Second Saratoga order of battle - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following units and commanders fought at the Second Battle of Saratoga, The Battle of Bemis Heights, on October 7, 1777.

British army

General John Burgoyne

John Burgoyne

General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....

Advanced corps

Brigadier Simon Fraser (killed)

24th Regiment: Major Robert Graves
Grenadier Battalion: Major John Dyke Acland, 20th Regiment
Light Infantry Battalion: Major Alexander Lindsey, Earl of Balcarres, 53rd Regiment
Ranger Company: Captain Alexander Fraser, 34th Regiment

Wing	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Right wing	1st Brigade Brigadier James Hamilton	20th Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel John Lind 21st Regiment: Major George Forster 62nd Regiment 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot The 62nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which was raised as a line regiment in 1756 and saw service through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... : Lieutenant Colonel John Ansruther
Right wing	2nd Brigade Brigadier Henry Powell	9th Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel John Hill 47th Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Sutherland 53rd Regiment: Major William Hughes
Left wing	1st Brigade General Johann Specht	von Rhetz (Braunschweiger Regiment): Major Carl von Ehrenkrook von Specht (Braunschweiger Regiment): Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Spaethe von Riedesel (Braunschweiger Regiment): General von Gall
Left wing	2nd Brigade	Prinz Friedrich (Braunschweiger Regiment): Lieutenant Colonel Christian Praetorius Erbprinz (Hesse-Hanau Regiment): General von Gall
Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann	Grenadier Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann Light Infantry Battalion Braunschweiger Jagers Company Braunschweiger Dragoon Regiment von Ludwig: Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum
Artillery Major Griffith Williams	Royal Irish Artillery Detachment 33rd Regiment detachment Hesse-Hanau Artillery company: Captain Georg Pausch Georg Pausch Georg Pausch was a Hessian soldier. He is noted for the journal he left describing the experiences and those of his company in Canada with Burgoyne's campaign. The campaign culminated in Burgoyne's surrender after the Battle of Saratoga.-Biography:Pausch was chief of the Hesse-Hanau artillery in...

American army

Major General Horatio Gates

Horatio Gates

Horatio Lloyd Gates was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga – Benedict Arnold, who led the attack, was finally forced from the field when he was shot in the leg – and...

