Parry)
      • Detachments from 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th Lincoln and 2nd York Militia Regiments
    • One troop, 19th Light Dragoons (Major Robert Lisle)
    • Provincial Dragoons (Merritt's Troop) (Captain William Hamilton Merritt)
    • Royal Artillery (Two 6-pounder guns, One 5.5-inch howitzer)
  • Drummond's column
    • 2nd Battalion, 89th Foot (Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Wanton Morrison)
    • Three companies, 1st Battalion, 1st Foot (Royal Scots) (Captain William Brereton)
    • Light company, 1st Battalion, 8th (King's) Foot (Captain Francis Campbell)
    • Light company 41st Foot (Captain Joseph B. Glew)
    • Artillery (Captain James MachLachlane)
      • Royal Artillery (Two light 24-pounder guns)
      • Royal Marine Artillery (Two Congreve rocket launchers)
  • Colonel Hercules Scott's Column
    • 1st Brigade (Colonel Scott)
      • 103rd Foot (Major William Smelt)
      • Five companies, 1st Battalion, 8th (King's) Foot (Major Thomas Evans)
      • Flank companies, 104th (New Brunswick) Foot (Captain Richard Leonard)
    • 2nd Militia Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hamilton)
      • Caldwell's Western Rangers
      • Detachments from 1st, 2nd Norfolk, 1st Essex, 1st Middlesex,
        4th, 5th Lincoln and 2nd York Regiments
    • Royal Artillery (Three 6-pounder guns) (Captain James Mackonochie)
  • Reserve (Lieutenant Colonel John Gordon)
    • Seven companies, 1st Battalion, 1st Foot (Royal Scots)

Note: the companies of the Royal Scots and 8th King's were very understrength, after the Battle of Chippawa earlier in the month.

Left Division (Major General Jacob Brown)

  • 1st Brigade (Brigadier General Winfield Scott)
    • 9th U.S. Infantry (Major Henry Leavenworth)
    • 11th U.S. Infantry Major (John McNeil)
    • 22nd U.S. Infantry (Colonel Hugh Brady)
    • 25th U.S. Infantry (Major Thomas Jesup)
    • Towson's Company U.S. Artillery (Two 6-pounder guns, One 5.5-inch howitzer)
  • 2nd Brigade (Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley)
    • 21st U.S. Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel James Miller)
      • 17th U.S.Infantry (one company)
      • 19th U.S. Infantry (one company)
    • 23rd U.S.Infantry (Major Daniel McFarland)
    • 1st U.S. Infantry (four companies) (Lieutenant Colonel Robert Nicholas)
  • 3rd (Militia) Brigade (Brigadier General Peter B. Porter)
    • 5th Pennsylvania Militia (Major James Wood)
    • New York Militia Volunteers (Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Dobbin)
    • Canadian Volunteers (approx. 1 company) (Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Willcocks
  • U.S. Artillery (Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Hindman)
    • Ritchie's Company (Two 6-pounder guns, One 5.5-inch howitzer)
    • Biddle's Company (Three 12-pounder guns)
  • Cavalry (Captain Samuel D. Harris)
    • Detachment, U.S. Dragoons
    • Troop, New York Volunteer Dragoons

Note: A company of three 18-pounder guns under Captain Alexander Williams and another of two 18-pounder guns under Lieutenant David Douglass could not be brought into action

Read more about this topic:  Battle Of Lundy's Lane

Famous quotes containing the words orders of, orders and/or battle:

    “Your money’s no good here. Orders of the house.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.”
    —Gregory the Great, Pope (c. 540–604)

    “If you are willing to inconvenience yourself in the name of discipline, the battle is half over. Leave Grandma’s early if the children are acting impossible. Depart the ballpark in the sixth inning if you’ve warned the kids and their behavior is still poor. If we do something like this once, our kids will remember it for a long time.”
    —Fred G. Gosman (20th century)