British and Jacobite Armies

Battle of Prestonpans
20 September 1745

British: Cope
Gardiner's (13th) Dragoon Regiment
Hamilton's (14th) Dragoon Regiment (3 sqns)(under Wright)
Murray's (57th) Regiment of Foot (under Clayton), plus
Composite Battalion (under Severn) formed from:
Lascelles' (58th) Regiment of Foot (8 cos)
Guise's (6th) Regiment of Foot (2 cos)
Picquet's Detachment
Lee's (55th) Regiment of Foot (5 cos) (under Halkett)
Cochran Infantry detachment (100 men from the 57th RoF)
43rd (Black Watch) Highlanders (1 co)(under Cpt. Murray)
Loudon's (64th) Highlanders (3 1/2 co)(under Cpt. Alexander,
Mackay, Stuart & Monro)

Total

2,191 rank & file infantry (including total 183 Highlanders)

567 dragoon troopers

Jacobites: Lord George Murray

Claranald Regiment of Foot (~200 men)
Glengarry Regiment of Foot (~400 men)
Kemppoch Regiment of Foot (~250 men)
Nairne Regiment of Foot (~300 men)
Maclachlan Regiment of Foot (~300 men)
Perth Regiment of Foot (~200 men)
Ardshiel Regiment of Foot (~200 men)
Lochiel Regiment of Foot (~500 men)
Strathallan's Cavalry Detachment (36 men)

Reid, S., 1745, A Military History of the Last Jacobite Rising, New York, Sarpedon,
1996.
Copyright GFN 1997