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sixth and seventh brigades. Last of all came the eighth brigade, of 
Lord Granby’s cavalry and gallopers. 1 
The 12-prs. had seven horses per gun (87), the 6-pr. brigades five, 
the battalion guns two, with man harness; and the galloper guns three 2 
—a revolution in carriages, limbers, and gun weights since the campaign 
of 1745, when the flag gun was only a 6-pr., yet required nine horses, 
the light 6-pr. seven horses, the gallopers four. (“ Oleaveland MSS./’ 
14/4/1745): two heavy 12-prs. and two 8-in. howitzers of the “position” 
artillery were detached during the battle to assist in silencing the 
enemy’s batteries at Eickhorst and Thonhausen . 3 
The accompanying representation of the heavy field brigade—drawn 
in 1786 by Colonel (afterwards Sir William) Congreve, 14.A.-—shows 
the peace establishment of six horses only. 
The Battle. 
At 8 a.m. the enemy began to attack Hille, by a battery of six pieces 
and by troops, as a feint; which Ferdinand disregarded, as he had 
amply provided for its defence. (“Campaigns,” p. 100). 
At 3 a.m., 1st August, Ferdinand ascertained that the enemy had 
begun to deploy upon the plain, with their cavalry in the centre, with 
their infantry split in two on right and left rear of their cavalry, and 
on the wings of their infantry two heavy field brigades of 10 and 30 
pieces, the former, at Malbergen, crossing its fire with that of the latter. 4 
At 5 a.m. the allied right had got under arms. 
At 6 a.m. Drummond’s and Foy’s brigades of Royal Artillery, at 
Hartun and Halem, opened fire upon, and ultimately succeeded in 
driving the enemy out of two batteries they had erected there 
during the night; and so accurately had the French got the ranges 
that they raked these two columns on the march (“Roy,” 101). At 
same hour the six British infantry regiments and the two Hanoverians 
began to defile through the wood, and formed up as follows :■— 
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12th Regiment. 23rd Regiment. 37th Regiment. 
20th „ 25th „ 51st 
Saxe-Gotha Regiment. Hanoverian Guards. 
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with orders to await for arrival of the 12-pr. brigade of the first line—• 
Ferdinand apparently intending to order up this brigade so soon as the 
positions at Hartun and Halem had been secured. 5 But knowing, from 
the firing, that Drummond and Foy were engaged, and the infantry 
having moved off through the wood, while as yet no orders from 
Ferdinand had arrived for the 12-pr. artillery (78, 84), Macbean put 
his 12-prs. in motion at 6.30 without orders (83), on which Phillips 
1 “ Campaigns,” pp. 99, 100. £c Court-Martial ” evidences ubi supra 
2 MSS., Order of March, in E.A. Institution. 
3 “ Campaigns,” p. 100. <£ Court-Martial,” p. 27. 
4 ££ Campaigns,” p. 101. ££ Cleaveland MSS.,” item 1st August 
5 ££ Guerre de Sept Ans ” (Decker), pp. 268, 269. 
