1758 - Russian invasion of Brandenburg – Bevern’s Prussian Army OOB mid-May
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Description
Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern, Governor of Pomerania
By mid-May 1758, the Prussian forces of Lieutenant-General Bevern in Pomerania totalled some 8,500 men.
Field troops (usually in Stettin)
- Grenadier Battalion Köller (1 bn)
- Garrison Regiment I von Puttkamer (2 bns) by mid-June, 300 men garrisoned Fort Peenemünde and an entire bn, under Colonel von Wuthenow, garrisoned Swinemünde
- Converged Frei-Grenadier-Corps (2 coys, each of 150 men with 2 guns) under the command of Wussow and Hüllesem
- Provincial Hussars von Hohendorff (1 sqn)
- Provincial Jäger-Corps von der Goltz (80 men) partly mounted
- II./Rautter Infantry (2 bns) sent back to Stettin from Dohna’s Army at the beginning of August and remaining there until mid-September
Garrisons
In Stettin
- Land Regiment 4 Stockhausen (9 coys for a total of 1,400 men)
- Mixed Recruit Battalion von Tettau (1 bn)
- Enrolled Recruit Battalion von Stosch (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 1 von Natzmer (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 2 von Schlichting (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 3 Alt-Wedell (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 4 von Watzmer (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 5 von Sydow (1 bn)
- Land Militia Battalion Nr. 6 von Klitzing (1 bn)
- Burgsdorff Invalids (1 coy of 110 men)
In Alt-Damm
In Kolberg
Artillery (1 coy of approx. 300 men) in Stettin, Alt-Damm, Swinemünde, Kolberg and later in Cüstrin
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 8 Zorndorf und Hochkirch, Berlin, 1910, Anlage 3 and p. 58
