# Battle of Bemis Heights 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 |
| 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 |
| Left wing   Major General Horatio Gates | 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 |
| Left wing   Major General Horatio Gates | 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 |
| Right Wing   Major General Benjamin Lincoln | 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 |
| Right Wing   Major General Benjamin Lincoln | 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 |
| Right Wing   Major General Benjamin Lincoln | 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

* Luzader, John. F. Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution. Savas Beatie, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932714-44-9
* Weddle, Kevin. The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 544 p. — ISBN 978-0195331400.
* Craig, Joe. “The Battles of Saratoga.” Cobblestone, vol. 20, no. 8, Nov. 1999, p. 20. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.rocky.iona.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=2416003&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
* Loiselle, Brett. “The Battles of Saratoga.” Battles of Saratoga, Aug. 2017, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.rocky.iona.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=17916678&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
* Seymour, William. “Turning Point at Saratoga.” Military History, vol. 16, no. 5, Dec. 1999, p. 46. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.rocky.iona.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=2405767&site=ehost-live&scope=site.