1760 - Austrian campaign in Saxony – Prussian OOB Hülsen August

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Description

Field Army

Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Hülsen

Summary: 18 bns, 2 jäger coys, 26 sqns with approx. 35 heavy artillery pieces for a total of 12,000 men.

Infantry (17 bns, 2 jäger coys)

• Grenadier Battalion 7/30 Lubath (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 38/43 Burgsdorff (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 11/14 Beyer (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion G-I/G-XI Lossau (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 2/G-II Nesse (1 bn)
• Bevern Infantry (2 bns)
• Alt-Schenckendorff Infantry (2 bns)
• Markgraf Carl Infantry (2 bns)
• Salmuth Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Grant Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Hauss Fusiliers (1 bn of 5 coys)
• Feldjäger zu Fuß (2 coys)
• II./Frei-Infanterie Wunsch (1 bn)

Cavalry (24 sqns)

• Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
• Kleist Hussars (10 sqns)
• Freidragoner Kleist (4 sqns)

Detachment near Leipzig under Major-General von Salenmon

• Freibataillon Salenmon (1 bn)
• Freihusaren Kleist (2 sqns)

Garrisons in the Saxon Fortresses

Garrison of Leipzig under Major von Keller (3 bns)

• I./Horn Fusiliers (1 bn)
• III./Garrison Regiment Itzenplitz (1 bn)
• IV./Garrison Regiment Itzenplitz (1 bn)

Garrison of Torgau under Major von Normann (3 bns)

• Garrison Regiment Lettow (2 bns)
• I./Garrison Regiment Grolmann (1 bn)

Garrison of Wittenberg under Colonel von Plotho (3 bns)

• Plotho Fusiliers (2 bns)
• II./Garrison Regiment Grolmann (1 bn)
• New Garrison Regiment (1 coy)

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 13 Torgau, Berlin, 1914, Anlage 9