Bavarian Army
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Leibregiment zu Pferd (130 men)
Carabiniers (130 men)
Grenadiers à cheval (130 men)
Line Infantry
Each infantry regiment had 15 companies organised in 3 battalions of 700 men each for a theoretical strength of 2,100 men. However, a typical regiment usually fielded some 1,700 men.
Kurprinz (1,800 men)
Tattenbach (1,800 men)
Lützelburg (1,800 men)
Maffei (1,800 men)
Haxthausen (1,800 men)
Spielberg
Bettendorff returning from Catalonia
d'Ocfort aka Bockfort
Boismorel Grenadiers
Royal Bavière raised in 1706
N.B.: from 1705 only two of the old infantry regiments (Leibregiment and Kurprinz), which had accompanied the Elector to the Spanish Netherlands continued to exist, the others were disbanded in 1704/1705 as a result of the Treaty of Ilbesheim (7 November 1704). Another, the Royal-Bavière, was raised in 1706 in Italy from Bavarian prisoners of war and entered the French service,
Cavalry
Each cuirassier and dragoon regiment had 12 companies.
Arco Cuirassiers
Weickel Cuirassiers, 1706 Poth
Wolframsdorff Cuirassiers
La Tour Cuirassiers, 1702 Verita, 1703 Costa
Prinz Philipp Carabiniers, created in 1704
Monasterol Dragoons
Santini Dragoons
Fels Dragoons
Torring-Seefeld Dragoons
Locatelli Hussars
Artillery
Militia
The Electorate of Bavaria had 12 battalions of militia in 1701.
Reference
Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archives: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen
- Series 1, Vol. 3, Vienna 1876, App. 55
- Series 1, Vol. 4, Vienna 1877, pp. 61-62
- Series 1, Vol. 6, p. 627-647
Barfly, Basil: [http://wssbavarians.blogspot.com/2018/ Bavarians in the War of the Spanish Succession}
Cantler, D.: Einiges über die Uniformierung der bayrischen Armee, in: Mittheilungen zur Geschichte der militärischen Tracht, No.11, November 1895, p.44
La Colonie, Jean Martin de: The chronicles of an old campaigner; London 1904
Münich, Friedrich; Verfasser: Geschichte der Entwicklung der bayerischen Armee seit zwei Jahrhunderten, München 1864
Pelet and Vault: Mémoires militaires relatifs à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, Vol. 1 p. 470
Robl, Werner: Die Schlacht von Mallerstetten am 4. März 1703, Berching 2014
Staudinger, Karl: Das Königlich Bayerische 2. Infanterie-Regiment Kronprinz 1682 bis 1882. Erster Teil. München 1885
Vial, J.L.: Nec Pluribus Impar Liste des Troupes de Son Altesse Électorale Maximilien Emanuel de Bavière, avec les Milices régimentées et régulières en 1703
Wikipedia – German Edition – Liste der kurbayerischen Regimenter der Frühen Neuzeit
Acknowledgements
Jörg Meier for additional ionformation on this army
