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by wdrenth » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:52 pm
The three regiments of Huguenot foot were raised in England in the spring of 1689. Several of the officers accompanied the prince of Orange in November 1688, and were part of the Dutch invasion army as gentlemen volunteers or reformadoes, attached to other Dutch regiments. Other officers were already in England, having fled previously from France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The regiments were raised as part of the English Establishment, along English lines with thirteen companies, etc, and the colonels were granted seniority in the English Establishment accordingly. So in theory they would have had their normal quota of pikes, I guess, but I am not an expert on weapons. Maybe the pikes had rotten away during the winter 1689-1690, used as firewood? Or the pikemen were left on the north bank of the Boyne, as wading the river with a how-many-foot long pike was considered impossible?
Not the answer, but I hope it gives a few possibilities.
regards,
Wienand