1756 - Prussian invasion of Saxony – Prussian OOB August 26 Lehwaldt
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Description
Army left in East Prussia under Field-Marshal von Lehwaldt in August 1756 to observe the Russian army.
Summary: 10 infantry bns, 4 garrison bns, 1 grenadier bn, 10 grenadier coys, 36 battalion guns, 30 dragoon sqns, 20 hussar sqns, 20 field pieces
For a total of 12,081 foot and 7014 horse (excluding supernumeraries amounting to 566 foot and 720 horse)
Staff
- Commander-in-Chief: Field-Marshal von Lehwaldt
- Adjutants: Captain von Studnitz, Captain von Buddenbrock
- Lieutenant-Quartermaster: Major Baron von der Goltz
- Brigadier-Major: P. L. von Kalckstein
- Engineer: Captain Honauer and a driver
- Field-Postmaster: unknown
- Field Hospital: Director von Bone
- Supply: Captain von Froreich
Main Body
- Infantry (10 infantry bns, 4 garrison bns, 1 grenadier bn, 10 grenadier coys)
- Kanitz Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kalnein Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Below Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Lehwaldt Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Graf zu Dohna Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Garrison Regiment II. von Sydow (2 bns)
- Garrison Regiment XI. von Manteuffel (2 bns)
- IV. "Standing" Grenadier Battalion (Lossau) (1 bn)
- 36 battalion guns
- Cavalry (30 dragoon sqns, 20 hussar sqns)
- Plettenberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Langermann Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
- Ruesch Hussars (10 sqns) including the Bosniaken
- Field Artillery (20 field pieces)
- 10 x 12-pdr guns
- 6 x 24-pdr guns
- 4 x 10-pdr howitzers
There was also a Reserve Corps in Pomerania under the command of the Lieutenant-General Hereditary Prince of Hessen-Darmstadt
Summary: 8 infantry bns, 1 grenadier bn, 8 grenadier coys, 22 battalion guns, 10 hussar sqns
For a total of 7,168 foot and 1,156 horse (excluding supernumeraries amounting to 348 foot
Staff
- Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Hereditary Prince of Hessen-Darmstadt
- Adjutant: P. L. von Syburg
Main Body
- Infantry (8 infantry bns, 1 grenadier bn, 8 grenadier coys, 22 battalions guns)
- Amstell Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Erbprinz von Hessen-Darmstadt Infantry (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Jung Braunschweig Fusiliers (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Duke von Württemberg Fusiliers (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- I. "Standing" Grenadier Battalion (Kahlden) (1 bn)
- 22 battalion guns
- Cavalry (10 hussar sqns)
- Seydlitz Hussars (10 sqns)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II, Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 1 Pirna und Lobositz, Berlin, 1901, pp. 119, 192-194, Attachment 6
