”The Marquis de Miremont’s dragoons passed review at Bruges, 15th August 1698:—
| Sergeants. | Drummers. | Sentinels. | |
| Colonel’s Company | 2 | 1 | 32 |
| Lieutenant-Colonel’s | 2 | 1 | 233 |
| Captain Tanquitt’s | 2 | 2 | 234 |
| Captain Addée’s | 2 | 2 | 32 |
| Captain Minault’s | 2 | 2 | 27 |
| Captain Brivaque’s | 2 | 2 | 33 |
| Major’s Company | 2 | 2 | 40 |
| Compte Movie’s | 2 | 2 | 36 |
| 16 | 14 | 267” |
Staff.
Armand de Miremont, colonel.
Jean de Sayary, lieut.-colonel.
Charles Couteaud, major.
Francois Durand, chaplain.
Pierre Batigne, agent.
Philippe St. Sevin, chirurgien.
Pierre Aurelle, ajudant.
Capitaines.
Jaques de Lestauquette.
Francois Menival.
Louis Boisragon.
Daniel Addée.
William Maurice.
Lieutenants.
Estienne Degulhon (brevet captain.) Captain-Lieutenant
Pierre Chalamel. Captain-Lieutenant
Pierre Le Clercq. Captain-Lieutenant
Pierre Monfort.
Pierre Du Fossat.
Joseph Davessen.
Samuel Dussoul.
Jean Monledier.
Cornettes.
Marc Anthoine De Mezerac.
Frederic Anthoine Haebreitt.
Pierre de Senegas.
Reboul de Lonpré.
Abel de Castelfranc.
Josué Dufaye.
Estienne Petitot.
Jaques Limarest.
Dupon (nouvellement arrivé de France ou il etoit cornet le de dragons; il est frère de Mr. de Brugierè, qui estoit Major en Piemont et sur le Rhin).
Quartermasters.
Pierre Ribot.
Pierre Guichcnon.
Jaques Michel.
Jaques Pontbisson.
Pierre Armand.
Olivier Malherbe.
Jean Boueherie.
Jean Cailhot.
Cadets.
Jean Clausade.
Francois Degulhon.
Jean Lagrave.
Pierre Layard.
David Masuer.
Gedeon de Castelfranc (succeeded Haebreitt as cornet).
Philipe Duval.
Louis Duval.
Frederic Dumeny.
Louis de St. Loup.
Suzar Thomas.
Jean Gerbés.
Jean Bertrand.
There is a petition to the King from Charles Coutaud, Major of Dragoons in Barthazar’s, afterwards Miremont’s, praying to be allowed to join his wife and three children at Morges, in Switzerland, without forfeiting his pension, he promising to obey his Majesty’s summons to active service at any time, which summons could be sent through the Ambassador at Berne or through the Marquis d’Arzilliers, resident at Geneva. The petitioner represents that his brother, along with his wife, was executed during the persecutions in France, leaving three orphan children adopted by the petitioner and dependent upon him.
The senior officer of Miremont’s Dragoons on half-pay in 1719 was Lieutenant-Colonel John de Savary. Its half-pay in that year amounted to £605, and in 1722 to £597.
6. Observations on the Huguenot Soldiers as a Body.
These five regiments represent the bulk of the French military refugees.[1] They were disbanded in 1699; but in the wars of Queen Anne they reappeared under new colonels, reinforced by subalterns of a younger generation.
- ↑ Trenchard, in his pamphlet against Standing Armies, greatly exaggerated the number of French refugee soldiers. I copy his tabular statement:—
No of Companies. Officers. Non-Commissioned Officers. Privates. Total. Galway’s Horse, 9 113 45 531 689 Miremonts’s Dragoons, 8 74 144 480 698 Matton’s Foot, 13 83 104 780 967 Galway’s Horse, 13 83 104 780 967 La Melionère’s do., 13 83 104 780 967 Belcastel’s do., 13 83 104 780 967 436 501 3351 4288
