1760 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia – Prussian OoB early June

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Description

Field Army

Commander-in-Chief: General of Infantry Baron de la Motte-Fouqué

Summary: 19 bns and 18 sqns with 40 heavy artillery pieces for a total of approx. 14,500 men

Infantry (19 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion Sobeck (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Koschembahr (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Wobersnow (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion 28/32 Arnim (1 bn)
• Fouqué Fusiliers (2 bns)
• I./Mosel Infantry (1 bn)
• Braun Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Bülow Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Markgraf Friedrich Fusiliers (2 bns)
• II./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn)
• III./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn)
• IV./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Le Noble (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Lüderitz (1 bn)
• Freibataillon Collignon (1 bn)

Cavalry (18 sqns)

• Alt-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Werner Hussars (5 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (8 sqns)

Heavy Artillery (40 pieces)

• 10 x heavy 12-pdr guns
• 10 x light 12-pdr guns
• 10 x 6-pdr guns
• 10 x 7-pdr and 10-pdr howitzers

Garrisons in the Silesian Fortresses

In Breslau (approx. 3,800 men under Major-General von Tauentzien)

• I./Leibgarde (1 bn)
• Rebentisch Infantry (1 bn)
• Knobloch Infantry (1 bn)
• III./Garrison Regiment Alt-Sydow (1 bn)
• IV./Garrison Regiment Alt-Sydow (1 bn)
• Convalescents from various regiments (300 men)
• Württemberg Dragoons (1 detachment)
• Gersdorff Hussars (1 detachment)
• Garrison Artillery (1 detachment)

In Schweidnitz (approx. 4,100 men under Major-General von Zastrow)

• Tresckow Infantry (2 bns)
• Zastrow Fusiliers (1 bn)
• Münchow Fusiliers (1 bn)
• Bülow Fusiliers and Grenadier Battalion Wobersnow (350 selected men from these two units)
• Mineurs (1 detachment)
• Garrison Artillery (1 detachment)
• unidentified hussar unit (1 detachment)

In Neisse (approx. 4,000 men under Lieutenant-General von Tresckow)

• II./Mosel Infantry (1 bn)
• Garrison Regiment Blanckensee (4 bns)
• II./Garrison Regiment Alt-Sydow (1 bn)
• I./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn)
• Garrison Artillery (1 coy)
• Mineurs (1 coy)
• Gersdorff Hussars (1 detachment)

In Cosel (approx. 2,200 men under Lieutenant-General von Lattorff)

• I./Garrison Regiment Lattorff (1 bn)
• II./Garrison Regiment Lattorff (1 bn)
• III./Garrison Regiment Jung-Sydow (1 bn)
• IV./Garrison Regiment Jung-Sydow (1 bn)
• Garrison Artillery (1 coy)
• Mineurs (1 detachment)
• Möhring Hussars (1 detachment)

In Glatz (approx. 3,200 men under Lieutenant-Colonel d'O)

• Grenadier Battalion Unruh (1 bn)
• Garrison Regiment Quadt (4 bns)
• Fouqué Fusiliers and Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky (100 selected men from these two units)
• Garrison Artillery (1 coy)
• Mineurs (1 coy)
• Gersdorff Hussars (1 detachment)

In Brieg (approx. 800 men under Lieutenant-Colonel von Sass)

• III./Garrison Regiment Lattorff (1 bn)
• Thile Infantry (1 detachment)
• Garrison Artillery (1 detachment)
• Möhring Hussars (1 detachment)
• Gersdorff Hussars (1 detachment)

In Glogau (approx. 1,200 men under Major von Lichnowsky)

• I./Garrison Regiment Itzenplitz (1 bn)
• IV./Garrison Regiment Lattorff (1 bn)
• Garrison Artillery (1 detachment)
• Mineurs (1 detachment)
• Ruesch Hussars (1 detachment)
• Werner Hussars (1 detachment)

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