Brunswick Army

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Guards

Garde du Corps

Line Infantry

Organisation

Musketeer Regiments

Each regiment (1,640 men) counted two battalions. Each battalion counted one grenadier company of 141 men; and five musketeer companies of 134 men; and had two light guns.

Leib-Regiment
von Imhoff
von Behr; 1760 Mansberg
von Zastrow; 1761 Prinz Friedrich August

Fusilier Regiments

Völschen Fusiliers Bataillon, raised in 1761

Converged Grenadier Battalions

Front plate of the mitre cap of an unidentified Brunswick grenadier unit in 1750. - Source: Digby Smith

Front plate of the mitre cap of an unidentified Brunswick grenadier unit in 1777. - Source: Digby Smith

In 1759, when the converged grenadier battalions became independent battalions, each of them consisted of four companies for a total of 588 men.

No 1 - Leib-Regiment/Imhoff Grenadiers; 1759, independent battalion von Stammer; 1761, Warnstedt
No 2 - Behr/Zastrow Grenadiers; 1759 independent battalion von Redecken; 1761, Imhoff
No 3 - Zastrow/Militia Grenadiers, formed of grenadiers contributed from von Zastrow and militia, raised in 1759 as battalion von Wittorf; 1761, Rothenburg; 1761, Koppelow; 1762, Appelboom
Leib-Grenadier Corps, raised 1759 (did not take to the field)

Cavalry

Dragoons aka Bibow, converted into a Regiment of Carabiniers in 1759 (from 1760 on with the Allied army)
Hussars von Roth, raised in 1759; 1761 Riedesel

Artillery

Brunswick Artillery (serving the regimental guns)

N.B.: there was no heavy artillery with the Brunswick army during the Seven Years' War.

Light Troops

Jäger Corps raised in 1759
"Volontaires auxiliaires" (so called), raised in 1762

Garrison Troops and Militia

Garnison-Regiment Hadell, Kniestedt in 1757
Land-Regiment Bohlen
Blankenburger Land-Kompagnie
Kompanie Garnisonartillerie

All these unit were not on the Allied army's field état. They remained within the Brunswick territories.

Reference

• "Bechersche Handschrift": Becher, Johann Christian: Wahrhaftige Nachricht derer Begebenheiten, so sich in dem Herzogthum Weimar by dem gewaltigen Kriege Friedrichs II., Königs von Preußen, mit der Königin von Ungarn, Marien Theresen, samt ihren Bundesgenossen zugetragen, Weimar, ca. 1757-1760
  • Original (Stiftung Weimarer Klassik - Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar)
  • Copies (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin)
  • Copies(Bibliothèque nationale de France, De Ridder collection)
• Elster, Otto: Geschichte der stehenden Truppen im Herzogtum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel,
  • 1. Band: 1600 - 1714 (Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig)
  • 2. Band: 1714 - 1806 (Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig)
• Großer Generalstab, Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II (Publisher). Die Kriege Friedrichs des Großen. Dritter Teil: Der Siebenjährige Krieg 1756–1763. Vol. 5 Hastenbeck und Roßbach, Berlin 1903
  • chapter A: Die Truppen der Deutschen Mittel- und Kleinstaaten, 2. Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, page 4-5
  • appendix: supplement 2, Truppen des Herzogthums Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, page 6-7
• Ortenburg, Georg von, Braunschweigisches Militär, Elm Verlag, Cremlingen, 1987
• Schirmer; Friedrich, Die Heere der kriegführenden Staaten 1756 - 1763. Edited and published by KLIO-Landesgruppe Baden-Württemberg e.V., Magstadt, 1989
• Stolz, Gerd: Das braunschweigische Husaren-Regiment von Riedesel, in: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde, Nr. 247, XXXVII Jg. (1973), S. 118-123