1762 - French campaign in West Germany – French Armies OOB November
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On November 20 1762, Louis XV issued his instructions regarding the French armies serving in Germany, specifying which units should return to France right away and which should stay in Germany till the final evacuation.
Units returning to France
- from the Upper Rhine (39 bns)
- Navarre (4 bns)
- Grenadiers de France (4 bns)
- Grenadiers Royaux d'Argentré (2 bns)
- Grenadiers Royaux le Camus (2 bns)
- Grenadiers Royaux la Roche-Lambert (2 bns)
- Grenadiers Royaux Narbonne (2 bns)
- Grenadiers Royaux de l'Espinasse (2 bns)
- Royal Deux-Ponts (3 bns)
- Royal Suédois (3 bns)
- Nassau (Prince Louis) (3 bns)
- La Marck (3 bns)
- Courten (2 bns)
- Eptingen (2 bns)
- V./Corps Royal de l'Artillerie – Brigade de Villepatour (1 bn)
- Militia (4 bns)
- from the Lower Rhine (14 bns)
- Anhalt-Coëthen (3 bns)
- Royal Bavière (3 bns)
- Vierzet (2 bns)
- Bouillon (2 bns)
- Reding (2 bns)
- Militia (2 bns)
Units remaining in Germany till the final evacuation
- on the Upper Rhine (42 bns, 24 dragoon sqns, 40 cavalry sqns and 5 units of light troops)
- Picardie (4 bns)
- Bourbonnais (4 bns)
- Alsace (4 bns)
- Boccard (2 bns)
- Diesbach (2 bns)
- Waldner (2 bns)
- Castellas (2 bns)
- Salis de Mayenfeld (2 bns)
- VI./Corps Royal de l'Artillerie – Brigade d'Invilliers (1 bn)
- Saxon Contingent (15 bns)
- Kurprinzessin (2 bns)
- Prinz Friedrich August (2 bns)
- Prinz Xaver (2 bns)
- Garde zu Fuss (1 bn)
- Prinz Karl Maximilian (1 bn)
- Prinz Joseph (1 bn)
- Prinz Anton (1 bn)
- Prinz Clemens (1 bn)
- Graf Brühl (1 bn)
- Fürst Lubomirsky (1 bn)
- Rochow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Prinz Sachsen-Gotha (1 bn)
- Dauphin Dragons (4 sqns)
- Languedoc Dragons (4 sqns)
- Choiseul Dragons (4 sqns)
- Autichamp Dragons (4 sqns)
- Orléans Dragons (4 sqns)
- Cuirassiers de Saxe (4 sqns)
- Colonel Général Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Royal-Allemand Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Nassau-Ussingen Cavalerie (2 sqns)
- Cuirassiers du Roy (4 sqns)
- Carabiniers (10 sqns)
- Bercheny Hussards (6 sqns)
- Chamborant Hussards (6 sqns)
- Volontaires Royaux de Nassau (4 sqns)
- Légion Royale
- Volontaires du Hainaut
- Volontaires d'Austrasie
- Volontaires de Soubise
- Volontaires de Wurmser
- on the Lower Rhine (13 bns, 8 dragoon sqns and 4 units of light troops)
- Champagne (4 bns)
- Piémont (4 bns)
- d'Arbonnier (2 bns)
- II./Corps Royal de l'Artillerie – Brigade Loyauté (1 bn)
- Lochmann (2 bns)
- Flamarens Dragons (4 sqns)
- Schomberg Dragons (4 sqns)
- Volontaires Étrangers de Clermont Prince
- Volontaires du Dauphiné
- Chasseurs de Cambefort
- Dragons Chasseurs de Conflans
- on the Meuse (20 sqns)
- Royal Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Royal-Cravate Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Royal-Piémont Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Dauphin Cavalerie (4 sqns)
- Chapt Dragons (4 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. 462
