1760 - Austrian campaign in Saxony – Austrian OOB early June
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Order of battle of Daun's Grand Army in early June 1760
Order of battle of Daun's Grand Army near Dresden
Commander-in-chief: Field-Marshal Leopold Count Daun
| First Line | Second Line |
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| Right wing cavalry | |
Cavalry (20 sqns, 4 elite coys):
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Cavalry (15 sqns and 3 elite coys):
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| Infantry centre | |
Infantry (20 bns, 20 grenadier coys):
Artillery (84 pieces)
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Infantry (20 bns, 20 grenadier coys):
Artillery (36 pieces):
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NB.: During June the 40 grenadier coys of the first and second lines were converged into 6 bns (4 of 6 coys each, 2 of 8 coys each).
Artillery (69 pieces) arming the forward entrenchments and extra posts of the Grand Army
- 48 x 3-pdr guns
- 7 x 6-pdr guns
- 10 x 12-pdr guns
- 1 x 7-pdr howitzer
Light troops:
- Unidentified jäger units (700 men)
- Unidentified Grenzer units (2,700 men)
- Hadik Hussars (6 sqns)
- Szechényi Hussars (6 sqns)
- Slavonier Grenz-Hussars (2 sqns) under Engelshofen
Headquarters:
- Stabs-Infanterie (1 bn)
- Stabsdragoner (4 sqns)
Artillery park (29 pieces)
- 18 x 3-pdr guns
- 1 x 6-pdr gun
- 2 x 12-pdr guns
- 8 x 24-pdr guns
Garrison of Dresden
Commander: General Count Macquire
Infantry (7 bns, 3 grenadier coys = 2 of Luzan and 1 of Clerici)
- Luzzara (1 bn)
- Clerici (1 bn)
- Jung-Wolfenbüttel (1 garrison bn)
- Pallavicini (1 garrison bn)
- Harsch (1 garrison bn)
- Alt-Colloredo (1 garrison bn)
- Puebla (1 garrison bn)
Artillery (12 pieces)
- 12 x 3-pdr guns
Reserve Corps at Dippoldiswalde
Commander: General Count Wied
Cavalry (10 sqns, 2 elite coys):
- Saint-Ignon Chevauxlegers (5 sqns)
- Benedikt Daun Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
Infantry (10 bns, 12 grenadier coys)
- Pallavicini (2 bns)
- Sachsen-Gotha (1 bn)
- Mainz-Lamberg (2 bns)
- Rot Würzburg (2 bns)
- Nikolaus Esterházy (2 bns)
- Macquire (1 bn)
Artillery (54 pieces)
- 36 x 3-pdr guns
- 12 x 6-pdr guns
- 4 x 12-pdr guns
- 2 x 7-pdr howitzers
Corps Lacy on the east bank of the Elbe
Commander: Field-Marshal Count Lacy
Infantry (16 bns, 15 grenadier coys)
- Heinrich Daun (2 bns)
- Jung-Wolfenbüttel (2 bns)
- de Ligne (2 bns)
- Alt-Colloredo (2 bns)
- Lacy (2 bns)
- Thürheim (2 bns)
- Bethlen (2 bns)
- Haller (2 bns)
Light troops
- Unidentified jäger units (500 men)
- Unidentified Grenzer units (2,800 men)
Cavalry (25 sqns, 1 horse grenadier coy):
- Liechtenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Saxon Karabiniergarde (5 sqns)
- Saxon Herzog von Kurland Chevauxlegers (5 sqns)
- Saxon Prinz Albrecht Chevauxlegers (5 sqns)
- Saxon Graf Brühl Chevauxlegers (5 sqns)
Light cavalry (20 sqns)
- Saxon Graf Rudnicki Uhlanen (4 sqns)
- Saxon Schiebel Uhlanen (4 sqns)
- Kaiser Franz I Hussars (6 sqns)
- Paul Anton Esterházy Hussars (6 sqns)
Artillery (66 pieces)
- 40 x 3-pdr guns
- 12 x 6-pdr guns
- 8 x 12-pdr guns
- 6 x 7-pdr howitzers
Corps Ried near Freiberg (Saxony)
Commander; Major-General Ried
Infantry (1 bn and 2 grenadier coys):
- Blau Würzburg (1 bn)
Light troops
- Unidentified Grenzer units (2,590 men)
Cavalry (8 sqns):
- Palatinal Hussars (6 sqns)
- Banalisten Grenz-Hussars (2 sqns)
Corps Beck on the Upper Queiss River
N.B.: this corps was stationed on the borders of Lusatia, Lower Silesia and Northern Bohemia.
Commander : General Baron Beck
Infantry (4 bns, 4 grenadier coys):
Light troops
- Beck's Volunteers (1 bn)
- Unidentified Grenzer units (2,600 men)
Cavalry (5 sqn, 1 horse grenadier coy):
- Jung-Modena Chevauxlegers (5 sqns)
Light cavalry (12 sqns):
- Splényi Hussars (6 sqns)
- Dessewffy Hussars (6 sqns)
Artillery (28 pieces)
- 20 x 3-pdr guns
- 4 x 6-pdr guns
- 2 x 12-pdr guns
- 2 x 7-pdr howitzers
References
Großer Generalstab, Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II (Publisher). Die Kriege Friedrichs des Großen. Dritter Teil: Der Siebenjährige Krieg 1756–1763. Vol. XII, supplement 3
Acknowledgments
Christian Rogge for the initial version of this article
