Battle of Lundy's Lane - Orders of Battle

Orders of Battle

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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

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