1760 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia – Austrian OoB mid August

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Order of battle of Austrian forces in Silesia in mid-August 1760

Main Army

Commander-in-chief: Field Marshal Count Leopold Daun

First and Second Lines (36 bns, 50 sqns, 116 field pieces, 72 regimental guns for a total of 26,750 men)

Infantry (36 bns, 36 grenadier coys)

Cavalry (50 sqns, 10 elite coys)

Artillery (116 field pieces, 72 regimental guns)

  • 34 x 3-pdr guns
  • 36 x 6-pdr guns
  • 22 x 12-pdr guns
  • 8 x 24-pdr guns
  • 16 x 7-pdr howitzers
  • 72 x 3-pdr regimental guns

Reserve (8 bns, 16 sqns, 12 regimental guns for a total of 7,150 men) under General of Cavalry Prince Löwenstein

Infantry (8 bns, 8 grenadier coys)

Cavalry (16 sqns, 3 elite coys)

Beck's Corps (3 bns, 2,600 Grenzers, 15 sqns, 18 field pieces, 6 regimental guns for a total of 6,770 men) under FML Baron von Beck

Infantry (3 bns, 1 grenadier coy, 2,600 Grenzers)

Cavalry (15 sqns, 1 elite cavalry coy)

Artillery (18 field pieces, 6 regimental guns)

  • 10 x 3-pdr guns
  • 4 x 6-pdr guns
  • 2 x 12-pdr guns
  • 2 x 7-pdr howitzers
  • 6 x 3-pdr regimental guns

Ried's Corps (2,400 Grenzers, 18 sqns for a total of 3,290 men) under Major-General von Ried

Infantry (2,400 Grenzers)

  • Unidentified Grenzer units (2,400 men)

Cavalry (18 sqns)

Lacy's Corps (15 bns, 2,150 Grenzers, 48 sqns for a total of 18,150 men) under FZM Count Lacy

Infantry (15 bns, 16 grenadier coys, 2,150 Grenzers)

Cavalry (48 sqns, 2 elite cvalary coys)

Artillery (46 field pieces, 30 regimental guns)

  • 16 x 3-pdr guns
  • 14 x 6-pdr guns
  • 10 x 12-pdr guns
  • 6 x 7-pdr howitzers
  • 30 x 3-pdr regimental guns

Army of Silesia (aka Loudon's Corps)

Commander-in-chief: FZM Ernst Gideon Baron Loudon

Infantry (35 bns, 42 grenadier coys)

N.B.: the grenadier companies of this corps had been converged into 7 bns to form, along with the Grün Loudon Grenadiers, the Grenadier Corps

Light Troops (4 bns)

Cavalry (29 sqns, 11 elite coy)

Artillery (50 field pieces, a few regimental guns)

Wolfersdorff's Corps (8 bns 10 sqns, 6 field pieces and 16 regimental guns for a total of 6,000 men) under FML von Wolfersdorff

Infantry (8 bns among those already listed as part of Loudon's Corps, including the single bn of Los Rios Infantry)

Cavalry (10 sqns)

Artillery (6 field pieces, 16 regimental guns)

  • 2 x 3-pdr guns
  • 2 x 6-pdr guns
  • 2 x 12-pdr guns
  • 16 x regimental guns

Nauendorf's Corps (32 sqns) under Major-General von Nauendorf

Cavalry (32 sqns)

Jahnus's Corps

Commander-in-chief: Major-General von Jahnus

Summary: 2,700 men

Infantry (6 bns, 4 grenadier coys)

  • Salm (3 bns, including the garrison bn)
  • Königsegg (2 bns)
  • Platz (1 garrison bn)
  • Converged grenadier (4 coys)

Light Troops (2 bns)

Cavalry

Artillery (12 to 16 regimental guns)

Bethlen's Corps

Commander-in-chief: Major-General von Bethlen

Summary: 1,600 men

Light Troops (2 bns, 1 grenadier coy)

Cavalry (9 sqns)

Near Glatz

Commander-in-Chief: FML Count Drašković

Summary: 5,390 men

Infantry (9 bns)

Light Troops (5 bns) guarding the mountain passes

Cavalry (290 men) maybe the Slavonisches Grenz-Hussars

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 13 Torgau, Berlin, 1914, Anlage 2

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