1759 - Reich and Austrian invasion of Saxony – Prussian Finck’s Corps OOB September
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Description
On September 6, 1759, Lieutenant-General von Finck arrived at Vetschau in Brandenburg to assume command of Rebentisch’s and Schenckendorff’s detachments. Hundt’s and Dingelstedt’s hussar detachments were also subordinated to Finck.
Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General von Finck
Summary: 10 bns, 20 sqns, 800 hussars, 10 field artillery pieces
Infantry (10 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion Beyer (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Nesse (1 bn) temporarily converged with Grenadier Battalion G-I/G-XI Lossau
- Zastrow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Lehwaldt Infantry (1 bn)
- Grabow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion von Ripp (1 bn) temporarily converged Grenadier Battalion Lubath and Grenadier Battalion Jung-Billerbeck
- Grenadier Battalion Kreckwitz (1 bn) temporarily converged Grenadier Battalion Bornstedt and Grenadier Battalion Heyden
- Grenadier Battalion Swolinsky (1 bn) temporarily converged Grenadier Battalion Östenreich and Grenadier Battalion Schwartz
- Markgraf Carl Infantry (1 bn)
- Tresckow Infantry (1 bn) already at Lübben with the field bakery
Cavalry (20 sqns and 800 hussars)
- Krockow Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Jung-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Markgraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Horn Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Picked hussars under (800 men) under Lieutenant-Colonel von Dingelstedt and Major von Hundt
- Kleist Hussars (??? men)
- Puttkamer Hussars (??? men)
- Ruesch Hussars (??? men)
- Malachowski Hussars (??? men)
- Zieten Hussars (??? men)
Field Artillery
- 10 x 12-pdr guns
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, p. 123
