Second Saratoga order of battle

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

Wing	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Advanced corps	Brigadier-General Simon Fraser (killed)	24th Regiment: Major William Agnew Grenadier Battalion: Major John Dyke Acland, 20th Regiment Light Infantry Battalion: Major Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, 53rd Regiment Company of Select Marksmen: Captain Alexander Fraser, 34th Regiment
Right wing Major-General William Phillips	1st Brigade Brigadier-General James Inglis Hamilton	20th Regiment: Lieutenant-Colonel John Lind 21st Regiment: Major George Forster 62nd Regiment: Lieutenant-Colonel John Anstruther
Right wing Major-General William Phillips	2nd Brigade Brigadier-General Henry Watson Powell	9th Regiment: Lieutenant-Colonel John Hill 47th Regiment: Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Sutherland 53rd Regiment: Captain William Hughes
Left wing Major-General Friedrich Adolph von Riedesel	1st Brigade General Johann Specht	von Rhetz (Braunschweiger Regiment): Major Balthasar von Lucke von Specht (Braunschweiger Regiment): Major Carl von Ehrenkrook von Riedesel (Braunschweiger Regiment): Lieutenant-Colonel Ernst von Spaethe
Left wing Major-General Friedrich Adolph von Riedesel	2nd Brigade Brigadier-General Wilhelm von Gall	Prinz Friedrich (Braunschweiger Regiment): Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Praetorius Erbprinz (Hesse-Hanau Regiment): Lieutenant-Colonel von Lentz
Reserve	Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich von Breymann	Grenadier Battalion: Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich von Breymann Light Infantry Battalion: Major Ferdinand Albrecht von Bärner Braunschweiger Jagers Company Braunschweiger Dragoon Regiment von Ludwig: Lieutenant-Colonel Friedrich Baum
Artillery	Major Griffith Williams	Royal Irish Artillery Detachment 33rd Regiment detachment: Lieutenant George Anson Nutt Hesse-Hanau Artillery company: Captain Georg Pausch

American army

Major General Horatio Gates

Staff

Adjutant General: Lt Colonel James Wilkinson
Quartermaster: Lt Colonel Morgan Lewis
Engineers: Col Thaddeus Kosciusko

Wing	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Left wing Major General Horatio Gates	Learned's Brigade Brigadier General Ebenezer Learned	2nd Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel John Bailey 8th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Michael Jackson 9th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel James Wesson Livingston's Canadian Regiment: Colonel James Livingston Drake's New Hampshire Militia: Colonel Abraham Drake Evans' New Hampshire Militia: Colonel Stephan Evans
	Poor's Brigade Brigadier General Enoch Poor	1st New Hampshire Regiment: Colonel Joseph Cilley 2nd New Hampshire Regiment: Colonel Winborn Adams 3rd New Hampshire Regiment: Colonel Alexander Scammell 2nd New York Regiment: Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt 4th New York Regiment: Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston Cook's Connecticut Militia: Colonel Thaddeus Cook Latimer's Connecticut Militia: Colonel Jonathan Latimer
	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 Livingston 11th Regiment: Colonel Anthony Van Bergen 12th Regiment: Colonel Jacobus Van Schoonhoven 13th Regiment: Colonel John McCrea Colonel John Knickerbacker's Regiment Colonel Lewis Van Woert's Regiment
Right Wing Major General Benjamin Lincoln	Glover's Brigade Brigadier General John Glover	1st Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Joseph Vose 4th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel William Shepard 13th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Edward Wigglesworth 15th Massachusetts Regiment: 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: Colonel John Greaton 5th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Rufus Putnam 6th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Thomas Nixon 7th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Ichabod Alden 2nd Hampshire County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia
	Paterson's Brigade Brigadier General John Paterson	10th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Thomas Marshall 11th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Benjamin Tupper 12th Massachusetts Regiment: Colonel Samuel Brewer 14th Massachusetts Regiment: 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 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

Sources

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