1757 - Swedish campaign in Pomerania – Prussian Lehwaldt OoB October
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Description
At the end of October 1757, Field-Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt was marching from East Prussia towards Pomerania at the head of 28,400 men to relieve Major-General Heinrich von Manteufel.
Summary: 24 bns, 50 sqns, 2 artillery coy.
Lehwaldt’s Army consisted of:
Infantry (24 bns for a total of 19,850 men)
- Grenadiers (4 bns for a total of 3,000 men)
- Grenadier Battalion Kleist (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Manstein (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Petersdorff (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Lossau (1 bn)
- Line Infantry (10 bns for a total of 9,450 men)
- Garrison Regiments (10 bns for a total of 7,400 men)
- Garrison Regiment XI Manteuffel (4 bns)
- Garrison Regiment II Sydow (4 bns)
- Garrison Regiment I Puttkamer (2 bns for a total of 1,550 men)
Cavalry (50 sqns for a total of 8,250 men)
- Dragoons (30 sqns for a total of 5,750 men)
- Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
- Plettenberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Alt-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Hussars (20 sqns for a total of 2,500 men)
- Ruesch "Black" Hussars (10 sqns)
- Malachowsky "Yellow" Hussars (10 sqns)
Artillery (300 men)
- Field Artillery (1 coy)
- Garrison Artillery (1 coy) from Pillau
- 9 heavy guns
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 6 Leuthen, Berlin, 1904, Anhang 29
