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
At the end of May 1760, the main Austrian army, including Lacy's Beck's and Ried's corps totalled 44,944 regular infantry, 10,944 Grenzer light troops and jägers, 17,545 regular cavalry and 5,179 hussars and uhlans, for a grand total of 78,372 men.
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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Left wing cavalry | |
Cavalry (20 sqns, 4 elite coys):
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Cavalry (15 sqns, 3 elite coys):
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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)
- Slavonisches 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: FZM Count Macquire
Infantry (7 bns, 3 grenadier coys = 2 of Luzzara 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: FZM 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: FZM 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 Baron von 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 : FML 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: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 12 Landeshut und Liegnitz, Berlin, 1913, supplement 3
Acknowledgments
Christian Rogge for the initial version of this article