Talk:Battle of Minden

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Corrected the inaccuracy concerning the court-martial of Sackville after the battle. He requested said trail voluntarily, it was not imposed upon him. Rockfall 17:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Discrepancy re. numbers of French casualties

In the text it says that "the French lost between 10,000 and 11,000 men," in the side box it says "7,086 killed, wounded or missing." roger.duprat.copenhagen

Fixed. Rebel Redcoat (talk) 23:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Battle Honours

"Two Batteries from the Royal Regiment of Artillery carry the Minden battle honour." This sentence appears in the 'Minden in regimental tradition' section.

It could do with a spot of re-wording, because as far as I know, the Royal Artillery does not have any battle honours - apart from their guns. The nearest they have, is the word 'Ubique' (Everywhere), like the Royal Engineers. Unless things have changed drastically since I was 'in'.

RASAM (talk) 21:45, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

This is not entirely true. Yes the Royal Regiment of Artillery is no longer awarded battle honours but those Battery's that have been awarded them still hold them. The guns & weapon systems are not given the battle honour, they display them. The guns & weapon systems are the Regimental Colour's and are paraded as such. Another example of a battle honour for a Royal Artillery Battery is 9 (Plassey) Battery Royal Artillery of 12th Regiment Royal Artillery which was awarded the battle honour Plassey after taking part in the Battle of Plassey 23 June 1757. The Battery's take their battle honours very seriously and being an ex member of 36 (Arcot) Bty, 58 (Eyres) Bty, T Bty (Shah Sujah's Troop), 94 (New Zealand) Bty and 12 (Minden) Bty have first hand experience of this. Kind regards RoyCrockford (talk) 07:37, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

British participants

The regiments listed are only those of the infantry. Amongst the others regiments were: Royal Horse Guards: now the Blues and Royals 1st Dragoon Guards: now the Queen’s Dragoon Guards 3rd Dragoon Guards: later the 3rd Carabineers and now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards The Royal Scots Greys: now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 10th Dragoons: later the 10th Light Dragoons, then the 10th Hussars, then the Royal Hussars and now the King’s Royal Hussars. I am not sure if this list is correct or complete - I suspect not, so ask someone more knowledgeable than I to please take a look. Shipsview (talk) 10:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

1st line, 14 squadrons under Mostyn, excl Hanoverian:

1st Dragoon guards (general Bland's regiment)

6th Iniskilling Dragoons

Blues (old 1st regiment of Horse)

Life Guards

Second line, 10 squadrons, Granville Elliot excl Hanoverian regiments.

Howard's (3rd Dragoon Guards)

Mordaunt's (10th Dragoons)

Scot Greys (2 squadrons)

Rebel Redcoat (talk) 13:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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Royal Welsh Fusiliers

"The Royal Welch Fusiliers do not wear roses on Minden Day as the Minden Rose was incorporated into the roundel of their cap badge and so is worn every day of the year"

This is explanation is erronious. The RWF badge bore as an emblem the Prince of Wales' feathers. The error appears to arise from a confusion with the 7th Royal Fusiliers who did bear a rose on their badge.

There is no reference to roses in accounts of Minden in regimental histories of 1850 and 1889, or to celebrations on the anniversary of the battle. JF42 (talk) JF42 (talk) 09:05, 27 July 2024 (UTC)