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