1757 - French invasion of Hanover – Prussian OOB October 1

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Introduction

Order of battle of Ferdinand's Prussian Corps at the camp of Gross-Wanzleben, including the garrison of Magdeburg by October 1 1757.

In the camp of Gross-Wanzleben

Infantry (128 officers and 5,581 men)

• Alt-Braunschweig Infantry (2 bns)
• Hülsen Infantry (2 bns)
• Anhalt-Dessau Infantry (3 bns)
• Salmuth Fusiliers (2 bns)
• I./Jungkenn Müntzer Fusiliers (1 bn)

Cavalry (43 officers and 1,303 men)

• Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns)
• Driesen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Seydlitz Hussars (1 sqn)

In garrison in Magdeburg

Regular infantry (90 officers and 2,885 men)

• Hessen-Kassel Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Saldern Fusiliers (2 bns) a former Saxon unit
• II./Jungkenn Müntzer Fusiliers (1 bn)

Magdeburgischen Land-Regiment Alt-Wegnern (10 officers and 772 men in 7 coys)

Landmiliz-Regiment Jung-Wegnern (38 officers and 2,300 men in 3 bns)

N.B.: Ferdinand of Brunswick sent 2 bns of the Kurmark Land Militia Regiment von Borck from Magdeburg to Altmark at the end of September. The third bn was not yet completed.

N.B.: The remnants of the Garrison Regiment IX de La Motte, who had defended Geldern, finally reached Magdeburg on October 4. On the way, most soldiers had deserted.

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 5 Hastenbeck und Roßbach, Berlin, 1903, Anhang 57