1759 - Reich and Austrian invasion of Saxony – Prussian Army OOB mid-November

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Description

By November 13, 1759, several Prussian corps and detachments were deployed in Saxony.

In camp north of Lommatzsch

Summary: 24½ bns, 38 sqns

Infantry (22 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 8/46 Alt-Billerbeck (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 3/6 Hacke (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 15/18 Anhalt (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 33/42 Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 12/39 Pieverlingk (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 11/14 Beyer (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 2/G-II Nesse (1 bn) temporarily converged with Grenadier Battalion G-I/G-XI Lossau
• Itzenplitz Infantry (2 bns)
• Prinz von Preußen Infantry (2 bns)
• Lattorff Infantry (2 bns)
• II. and III. Garde (2 bns)
• Grenadier Garde (1 bn)
• Wedell Infantry (2 bns) ???or Vacant Wedell???
• Prinz Ferdinand Infantry (2 bns)
• Markgraf Carl Infantry (1 bn)
• I./Gabelentz Fusiliers (1 bn)

Cavalry (23 sqns)

• Garde du Corps (3 sqns)
• Gens d'Armes (5 sqns)
• Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
• Schmettau Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns)

Artillery (125 pieces)

• 2 x 6-pdr guns
• 32 x 12-pdr Brummer guns
• 40 x Austrian-style 12-pdr guns
• 11 x light 12-pdr guns
• 23 x 7-pdr howitzers
• 12 x 10-pdr howitzers
• 4 x 18-pdr howitzers
• 4 x 25-pdr mortars

Vanguard (2½ bns, 15 sqns) under Lieutenant-General von Zieten and Major-General von Krockow in or around Lommatzsch

• I./Salmuth Fusiliers (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Quintus Icilius (1 bn)
• Feldjäger zu Fuß (2 coys)
• Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Zieten Hussars (10 sqns) with the exception of a detachment under Reitzenstein

Lieutenant-General von Hülsen’s Corps

This corps was quartered near the camp of Lommatzsch.

Summary: 8 bns, 5 sqns

Infantry (8 bns)

• Goltz Infantry (1 bn)
• Lestwitz Infantry (1 bn)
• Anhalt-Bernburg Infantry (2 bns)
• Graf zu Dohna Infantry (1 bn)
• Prinz Moritz Infantry (2 bns)
• Bevern Infantry (1 bn)

Cavalry (5 sqns)

• Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns)

Artillery

• 3 x 6-pdr guns
• 12 x 12-pdr Brummer guns
• 8 x Austrian-style 12-pdr guns
• 13 x light 12-pdr guns
• 1 x light 24-pdr gun
• 9 x 7-pdr howitzers
• 5 x 10-pdr howitzers
• 2 x 18-pdr howitzers

Lieutenant-General von Wedell’s Corps

This corps was posted near Hirschstein.

Summary: 11 bns, 28 sqns

Infantry (7 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 1/23 Rathenow (1 bn)
• Forcade Infantry (2 bns)
• Alt-Braunschweig Infantry (2 bns)
• Lindstedt Infantry (2 bns)

Cavalry (10 sqns)

• Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Krockow Dragoons (5 sqns)

Vanguard (4 bns, 18sqns) under Major-General von Aschersleben near Naundorf

• Grenadier Battalion 7/30 Lubath (1 bn) temporarily converged with Grenadier Battalion 5/20 Jung-Billerbeck
• Grenadier Battalion 38/43 Burgsdorff (1 bn)
• Frei-Infanterie von Wunsch (2 bns)
• Plettenberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Möhring Hussars (7 sqns)
• Dingelstedt Hussar Commando (6 sqns)
  • Malachowski Hussars (300 men)
  • Puttkamer Hussars (??? men)
• Artillery
  • 2 x 6-pdr guns
  • 1 x 12-pdr gun

Major-General von Diericke’s Corps

This corps was posted near Kmehlen.

Summary: 5 bns, 5 sqns and 450 picked horse

Infantry (4 bns)

• Kanitz Infantry (1 bn)
• Wied Fusiliers (1 bn)
• Kleist Infantry (2 bns) unidentified unit

Cavalry (5 sqns)

• Prinz Heinrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Schorlemmer Dragoons (200 men)
• Zieten Hussars (150 men) under Major von Reitzenstein
• Kleist Hussars (100 men)

Detachment guarding the pontoon-bridge at Merschwitz (1 bn, 450 picked horse)

• Hauss Fusiliers (1 bn)
• picked horse (450 men)

Major-General von Schenckendorff’s Detachment

This detachment was posted near Churschütz.

Summary: 2 bns, 8 sqns

Infantry (2 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 9/10 Bähr (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 29/31 Östenreich (1 bn) temporarily converged with Grenadier Battalion 35/36 Schwartz, under Swolinsky

Cavalry (8 sqns)

• Markgraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Möhring Hussars (3 sqns)
• Hesse-Kassel Fusiliers (2 bns)

Lieutenant-General von Finck’s Corps

This corps was posted in and around Nossen.

Summary: 21 bns, 35 sqns

Infantry (19 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 13/26 Bornstedt (1 bn) (1 bn) temporarily converged with Grenadier Battalion 19/25 Heyden, under Hombold
• Grenadier Battalion 4/16 Willemey (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 41/44 Benckendorff (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 37/40 Kleist (1 bn)
• Münchow Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Rebentisch Infantry (2 bns)
• Hesse-Kassel Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Zastrow Fusiliers (1 bn) near Rosswein
• Grabow Fusiliers (1 bn) near Rosswein
• Lehwaldt Infantry (1 bn) near Rosswein
• Hülsen Infantry (1 bn)
• Finck Infantry (1 bn)
• Knobloch Infantry (1 bn)
• Schenckendorff Infantry (1 bn)
• II./Salmuth Fusiliers (1 bn) near Rosswein
• Freibataillon Salenmon (1 bn)

Cavalry

• Bredow Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• |Vasold Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Horn Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Württemberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Jung-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Gersdorff Hussars (10 sqns)

Guarding the bakery at Döbeln (2 bns)

• Hoffmann Fusiliers (2 bns)

Colonel von Kleist’s Detachment

This detachment reached Freiberg on November 13.

Summary: 1 bn, 21 sqns

Infantry (1 bn)

• Freibataillon Collignon (1 bn)

Cavalry (21 sqns)

• Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
• Kleist Hussars (10 sqns)
• Freihusaren von Kleist (1 sqn)

Tresckow’s Detachment

This detachment guarded the bakery at Riesa.

Summary: 1 bn

Infantry (1 bn)

• Tresckow Infantry (1 bn)

Frederick’s Detachment

Infantry

• II./Gabelentz Fusiliers (1 bn)

Cavalry

• Major von Seelhorst’s Detachment
  • Bayreuth Dragoons (2 sqns)
  • Werner Hussars (1 sqn)

Frederick’s Escort

• Zieten Hussars (60 men) under Captain von Prittwitz
• Normann Dragoons and Jung-Platen Dragoons (50 men)
• Wing Grenadiers of the I./Leibgarde (1 coy)

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 9