1712 – Campaign in the Alps – Allied OOB January
From Project WSS
Jump to navigationJump to searchHierarchical Path: War of the Spanish Succession (Main Page) >> Campaigns >> 1712 – Campaign in the Alps >> Order of battle of the Allied army in January 1712
Description
Order of battle of the Allied army stationed in Northern Italy at the beginning of 1712.
Commander-in-Chief: Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, seconded by Field Marshal Wirich Count Daun
- Infantry under FZM Count Thürheim
- Cavalry under G.d.C. Marchese Pietro Visconti
- Artillery under Colonel von Steinberg
Summary: 70 bns, 53 sqns and 30 field guns
Imperial troops
- Infantry (32 bns)
- Herberstein (3 bns)
- Daun (3 bns)
- Brandenburg-Bayreuth (3 bns)
- Württemberg-Stuttgart (3 bns)
- Max Starhemberg 3 bns)
- Imperial Königsegg (3 bns)
- Imperial Regal (3 bns)
- Imperial Zum Jungen (3 bns)
- Imperial Harrach (3 bns)
- Wachtendonk (3 bns) probably Virmond Infantry
- Hayduck Gyulai (2 bns)
- Cavalry (22 sqns)
- Visconti Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Martigny Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Browne de Hautois Cuirassiers (6 sqns)
- Ebergényi Hussars (4 sqns)
- Artillery (20 guns)
Prussian troops
- Infantry (11 bns)
- Prinz von Oranien (2 bns)
- Markgraf Heinrich (2 bns)
- Graf Waldburg (1 bn) unidentified unit
- Anhalt (2 bns)
- Markgraf Christian Ludwig (2 bns)
- Holstein (1 bn)
- Dohna (1 bn) Jung or Alt Dohna?
Sachsen-Gotha troops
- Infantry (2 bns)
- Prinz Georg Wilhelm (1 bn)
- Prinz Friedrich (1 bn)
- Cavalry (4 sqns)
- Prinz August vonnSachsen (2 sqns)
- Grävendorff (2 sqns)
Savoyard troops
- Infantry (25 bns)
- Guardie (2 bns)
- Savoia (3 bns
- Monferrato (2 bns)
- Piemonte (2 bns)
- Fucilieri (2 bns)
- Saluzzo (2 bns)
- Nizza (2 bns)
- German Schulembourg (2 bns)
- Maffei Milizia (1 bn)
- Trinità Milizia (1 bn)
- French (deserters) Desportes (2 bns)
- Swiss Hackbrett (3 bns)
- Rehbinder (1 bn) unidentified unit
- Cavalry (27 sqns)
- Guardie del Corpo (2 sqns)
- Savoia Cavalleria (5 sqns)
- Piemonte Reale Cavalleria (5 sqns) aka Cavaglià
- Dragoni di Sua Altezza Reale (5 sqns)
- Dragoni di Genevois (5 sqns)
- Dragoni di Piemonte (5 sqns)
- Artillery (10 guns)
References
Eberswald, H. Edler von: Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1712 II. Serie, V. file, Vienna 1889
Acknowledgement
Harald Skala for the compilation of the order of battle
