1759 - Austrian campaign in Upper Silesia and Lusatia – Prussian Army OOB mid-August

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Description

Prince Heinrich’s Army

Prince Heinrich was still at Schmottseiffen with his army.

Commander-in-Chief: General of Infantry Prince Heinrich

Summary: 40 bns and 72 sqns for a total of approx. 40,000 men

Infantry (40 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 3/6 Hacke (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 15/18 Anhalt (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 37/40 Kleist (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 8/46 Alt-Billerbeck (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 33/42 Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 12/39 Pieverlingk (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 9/10 Bähr (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 41/44 Benckendorff (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 1/23 Rathenow (1 bn)
• Grenadier Garde (1 bn)
• Wing Grenadiers of the I./Leibgarde (1 coy)
• Itzenplitz Infantry (2 bns)
• Prinz von Preußen Infantry (2 bns)
• Lattorff Infantry (2 bns)
• II. and III. Garde (2 bns)
• Wedell Infantry (2 bns)
• Forcade Infantry (2 bns)
• Alt-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
• Alt-Braunschweig Infantry (2 bns)
• Jung Braunschweig Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Rebentisch Infantry (2 bns)
• Jung-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
• Prinz Ferdinand Infantry (2 bns)
• Lindstedt Infantry (2 bns)
• Münchow Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Freibataillon Salenmon (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Quintus Icilius (1 bn)
• Feldjäger zu Fuß (2 coys)

Cavalry (72 sqns)

• Garde du Corps (3 sqns)
• Gens d'Armes (5 sqns)
• Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
• Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• |Vasold Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Schmettau Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Bredow Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Württemberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Gersdorff Hussars (10 sqns)
• Zieten Hussars (7 sqns)
• Möhring Hussars (7 sqns)

Fouqué’s Corps

Fouqué’s Corps was in the region of Landeshut.

Commander-in-Chief: General of Infantry de la Motte-Fouqué

Summary: 23 bns and 20 sqns for a total of approx. 18,000 men.

Infantry (21 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 45/G-XIII/G-IX Unruh (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion G-V/G-X Rath (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 47/G-VII Buddenbrock (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion G-NG/G-III/G-IV Carlowitz (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 24/34 Naumeister (1 bn)
• Manteuffel Infantry (2 bns)
• Markgraf von Brandenburg-Schwedt Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Kalckstein Infantry (2 bns)
• Fouqué Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Queiss Infantry (2 bns)
• Ramin Infantry (2 bns)
• IV./Garrison Regiment No. VI Lattorf (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Le Noble (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Lüderitz (1 bn)
• Freibataillon de Angelelli (1 bn)

Cavalry (20 sqns)

• Bayreuth Dragoons (10 sqns)
• Werner Hussars (10 sqns)

In Neisse: Mosel Infantry (2 bns)

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 11 Minden und Maxen, Berlin, 1912, Anlage 6