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of the allied infantry of the right never fired a shot before the French 
cavalry retreat (at 8.20 a.m.), and the glory of the day was reserved for 
six British infantry regiments with 12 battalion gnus, two regiments of 
Hanoverian infantry, .and three brigades of Royal Artillery, which, in 
the words of Lord George Sackville, “ will scarcely be credited in future 
ages/’ 1 2 
Minden, like Inkerman, was essentially a soldier's battle—the 
Generals {e proposed " overnight, but the soldiers “ disposed ” on the 
battle-field in the morning. 
IV. B.—Where the mere page is quoted, hereinafter , the reference is to the 
evidence of Minden commanders who id ere brought home in 1760 for the court- 
martial. 
On 29th July the allied army marched from Petershagen to head¬ 
quarter camp at Hille , fronting Holthausen, which was fortified by 
Ferdinand with the “position ” guns and 8-in. howitzers. On the 
night of the 31st, the right or first division was posted in the following 
order; but Ferdinand did not, and could not, on this occasion, as was his 
wont, explain to the General Officers his plan for attack in the morn¬ 
ing : - 
The hill of Hartun, on right front, was assigned to Captain Drum¬ 
mond’s light brigade of six 6-prs. and three howitzers; and the 
windmill of Ilalem hill to Captain Foy's light brigade of six 6-prs. and 
three howitzers—each supported by the Grenadiers (35, 78, 145). On 
left rear of Haleru was a wood, of thick tall trees, 100 yards broad and 
of length sufficient to screen the allied right from Minden; this wood 
screened Foy’s brigade from the British infantry (15, 30, 79). In rear 
of Foy, and 200 yards behind the wood, was the head of the right wing of 
the British cavalry (Lord Sackville as Commander-in-Ckief) with its 
3-prj gallopers; and in front of the wood were extensive corn-fields 
gradually sloping towards the very fine plain of Minden : the head of the 
cavalry was thus less than one mile distant from the spot where the infan¬ 
try became engaged in the morning (15, 23, 35,41, 72). In right rear of 
the first line, or Sackville’s cavalry, were 10 medium 12-prs. (including 
the flag gun) under Captains Macbean and Williams, 3 constituted as 
an independent column, but designed to act in concert with the 
infantry. 8 This was called the second brigade, the cavalry being the 
first. In left rear of the second were the third and fourth brigades, 
consisting of the six British infantry regiments with 12 battalion 6-pr. 
guns, and the Hanoverian Guards, with Hardenberg's Saxe-Gotha 
regiment to aid, the former the battalion and the latter the 12-pr. 
brigade; 4 * * * next came the fifth brigade, of six light 12-prs. and four 
heavy 6-prs. under Captain Phillips, commanding R.A., as front of the 
second or left wing, followed by some Hanoverian regiments of foot as 
1 “ Court-Martial,” pp. 175, 196. 
2 “ Campaigns of Prince Ferdinand,” p. 99. 
3 A role after Prince Kraft’s own heart.— cc Letters on Artillery,” pp. 73, 77, 127. 
Ferdinand, however, did not regard the Infantry as the Army , with Artillery as Auxiliary 
only; hut the two as co-ordinates. 
4 Events frustrated this aid, for Captain Machean stated that on unlimhering he could get only 
20 men from the Saxe-Gotha regiment which was too much, occupied (p. 85 of “ Court-Martial.”) 
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