Paoli order of battle

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The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Paoli during the American Revolutionary War.

Contents

[edit] American Army

Lincoln's Division [1]
Brigader General Anthony Wayne
Staff

  • Brigade Major Michael Ryan

1st Pennsylvania Brigade
Colonel Thomas Hartley

  • Brigade Major William Nichols
1st Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel James Chambers
2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Major William Williams
7th Pennsylvania Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel David Grier
10th Pennsylvania Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hubley
Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Connor

2nd Pennsylvania Brigade[2]
Colonel Richard Humpton

4th Pennsylvania Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel William Butler
5th Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Francis Johnston
8th Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Daniel Brodhead
11th Pennsylvania Regiment, Major Francis Mentges

Additional units

Randall's Independant Company of Artillery, Captain Thomas Randall
Count Pulaski's Corps of Light Dragoons, Major Julius Count Montfort
1st Continental Dragoons, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Temple
2nd Continental Dragoons, Captain Josiah Stoddard

[edit] British Army

Main Column
Major General Charles Grey

2nd Battalion Light Infantry, Major John Maitland
42nd Regiment (two battalions), Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stirling
44th Regiment, Major Henry Hope Riflemen (probably remants of Ferguson's Corps)
Company of light infantry
Detachment, 16th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, Major Francis Gwyn

Detachment
Lieutenat Colonel Thomas Musgrave

40th Regiment
50th Regiment

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Major General Benjamin Lincoln was sent to the Northern Army earlier in 1777, so Wayne, commanding the 1st Brigade, assumed command.
  2. ^ Brigader General Philip De Haas was assigned to command this brigade but never assumed command and soon resigned his commission after his February 1777 commission.

[edit] Sources

  • McGuire, Thomas J. Battle of Paoli. Stackpole Books, 2000. Mechanicsburg, PA ISBN 0-8117-0198-0