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)
  • Kanitz (2 bns)
  • Rautter (2 bns)
  • Below (2 bns)
  • Lehwaldt (2 bns)
  • Dohna (2 bns)
• 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