1702 – Campaign in Northern Italy – Imperialist OOB End May
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Description
Order of battle of the Imperial army around 20 May 1702
Commander-in-Chief: Prince Eugène de Savoie
Summary: 28,000 foot and 13,000 horse
Main body under Prince Eugène de Savoie encamped between Boccadiganda and San Nicolo
- Infantry
- Nigrelli (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Gschwind (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Bagni (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Guttenstein (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Jung-Daun (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Lothringen (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Longueval-Buquoy (2 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Gehlen (2 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Guethem Free Company (1 coy)
- Danish Dronningen's Livregiment (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Danish Prins Christian (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Danish Prins Carl (6 coys)
- Danish Prins Georg (6 coys)
- Danish Sjællandske (6 coys)
- Danish Jyske (1 bn) (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Cavalry
- Taaffe Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Pfalz-Neuburg Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Commercy Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Vaudémont Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Lothringen Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Serény Dragoons (6 sqns)
- Deak Hussars (800 men)
- Ebergenyi Hussars (800 men)
- Danish Rodstens Dragoons (6 coys in 2 sqns)
Near Montanara
- Infantry
- Guido Starhemberg (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Herberstein (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Rheingraf (12 coys)
- Cavalry
- Dietrichstein Dragoons (6 sqns)
- Herbeville Dragoons (6 sqns)
In Borgogorte
- Kriechbaum Infantry (2 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
Near Virgiliana in the vicinity of Mantua
- Pálffy Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
Commercy's Corps near Goito
- Infantry
- Liechtenstein (3 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Reventlau (4 bns without grenadier coy)
- Kriechbaum (2 bns)
- Danish Marine (5 coys)
- Cavalry
- Visconti Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Corbelli Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Savoyen Dragoons (6 sqns)
- Vaubonne Dragoons (6 sqns)
- Danish Juels Dragoons (6 coys in 2 sqns)
- unidentified hussar detachments (?? men)
Commercy's detachment in Marmirolo
- Gehlen Infantry (1 bn)
- Alt-Hessen-Darmstadt Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
In Garolda, Spinosa, Revere and Garzedole
- unidentified detachments
Garrisons
- in Castiglione delle Stiviere under Lieutenant-Colonel Salzer
- Longueval Infantry (2 bns)
- unidentified dragoon detachment (33 men)
- unidentified hussar detachment (25 men)
- in Cavriana under Caldonazzi
- Italian Free Company Farabutti
- in Canneto
- Gschwind Infantry (350 men) under Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Scherzer
- Longueval-Buquoy Infantry (100 men) under Captain Schulz
- unidentified dragoon detachment (?? men)
- unidentified hussar detachment (?? men)
- in Brescello under Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Wetzel (ad Interim)
- Gehlen Infantry (1 bn)
- Alt-Daun Infantry (1 bn)
- Nigrelli Infantry (1 bn)
- Guido Starhemberg Infantry (1 bn)
- Guttenstein Infantry (1 bn)
- Jung-Daun Infantry (1 bn)
Artillery
- 12 x 24-pdr Carthaunen
- 4 mortars
- 6 Geschwindgeschütze
- 58 regimental guns
There were also small detachments and garrisons in Viadana, Guastalla and Montecchio.
References
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 4, Vienna 1877, pp. 181-184
Pelet and François Eugène de Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 2 p. 722
Rockstroh, K.C.: Et Dansk Korps' Historie 1701-1709 i Italien 1701-3, i Ungarn 1704-9, Kjøbenhavn 1895
Acknowledgement
Dan Schorr for additional information concerning the Danish Contingent