The following units and commanders fought at the Battle of Schellenberg on July 2, 1704.
The Battle of Schellenberg, also known as the Battle of Donauwörth, was fought on 2 July 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The engagement was part of the Duke of Marlborough's campaign to save the Habsburg capital of Vienna from a threatened advance by King Louis XIV's Franco-Bavarian forces ranged in southern Germany. Marlborough had commenced his 250-mile (400 km) march from Bedburg, near Cologne, on 19 May; within five weeks he had linked his forces with those of the Margrave of Baden, before continuing on to the river Danube. Once in southern Germany, the Allies' task was to induce Max Emanuel, the Elector of Bavaria, to abandon his allegiance to Louis XIV and rejoin the Grand Alliance; but to force the issue, the Allies first needed to secure a fortified bridgehead and magazine on the Danube, through which their supplies could cross to the south of the river into the heart of the Elector's lands. For this purpose, Marlborough selected the town of Donauwörth.
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Lieutenant General Johan Wijnand van Goor | Fergusson's Brigade (Scottish) |
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Beinheim's Brigade |
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Montfort's Brigade |
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Lieutenant General Henry Lumley | Wood's Brigade (English) |
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Ross's Brigade (English) |
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Lieutenant General Reinhard Vincent Graf von Hompesch | Schulenburg's Brigade (Dutch) |
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Auroch's Brigade |
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Noyelles' Brigade |
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General Charles Churchill
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Lieutenant General Richard Ingoldsby | Wither's Brigade (English) |
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Pallandt's Brigade |
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Lieutenant General Herbeville | Bernsdorf's Brigade (Hanoverian) |
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De Luc's Brigade (Hanoverian) |
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Lieutenant General Horn | Seckendorff's Brigade |
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St. Paul's Brigade (Hesse-Kassel) |
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Lieutenant General George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney | Hamilton's Brigade (English) |
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Wilken's Brigade (Hesse-Kassel) |
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Rantzau's Brigade (Hanoverian) |
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Lieutenant General Cuno Josua von Bülow | Hesse-Homberg's Brigade |
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Erbach's Brigade |
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Villers' Brigade (Hanoverians) |
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Colonel Holcroft Blood
Louis William, Margrave of Baden
General Johann Karl Graf von Thüngen
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Lieutenant General Graf von Frise | Fuchs' Brigade |
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Bevern's Brigade |
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Lieutenant General Graf von Furstenburg | Wald's Brigade (Franconian) |
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Reisbach's Brigade |
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General Hermann Otto II of Limburg Stirum (mw)
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Lieutenant General Baron von Bibra | Prinz Alexandre's Brigade |
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Cusani's Brigade (Austrian) |
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Prince von Württemberg | Mercy's Brigade (Austrian) |
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Erff's Brigade |
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Reserve | Fugger's Brigade |
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Bayreuth's Brigade |
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Bibra's Brigade |
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Montfort's Brigade |
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Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco
Second in command: Alessandro, Marquis de Maffei
Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco was a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall in the service of the Electorate of Bavaria during the Great Turkish War and the War of the Spanish Succession. He should not be confused with his contemporary Johann Philipp d'Arco, who fought on the opposite (Austrian) side in the latter conflict.
Alessandro Scipione, Marquis de Maffei, was an Italian Lieutenant General of Infantry in Bavarian service. He was the brother of the Italian writer and archaeologist Francesco Scipione.
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Infantry | French Brigade
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Bavarian Brigade
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Bavarian Brigade
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French Brigade
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De Bordet's Brigade |
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Artillery |
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Cavalry | Monasterol's Dragoon Brigade |
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Lieutenant General Torring Seefeld | Weickel's Brigade |
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De Costa's Brigade |
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