1760 - Austrian campaign in Saxony – Reichsarmee OOB late June

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Oberbehfelshaber: Field Marshal Prince von Pfalz-Zweibrücken

35 bns, 17 grenadier coys, 36 sqns, 19,127 men, more than 2,500 horse.

• Main Korps: GFM Prinz von Zweibrücken (26 bns, 18 grenadier coys, 22 sqns; 14,314 men and 2,205 horse)
  • Kurmainz (4 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Kurtrier (2 bns)
  • Kurköln (1 bn, 1 grenadier coy)
  • Infantry Regiment Mengersen (1 bn, 1 grenadier coy)
  • Kurbayern (3 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Ernestinisch Sachsen Infantry (2 bns)
  • Baden-Durlach (2 bn, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Pfalz-Zweibrücken (2 bns)
  • Baden-Baden (1 bn, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Alt-Württemberg Fusiliers (1 bn, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Fürstenberg (2 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Hessen-Darmstadt (1 bn, 1 grenadier coy)
  • Kurpfalz Garde zu Fuss (1 bn, 1 grenadier coy)
  • Effern (2 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment nr. 1 (or maybe nr. 2, the original text doesn’t specifies) (1 bn) (KK)
  • Cuirassier Regiment Kurpfalz(3 sqns)
  • Leib-Dragoner Regiment Kurfürstin (5 sqns) (it is a guess: the original text says “Kurpfalz Dragoner” but an unit with that name doesn’t exist)
  • Cuirassier Regiment Bayreuth (5 sqns)
  • Hohenzollern Cuirassiers (3 sqns)
  • Baranyay Hussars (6 sqns) (KK)

• Detached Korps: FML Luszinsky (7 bns, 7 grenadier coys, 14 sqns, about 4813 men including 200 Grenzers and 300 Saxon “Revertenten”. No figures are given for the horses.
  • Salzburg (2 bns, 1 grenadier coys)
  • Infantry Regiment Hohenhole (2 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Infantry Regiment Varell (2 bns, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Cronegk (1 bn, 2 grenadier coys)
  • Ansbach Dragoons (5 sqns)
  • Kreisregiment Sachsen-Gotha Dragoon (2 sqns)
  • Dragoon Regiment Württemberg (2 sqns)
  • 250 Hussars (KK)
  • 160 Jägers of the German Free-Jäger Corps (Otto) (KK)

References

• Boehm, E.; Rottgardt, D.: Die Reichsarmee 1757-1763 I. Teil. Zusammensetzung und Organisation, Manuskript, KLIO - Arbeitsgruppe 7jähriger Krieg, 1979
• Boehm, E.; Rottgardt, D., Weirich, W.-D.: Die Reichsarmee 1757-1763 II. Teil. Die einzelnen Einheiten, ihre Stärke, Zusammensetzung, Uniform und Feldzeichen, Manuskript, KLIO - Arbeitsgruppe 7jähriger Krieg, o.J.
• 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

Acknowledgement

Fabrizio Davi for the initial version of this article