1760 - Austrian campaign in Saxony – Prussian OOB June
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Description
Detailed order of battle of Frederick's Army at the beginning of June 1760
Main Army
Commander-in-Chief: King Frederick II of Prussia
Summary: 36½ bns, 68 sqns
First Line
- Right Wing (18 sqns)
- Garde du Corps (3 sqns)
- Gens d'Armes (5 sqns)
- Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
- Prinz Heinrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Centre (20 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 15/18 Anhalt (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 3/6 Hacke (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 8/46 Alt-Billerbeck (1 bn)
- Syburg Infantry (2 bns)
- Zeuner Infantry (2 bns)
- Prinz von Preußen Infantry (2 bns)
- II. and III. Garde (2 bns)
- Grenadier Garde (1 bn)
- Forcade Infantry (2 bns)
- Wedell Infantry (2 bns) ???or Vacant Wedell???
- Alt-Braunschweig Infantry (2 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 33/42 Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 1/23 Rathenow (1 bn)
- Left Wing (15 sqns)
- Markgraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns)
- Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
Second Line
- Right Wing (10 sqns)
- Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Centre (14 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 5/20 Jung-Billerbeck (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion 29/31 Falkenhayn (1 bn)
- Lestwitz Infantry (2 bns)
- Wied Fusiliers (2 bns)
- I./Gabelentz Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Anhalt-Bernburg Infantry (3 bns)
- Prinz Ferdinand Infantry (2 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion 12/39 Stechow (1 bn)
- Left Wing (5 sqns)
- Krockow Dragoons (5 sqns)
Reserve (2½ bns, 20 sqns)
- Freibataillon Courbières (1 bn)
- Freibataillon Quintus Icilius (1 bn)
- Feldjäger zu Fuß (2 coys)
- Zieten Hussars (10 sqns)
- Möhring Hussars (10 sqns)
N.B.: on June 13, the Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons (5 sqns) and Finckenstein Dragoons, who had previously camapigned with the Allies in Western Germany, joined Frederick's Army
Hülsen’s Corps
Commander: Lieutenant-General von Hülsen
Summary: 19 bns, 24 sqns
Infantry (19 bns)
- 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)
- Goltz Infantry (2 bns)
- Bevern Infantry (2 bns)
- Alt-Schenskendorff Infantry (2 bns)
- Markgraf Carl Infantry (2 bns)
- Grant Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Salmuth Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Hauss Fusiliers (1 bn)
- II/Frei-Infanterie Wunsch (1 bn)
Cavalry (24 sqns)
- Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
- Kleist Hussars (10 sqns)
- Freidragoner Kleist (4 sqns)
N.B.: Freibataillon Salenmon (1 bn) and the Freihusaren von Kleist (2 sqns) were posted near Leipzig
Artillery of the Field Army
Frederick's Army and Hülsen's Corps had a total of 114 heavy artillery pieces:
- 30 x heavy 12-pdr guns
- 50 x medium 12-pdr guns
- 14 x light 12-pdr guns
- 10 x heavy 6-pdr guns
- 10 x 7-pdr howitzers
Garrisons in the Saxon Fortresses
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)
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)
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 2