1760 - French campaign in West Germany – French Winter Quarters December
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Broglie's Army of the Upper Rhine on December 30 1760
Commander-in-chief: Victor François, Duc de Broglie
Summary:103 bns and 95 sqns deployed as follows:
- at Vacha: Castellas (2 bns)
- from Treffurt on the Werra to Eisenach: Saxon Contingent (13 bns) N.B.: one of the following battalion was not present but we do not know which one
- Kurprinzessin (2 bns)
- Prinz Sachsen-Gotha (1 bn)
- Prinz Anton (1 bn)
- Graf Brühl (1 bn)
- Rochow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Fürst Lubomirsky (1 bn)
- Prinz Clemens (1 bn)
- Prinz Joseph (1 bn)
- Prinz Friedrich August (2 bns)
- Prinz Xaver (2 bns)
- Prinz Karl Maximilian (1 bn)
- Butzbach: Jenner (2 bns)
- Lichtenau: Courten (2 bns)
- Wanfried: Volontaires du Hainaut, Volontaires d'Austrasie
- Eschwege: Picardie (4 bns)
- Allendorf: Grenadiers Royaux de Modène (2 bns)
- Oberode: Grenadiers Royaux le Camus (1 bn), Grenadiers Royaux de Chantilly (2 bns)
- Witzenhausen: Condé (2 bns)
- Almerode on the Gelster: Durfort (2 bns)
- Munden at the confluence of the Werra and Fulda: Grenadiers de France (4 bns), Aquitaine (2 bns)
- Sandershausen: Provence (2 bns)
- Kassel: Navarre (4 bns), Belzunce (4 bns)
- Krumbach: Volontaires de Saint-Denis, Volontaires de Saint-Victor, Volontaires de Neufchatel
- Oberzwehren and Niederzwehren: Champagne (3 bns)
- Nordhausen: Volontaires Étrangers de Clermont Prince, Volontaires du Dauphiné
- Gilserberg: Bourbonnais (4 bns)
- Fritzlar on the Edder: Grenadiers Royaux de Narbonne (2 bns)
- Friedberg: Royal Suédois (3 bns)
- Fulda: Dauphin (2 bns), Bourbon-Busset (2 sqns)
- Hirschfeld: Diesbach (2 bns), Eptingen (2 bns)
- Treyssa: Nassau Prince Louis (3 bns)
- Ziegenhain: Nassau (3 bns) (more probably Anhalt), Ornans Militia (1 bn)
- Gemunden: La Marck (3 bns)
- Marburg: Bulkeley (1 bn), Royal Écossais (1 bn), Ogilvy (1 bn), Dillon (1 bn)
- Giessen: Boccard (2 bns), Reding (2 bns), Salis de Mayenfeld (2 bns) Berwick (1 bn), O'Brien de Clare (1 bn), Rooth (1 bn)
- Hanau: Du Roi (4 bns), Beaufremont Dragons (2 sqns), Apchon Dragons (4 sqns)
- Frankfurt: Royal Deux-Ponts (3 bns), Waldner (2 bns)
- Offenbach: VI./Corps Royal de l'Artillerie - Brigade de Mouy (1 bn), V./Corps Royal de l'Artillerie - Brigade de Villepatour (1 bn), Laon Militia (1 bn)
- Koblenz citadelle: Paris Militia
- Geisa: Commissaire général (2 sqns)
- Hofbieber: d'Hericy (2 sqns)
- Dornbach: Seyssel (2 sqns)
- Bischausen: Moustiers (2 sqns)
- Reichensaxen: Ray (2 sqns)
- Wipperode: Lusignan (2 sqns)
- Grossborsel: Cuirassiers du Roy (2 sqns)
- Datterode: Noë (2 sqns)
- Rambach: Chabrillan (2 sqns)
- Weissenhorn: des Salles (2 sqns)
- Ergershaus: Dauphin (2 sqns)
- Arnstein: Condé (2 sqns)
- Hahn: Fleury (2 sqns)
- Langenschwalbach: Fitz-James (2 sqns), Royal-Allemand Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Idstein: Wurtemberg Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Wiesbaden: Nassau-Sarrebruck Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Limburg: Carabiniers (10 sqns)
- Montabaur and surroundings: Royal (2 sqns), Orléans (2 sqns), Damas (2 sqns), Rochefoucauld-Langeac (2 sqns)
- Nastatten: Orléans Dragons (4 sqns), Caraman Dragons (4 sqns)
- Trebur: Toustain (2 sqns)
- Siegen and surroundings: Royal-Nassau Hussards (4 sqns), Turpin Hussards (6 sqns)
- Gotha: Du Roy Dragons (4 sqns), La Ferronnaye Dragons (4 sqns), Schomberg (3 sqns)
- Oberweimar and Niederweimar: Légion Royale (mounted)
- Alzey and Kreuznach: Volontaires du Dauphiné (mounted), Volontaires Étrangers de Clermont Prince (mounted)
de Muy's Army of the Lower Rhine on December 30 1760
Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Marquis de Muy
Summary: 50 bns and 44 sqns deployed as follows:
- Cologne: de Torcy (11 bns, 8 sqns)
- Düsseldorf: d'Auvet (6 bns, 2 sqns)
- Duchy of Bergh: Fischer Corps (2 bns)
- Meurs: Maugiron (6 bns, 8 sqns)
- Wesel: Castella (10 bns)
- Kleve: Voyer (9 bns, 10 sqns)
- Gueldre: Polignac (1 bn, 4 sqns)
- Liège: Andlau (5 bns, 12 sqns)
References
This article is a compilation of texts from the following book which is now in the public domain:
- Pajol, Charles P. V.: Les Guerres sous Louis XV, vol. V, Paris, 1891, p. 114
