Brunswick Army
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Guards
Line Infantry
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
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
- 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