1756 - Prussian operations in Eastern Bohemia – Prussian OOB Schwerin
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Description
Army of Silesia under Field-Marshal Count Schwerin in August 1756
Summary: 20 infantry bns, 6 grenadier bns, 52 battalion guns, 20 cuirassier sqns, 10 dragoon sqns, 20 hussar sqns, 20 field pieces, 20 pontoons)
For a total of 17,704 foot and 6,801 horse (excluding the supernumeraries amounting to 844 foot and 720 horse)
Staff:
- Commander-in-Chief: Field-Marshal Count Schwerin
- Adjutants: P. L. von Platen, Lieutenant-General Count Schwerin, Lieutenant von der Groeben
- Lieutenant-Quartermaster: Lieutenant-Colonel von Wreede
- Brigadiers-Majors: Captain von Lockstedt, lieutenant-Colonel von Rothenburg
- Engineers: Major Embers, Captain Griese
- Field-Postmaster: Böttger
- Artillery Train: Captain von Often
- Field Hospital Director: Major von Henning
- General-Surgeon: Schmucker
- Supply: Colonel von der Often
Right wing under Lieutenant-general Baron de la Motte-Fouqué
- Infantry (10 infantry bns, 4 grenadier bns and 28 battalion guns for a total of 9,454 foot)
- Kalsow Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Schultze Infantry (2 bns)
- Kurssell Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Kreytzen Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Lestwitz Infantry (2 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 29/31 Östenreich (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 37/40 Manteuffel (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 38/43 Burgsdorff (1 bn)
- V. "Standing" Grenadier Battalion (Rath) (1 bn)
- Cavalry (5 cuirassier sqns, 10 dragoon sqns, 10 hussar sqns for a total of 3,323 horse)
- Buddenbrock Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Stechow Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Blanckensee Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Wartenberg Hussars (10 sqns with detachments at Cosel, Glatz, Neisse and Schweidnitz)
Left wing under Lieutenant-General von Hautcharmoy assisted by von Schmerzing
- Infantry (10 infantry bns, 2 grenadier bns and 24 battalion guns for a total of 8,250 foot)
- Hautcharmoy Infantry (2 bns)
- Tresckow Infantry (2 bns)
- Fouqué Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Markgraf von Brandenburg Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Pioniere (2 bns)
- VI. "Standing" Grenadier Battalion (Plötz) (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 33/42 Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
- Cavalry (15 cuirassier sqns, 10 hussar sqns for a total of 3,478 horse)
- Geßler Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Prinz von Schönaich-Carolath Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Baron von Kyau Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Wechmar Hussars (10 sqns)
Field Artillery
- 10 x 12-pdr guns
- 4 x 24-pdr guns
- 6 x 10-pdr howitzers
N.B.: Lloyds also mentions Grenadier Battalion 28/32 Kreytzen. Indeed this battalion was part of Schwerin's Army till mid-September when Schwerin sent it to reinforce the garrison of Cosel.
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
Lloyd, Henry: Mémoires militaires et politiques du Henri Lloyd: Servant d'introduction à l'Histoire de la guerre en Allemagne en 1756, entre le Roi de Prusse et l'Impératrice Reine avec ses Alliés, Paris: Magimel, 1801
