1759 - Reich and Austrian invasion of Saxony – Allied reinforcements December
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Description
On November 25, 1759, Frederick had written to Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, asking for a reinforcement of 4,000 men. On November 28 in the morning, the corps of the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick set out from Marburg, on its way to Saxony. On December 18, the Hereditary Prince, now reinforced with Gilsa's detachment, arrived at Erfurt.
On December 25, the reinforcements requested from the Allies arrived near Chemnitz.
Order of Battle
Summary: 13 bns and 20 sqns
Infantry (13 bns)
- Brunswick Converged Grenadiers (2 bns)
- Brunswick Leib-Regiment (2 bns)
- Brunswick Behr (2 bns)
- Brunswick Imhoff (2 bns)
- Hessian Grenadier-Regiment (1 bn)
- Hessian Mansbach (1 bn)
- Hessian Bischhausen (1 bn)
- Hanoverian La Chevallerie (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Alt Zastrow (1 bn)
Cavalry (20 sqns)
- Hanoverian Hammerstein Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Bremer Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Veltheim Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Bock Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Hessian Prinz Wilhelm Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hessian Prinz Friedrich Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Schaumburg-Lippe Bückeburg Carabiniers (100 men)
- Prussian Ruesch “Black Hussars” (3 sqns)
Artillery (16 heavy artillery pieces)
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, Anhang 12
