1702 – Campaign in Northern Italy – Imperialist OOB March
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Description
Order of battle of the Imperial army in Nothern Italy in March 1702
Commander-in-Chief: Prince Eugène de Savoie
Summary: 28,800 Imperial foot, 3,981 Danish foot, 13,400 Imperial horse and 1,000 Danish horse. For a total of 32, 781 foot and 14,400 horse.
Austrian troops
On average, an infantry battalion counted 600 men; a grenadier company, 100 men; a free company, 100 men; a cuirassier or dragoon regiment, 1,000 men.
Infantry
- Nigrelli (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Gschwind (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Jung-Daun (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Kriechbaum (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Mansfeld (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Guido Starhemberg (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Herberstein (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Guttenstein (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Lothringen (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Longueval-Buquoy (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Liechtenstein (2 bns)
- Bagni (4 bns and 1 grenadier coy)
- Frei-Compagnie de Guethem (1 coy)
Cuirassiers
- Taafe (6 sqns)
- Commercy (6 sqns)
- Visconti (6 sqns)
- Vaudémont (6 sqns)
- Lothringen (6 sqns)
- Corbelli (6 sqns)
- Pálffy (6 sqns)
- Pfalz-Neuburg (6 sqns)
- Alt-Hessen-Darmstadt (6 sqns)
Dragoons
- Dietrichstein (6 sqns)
- Serényi (6 sqns)
- Savoyen (6 sqns)
- Vaubonne (6 sqns)
Hussars
- Deák (2 sqns)
- Ebergény (10 coys for a total of 1,000 men) on the march to Northern Italy
Artillery
- 58 x 3-pdr regimental guns
- 12 x 24-pdr Karthaunen
- 4 x mortars
- 6 x 3-pdr Geschwindgeschütze
- a detachment of miners
Train
- 806 men
- 150 wagons
- 600 horses
- 1,512 oxen
Danish contingent
On average, a battalion counted between 450 and 630 men; a squadron, 150 men.
Infantry (7 bns)
- Dronningens Livregiment (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Prins Carl (6 coys)
- Prins Christian (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Prins Georg (6 coys)
- Jyske (1 bn) (7 coys including a grenadier coy)
- Sjællandske (6 coys)
- Marine (5 coys)
Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Rodstens Dragoons (6 coys in 2 sqns)
- Juels Dragoons (6 coys in 2 sqns)
References
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Series 1, Vol. 4, Vienna 1876, pp. 42-43, 50, 67
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