1759 - Reich and Austrian invasion of Saxony – Prussian Army OOB mid-April
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Description
In mid-April 1759, Prince Heinrich and his army were posted in Saxony. His left flank was protected by a corps of 18 bns and 20 sqns posted in Upper-Silesia under the command of General of Infantry de la Motte-Fouqué. The order of battle of the Army of Prince Heinrich is detailed in this article. For Fouqué’s Corps, see our article 1759 - Austrian campaign in Upper Silesia and Lusatia – Prussian Army OOB mid-April.
N.B.: at the opening of the campaign of 1759, each battalion counted 700 men and each squadron, 140 men.
Army of Saxony
Commander-in-Chief: Prince Heinrich
Summary: 41 bns, 60 sqns, 63 heavy artillery pieces for a total of approx. 37,100 men.
- Infantry (41 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 5/20 Jung-Billerbeck (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 13/26 Bornstedt (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 7/30 Lubath (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 29/31 Östenreich (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 35/36 Schwartz (1 bn)
- Anhalt-Bernburg Infantry (3 bns)
- Finck Infantry (2 bns)
- Goltz Infantry (2 bns)
- Hauss Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Hülsen Infantry (2 bns)
- Knobloch Infantry (2 bns)
- Lestwitz Infantry (2 bns)
- Puttkamer Infantry (2 bns)
- Braun Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Bredow Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Bülow Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Hesse-Kassel Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Grabow Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Salmuth Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Wied Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Zastrow Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Freibataillon Collignon (1 bn)
- Freibataillon Monjou (1 bn)
- Freibataillon Wunsch (1 bn)
- Cavalry (60 sqns)
- Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns)
- Markgraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Prinz Heinrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Horn Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Schlabrendorff Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Spaen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Meinicke Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Belling Hussars (5 sqns)
- Puttkamer Hussars (10 sqns)
- Szekely Hussars (10 sqns) would be renamed Kleist Hussars on May 16, 1759
- Artillery
- Field Artillery Regiment (approx. 1,000 men including those serving the battalion pieces)
- Heavy artillery(63 pieces)
- 20 x heavy 12-pdr guns
- 28 x “Austrian style” 12 pdr-guns
- 6 x light 12-pdr guns
- 5 x 7-pdr howitzers
- 4 x 10-pdr howitzers
- Battalion artillery (82 pieces)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 9 Bergen, Berlin, 1911, p. 126, Anlage 2