Wing	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Left wing Major General Horatio Gates	Learned's Brigade Brigadier General Ebenezer Learned	2nd Massachusetts Regiment 2nd Massachusetts Regiment The 2nd Massachusetts Regiment was a unit of the Massachusetts Line in the 1777 establishment of the Continental Army. It was a successor to a number of Massachusetts provincial regiments from the army's 1775 establishment , and was known as the 23rd Continental Regiment during the 1776... : Colonel John Bailey 8th Massachusetts Regiment 8th Massachusetts Regiment The 8th Massachusetts Regiment also known as 16th Continental Regiment was raised on April 23, 1775 under Colonel Sargent at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton and the Battle of Saratoga... : Colonel Michael Jackson 9th Massachusetts Regiment 9th Massachusetts Regiment The 9th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line was created on November 1, 1776. The unit served until January 1, 1783 when, in compliance with the general order of December 24, 1782, the unit was disbanded.... : Colonel James Wesson Livington's New York Regiment: Colonel James Livington Evans' New Hampshire Militia: Colonel Stephan Evans
	Poor's Brigade Brigadier General Enoch Poor	1st New Hampshire Regiment 1st New Hampshire Regiment The 1st New Hampshire Regiment was an infantry unit that came into existence on 22 May 1775 at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. John Stark was the regiment's first commander. The unit fought at Chelsea Creek and Bunker Hill in 1775. On 1 January 1776, while engaged in the Siege of... : Colonel Joseph Cilley 2nd New Hampshire Regiment 2nd New Hampshire Regiment The 2nd New Hampshire Regiment, also known as the 8th Continental Regiment, was formed in early May of 1775, as the second of three Continental Army regiments raised by the state of New Hampshire during the American Revolutionary War. Its first commander was Colonel Enoch Poor, with Joseph Cilley... : Colonel Winborn Adams 3rd New Hampshire Regiment 3rd New Hampshire Regiment The 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, also known as the 2nd Continental Regiment, was authorized on 22 May 1775, organized 1-8 June 1775, and adopted into the Continental Army on 14 June, 1775, as the third of three regiments raised by the state of New Hampshire during the American Revolution... : Colonel Alexander Scammell 2nd New York Regiment 2nd New York Regiment The 2nd New York Regiment was authorized on May 25, 1775, and formed at Albany from June 28 to August 4 for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Goose Van Schaick... : Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt 4th New York Regiment 4th New York Regiment The 4th New York Regiment was authorized on May 25, 1775 and organized from June 28 to August 4 from Westchester, Dutchess, Kings, Queens, and Richmond counties for service with the Continental Army under the command of James Holmes... : Colonel Henry Beekman Livington Cook's Connecticut Militia: Colonel Thaddeus Cook Latimore's Connecticut Militia: Colonel Jonathan Latimore
	Ten Broeck's Brigade New York Militia Brigadier General Abraham Ten Broeck	1st Regiment: Colonel Jacob Lansing 3rd Regiment: Colonel Francis Nichol 4th Regiment: Colonel Robert Killian 5th Regiment: Colonel Gerrit G. Ven Den Bergh 6th Regiment: Colonel Stephen John Schuyler 7th Regiment: Colonel Abraham Van Alstine 9th Regiment: Colonel Peter Van Ness 10th Regiment: Colonel Henry Livington 11th Regiment: Colonel Anthony Van Bergen 12th Regiment: Colonel Jacobus Van Schonbeven 13th Regiment: Colonel John MacCrane Colonel John Knickerbacker's Regiment Colonel Lewis Van Woert's Regiment
Right Wing Major General Benjamin Lincoln Benjamin Lincoln Benjamin Lincoln was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...	Glover's Brigade Brigadier General John Glover	1st Massachusetts Regiment 1st Massachusetts Regiment The 1st Massachusetts Regiment was authorized on 23 April 1775 in the Massachusetts State Troops as Paterson's Regiment under Colonel John Paterson and was organized at Cambridge, colony of Massachusetts during the spring of 1775 constiting of eleven companies of volunteers from Berkshire,... : Colonel Joseph Vose 4th Massachusetts Regiment 4th Massachusetts Regiment The 4th Massachusetts Regiment also known as 3rd Continental Regiment was raised on April 23, 1775 under Colonel Ebenezer Learned outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of... : Colonel William Shepard 13th Massachusetts Regiment 13th Massachusetts Regiment The 13th Massachusetts Regiment was first raised on July 11, 1776 as the 6th Continental Regiment under Colonel Edward Wigglesworth and was manned with troops raised primarily from Essex, York, and Cumberland Counties. It was first known as Wigglesworth's State Regiment. An additional battalion was... : Colonel Edward Wigglesworth 15th Massachusetts Regiment 15th Massachusetts Regiment The 15th Massachusetts Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776 under Colonel Bigelow at Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Rhode Island. The regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1781 at West Point, New... : Colonel Timothy Bigelow 2nd Albany County Regiment New York Militia: Colonel Abraham Wemple 17th Albany County Regiment New York Militia: Colonel William Whiting Graham's Regiment of Dutchess & Ulster County New York Milittia: Colonel Morris Graham
	Nixon's Brigade Brigadier General John Nixon	3rd Massachusetts Regiment 3rd Massachusetts Regiment The 3rd Massachusetts Regiment also known as the 24th Continental Regiment was raised, on April 23, 1775, under Colonel William Heath outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Valcour Island and the Battle of... : Colonel John Greaton 5th Massachusetts Regiment 5th Massachusetts Regiment The 5th Massachusetts Regiment also known as the 27th Continental Regiment was raised on April 23, 1775 under Colonel Mansfield outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton... : Colonel Rufus Putnam 6th Massachusetts Regiment 6th Massachusetts Regiment The 6th Massachusetts Regiment also known as the 4th Continental Regiment was raised on April 23, 1775 under Colonel John Nixon outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton and the Battle of... : Colonel Thomas Nixon 7th Massachusetts Regiment 7th Massachusetts Regiment The 7th Massachusetts Regiment, constituted on 16 September 1776 and originally known as Alden's Regiment from its first colonel, Ichabod Alden was an infantry regiment of the Continental Army... : Colonel Ichabod Alden 2nd New Hampshire County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia
	Paterson's Brigade Brigadier General John Paterson	10th Massachusetts Regiment 10th Massachusetts Regiment The 10th Massachusetts Regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 in the Continental Army under Colonel Marshall at Boston, Massachusetts as eight companies of volunteers from Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, Bristol, Hampshire, Plymouth, and Suffolk counties of the colony of Massachusetts and... : Colonel Thomas Marshall 11th Massachusetts Regiment 11th Massachusetts Regiment The 11th Massachusetts Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776 under Colonel Ebenezer Francis at Boston, Massachusetts. The 11th Mass. would see action at the Battle of Hubbardton, Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Monmouth... : Colonel Benjamin Tupper 12th Massachusetts Regiment 12th Massachusetts Regiment The 12th Massachusetts Regiment, also known as 18th Continental Regiment, was raised on April 23, 1775 under Colonel Phinney outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Monmouth... : Colonel Samuel Brewer 14th Massachusetts Regiment 14th Massachusetts Regiment The 14th Massachusetts Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776 under Colonel Gamaliel Bradford at Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Monmouth. The regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1781 at West Point, New York.-External links:*... : Colonel Gamaliel Bradford South Berkshire Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Colonel John Ashley 3rd York County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Storer
	Warner's Brigade Brigadier General Jonathan Warner	Central Berkshire Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Colonel John Brown 5th Middlesex Regiment of Massachusetts Militiia: Colonel Samuel Bullard 3rd Suffolk County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Colonel Benjamin Gill 1st New Hampshire Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Colonel Benjamin Woodbridge 4th Essex County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia: Colonel Samuel Johnson
Unattached units	Morgan's Corps of Rifleman and Light Infantry: Colonel Daniel Morgan Daniel Morgan Daniel Morgan was an American pioneer, soldier, and United States Representative from Virginia. One of the most gifted battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion.-Early years:Most authorities believe that...

Sources

Luzader, John. F. Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution. Savas Beatie, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932714-44-9

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