1760 - Austrian campaign in Saxony – Prussian OOB July

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Description

Detailed order of battle of Frederick's Army aton July 20, 1760

Commander-in-Chief: King Frederick II of Prussia

Main body

Vanguard under Major-General von Schenckendorff (7 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion 15/18 Anhalt (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 3/6 Hacke (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 8/46 Alt-Billerbeck (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 33/42 Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 1/23 Rathenow (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 7/30 Lubath (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 38/43 Burgsdorff (1 bn)
• 20 x medium 12-pdr guns

N.B.: hereafter, regiments are listed from right to left

First Line	Second Line	Reserve
Right Wing under Lieutenant-General von Zieten
Zieten Hussars (10 sqns) Major-General Lentulus's Brigade Garde du Corps (3 sqns) Gens d'Armes (5 sqns) Major-General von Bandemer's Brigade Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns) Prinz Heinrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)	Major-General von Meinicke's Brigade Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns) Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
Centre under General of Infantry Margrave Karl
Lieutenant-General von Hülsen Major-General von Stutterheim's Brigade Syburg Infantry (2 bns) Zeuner Infantry (2 bns) I./Prinz von Preußen Infantry (1 bn) 10 x heavy 12-pdr guns Major-General von Zeuner's Brigade II./Prinz von Preußen Infantry (1 bn) II. and III. Garde (2 bns) Grenadier Garde (1 bn) I./Forcade Infantry (1 bn) 10 x medium 12-pdr guns Lieutenant-General von Wedel Major-General von Saldern's Brigade II./Forcade Infantry (1 bn) Wedell Infantry (2 bns) ???or Vacant Wedell??? Alt-Braunschweig Infantry (2 bns) 10 x medium 12-pdr guns Major-General von Syburg's Brigade Lestwitz Infantry (2 bns) Grenadier Battalion 5/20 Jung-Billerbeck (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion 29/31 Falkenhayn (1 bn) 10 x heavy 12-pdr guns	Lieutenant-General Count Wied Major-General von Tettenborn's Brigade Wied Fusiliers (2 bns) Gabelentz Fusiliers (2 bns) 10 x heavy 12-pdr guns Major-General Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg's Brigade Anhalt-Bernburg Infantry (3 bns) 10 x heavy 12-pdr guns Lieutenant-General von Bülow Colonel von Butzke's Brigade Prinz Ferdinand Infantry (2 bns) Grenadier Battalion 11/14 Beyer (1 bn) 10 howitzers Major-General von Braun's Brigade Grenadier Battalion G-I/G-XI Lossau (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion 2/G-II Nesse (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion 12/39 Stechow (1 bn) Goltz Infantry (2 bns) 10 x medium 12-pdr guns	Lieutenant-General Count Finckenstein Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons (5 sqns) Kleist Hussars (10 sqns) Lieutenant-General von Schorlemer Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns) Freidragoner Kleist (4 sqns)
Left Wing under Lieutenant-General Duke of Holstein-Gottopr
Major-General von Schlabrendorff's Brigade Markgraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Major-General von Aschersleben's Brigade Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns) Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Möhring Hussars (10 sqns)	Major-General von Bredow Krockow Dragoons (5 sqns)

Detachments

Guarding the pontoons under Major-General von Sydow

• Grant Fusiliers (2 bns)
• 4 x light 12-pdr guns

On the heights west of Plauen under Major-General von Kleist

• Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Markgraf Carl Infantry (2 bns)
• Salmuth Fusiliers (2 bns)
• II/Frei-Infanterie Wunsch (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Quintus Icilius (1 bn)
• Selected hussars (200 men from Zieten Hussars and Möhring Hussars)
• 10 x light 12-pdr guns

In the trenches under Colonel von Linden

• Feldjäger zu Fuß (2 coys)
• Bevern Infantry (2 bns)
• Alt-Schenckendorff Infantry (2 bns)
• Freibataillon Courbières (1 bn)

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, Anlage 6