1701 – Imperialist invasion of Northern Italy – Imperialist OOB June
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Description
Order of battle of the Imperial army on 6 June 1701, when the main body had passed the Alps.
Corps (3,100 foot, 100 horse) under GFWM Count Guttenstein placed in observation in front of Monte Baldo
- Nigrelli Infantry (3 bns) a fourth bn was probably in the area of Trento
- Alt-Starhemberg Infantry (1 bn)
- Guttenstein Infantry (1 bn)
- Dietrichstein Dragoons (detachment of 100 men)
Main body (12,000 foot, 4,400 horse) under Prince Eugène de Savoie encamped at San Martino near Verona
- Alt-Starhemberg Infantry (3 bns)
- Guido Starhemberg Infantry (3 bns)
- Herberstein Infantry (3 bns)
- Bagni Infantry (3 bns)
- Jung-Daun Infantry (4 bns)
- Guttenstein Infantry (3 bns)
- Dietrichstein Dragoons (400 men)
- Savoyen Dragoons
- Lothringen Cuirassiers
- Vaudémont Cuirassiers
- Pálffy Cuirassiers
- Artillery (20 pieces)
- Deák Hussars (4 coys)
Cavalry corps (2,500 horse) under FML Count Pálffy on the Adige near Legnano
- Corbelli Cuirassiers
- Serényi Dragoons
- Dietrichstein Dragoons (rest of the regiment)
- Artillery (6 pieces)
Various units (for a total of 3,700 foot, 5,000 horse) still on the move across the Alps
- Mansfeld Infantry (4 bns) destined to join Guttenstein's Corps as soon as it would arrive in Ala
- IV./Bagni Infantry (1 bn)
- IV./Herberstein Infantry (1 bn)
- Commercy Cuirassiers
- Pfalz-Neuburg Cuirassiers
- Alt-Hessen-Darmstadt Cuirassiers
- Taaffe Cuirassiers (from Bohemia)
- Visconti Cuirassiers (from Hungary)
In Rovereto guarding the train and artillery park
- IV./Guido Starhemberg Infantry (1 bn for a total of 600 men)
The following regiments are not listed in this order of battle and were probably still on the march towards South Tyrol:
- Fürstenberg Infantry (from Bohemia)
- Lothringen Infantry (from Austria)
- Gschwind Infantry (from Austria)
- Vaubonne Dragoons (from Germany)
Finally a Danish Auxiliary Corps was on the march from Saxony.
References
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 3, Vienna 1876, p. 171-172