1759 - Russian campaign in Brandenburg – Prussian Army Dohna OOB end May

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Description

At the end of May 1759, the Prussian Army of Pomerania (20 bns and 28 sqns for a total of approx. 17,600 men with 46 heavy artillery pieces and 40 battalion guns, excluding Kleist’s Corps left behind in Western Pomerania) under Lieutenant-General Dohna was divided in several detachments.

Detachment of Major-General von Schlabrendorff

• Frei-Infanterie von Hordt (2 bns)
• Alt-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (4 sqns)

Main Body under Lieutenant-General von Manteuffel

• Grenadier Battalion Beyer (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Nesse (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Tann (1 bn)
• Graf zu Dohna Infantry (2 bns)
• Kanitz Infantry (2 bns)
• Lehwaldt Infantry (2 bns)
• Schorlemmer Dragoons (3 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (3 sqns)
• Ruesch Hussars (1 sqn)

Detachment of Major-General von Diericke

• IV. Standing Grenadier Battalion Lossau (1 bn)
• Tresckow Infantry (2 bns)
• Diericke Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Schorlemmer Dragoons (4 sqns)
• Ruesch Hussars (2 sqns)

Detachment of Major-General von Gablentz

• Braunschweig-Bevern Infantry (2 bns)
• Gabelentz Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Schorlemmer Dragoons (3 sqns)
• Ruesch Hussars (3 sqns)

Detachment of Major-General von Kleist

This detachment (6 bns, 7 sqns for a total of 5,180 men with 10 heavy artillery pieces and 12 battalion guns) had been left behind in Western Pomerania to observe the Swedish army.

• Grenadier Battalion Burgsdorff (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Willemey (1 bn)
• Kleist Infantry (2 bns)
• Prinz Moritz Infantry (2 bns)
• Plettenberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (1 sqn)
• Ruesch Hussars (1 sqn)
• Artillery
  • 10 x 12-pdr guns
  • 12 battalion guns

Other units which gradually joined the army

Gradually, Dohna’s Army received reinforcements:

• on June 15:
  • Puttkamer Hussars (10 sqns)
• on 24 June, Hülsen’s detachment
  • Grenadier Battalion Bornstedt (1 bn)
  • Anhalt-Bernburg Infantry (3 bns)
  • Goltz Infantry (2 bns)
  • Puttkamer Infantry (2 bns) would become Schenckendorff on July 17
  • Lestwitz Infantry (2 bns)
  • Horn Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
  • Markgraf Friedrich von Brandenburg Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
  • Schlaberndorff Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
  • Spaen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
  • Artillery
    • 10 x 12-pdr guns (Austrian style)
• at the end of June
  • Zieten Hussars (5 sqns) under Major von Reitzenstein
• at the end of July
  • I./Garrison Regiment V Jung-Sydow (1 bn)
  • II./Garrison Regiment V Jung-Sydow (1 bn)

Artillery allocation at the beginning of 1759

Field Artillery (56 pieces)

• 19 x “Austrian style” 12 pdr-guns
• 18 x light 12-pdr guns
• 1 x 24-pdr gun
• 15 x 7-pdr howitzers
• 1 x 10-pdr howitzer
• 2 x 18-pdr howitzers

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 10 Kunersdorf, Berlin, 1912, Anlage 4

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 9 Bergen, Berlin, 1911, p. 40