Danish Auxiliary Corps in Anglo-Dutch service 1701–1714

Downsizing the army was not possible; the King wanting to retain the option of going to war with Sweden at some future date, in order to regain the provinces lost in the treaty of Roskilde 1658.

The King therefore decided to make more than half of the Danish army's 35,000 soldiers, two-thirds of which were enlisted in Germany, available to the Allied powers during the War of the Spanish Succession.

[1][2] Twelve thousand soldiers were in 1701 made available to the Allied powers through a Danish defensive alliance with the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of England.

At the end of each year's campaign season the Danish corps would receive the same recruitment money as the Dutch army, in order to replace its manpower losses.

In 1702 it participated in the capture of the Liege citadel after the citizens had open the town gates for Marlborough's army, and in the drawn battle of Beverloo.

The cavalry marched strait to Nördlingen, the infantry took a longer route and was put under Eugene of Savoy's army in Heidelberg.

In the spring of 1706, duke Carl again refused to march until the Dutch Republic had fulfilled its obligations, and it was not until the end of May that the corps joined Marlborough's army.

Especially its cavalry played a large role in the victory at the battle of Ramillies, attacking the French and Bavarian flank, losing 600 men and 800 horses.

Later participating in the sieges and captures of Antwerp, Ostend, Menen, Ath, Dendermonde and Oudenaarde, it suffered a total of 2,200 soldiers and 1,300 horses lost in 1706.

In 1709 the Danish corps remained in its winter quarters until June, awaiting the one million guilders owed by the Dutch Republic.

In 1712 peace negotiations began between France and the United Kingdom, and the British government no longer had any use of the Danish regiments in its service.