1757 - Austrian invasion of Silesia – Prussian OOB December 7
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Description
Detailed order of battle of the Prussian field armies (a total of 48½ bns and 133 sqns) in Silesia on December 7.
Note: the 5 sqns of the II./Szekely Hussars are absent from this list.
Zieten's Army
Commander-in-chief: Hans Joachim von Lieutenant-General Zieten
Summary: 11½ bns, 78 sqns
Infantry (11½ bns)
- Grenadier Battalion Manteuffel (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Wedell (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Ramin (1 bn)
- Asseburg Infantry (1 bn)
- Bornstedt Infantry (1 bn)
- Meyerinck Infantry (2 bns)
- Itzenplitz Infantry (2 bns)
- Feldjäger zu Fuß (½ bn)
- Freibataillon Angelelli (1 bn)
- Freibataillon Kalben (1 bn)
Cavalry (78 sqns)
- Herzog von Württemberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Jung-Krockow Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Stechow Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Zieten Hussars (10 sqns)
- Werner Hussars (8 sqns)
- Puttkamer Hussars (10 sqns)
- Warnery Hussars (6 sqns)
- I./Szekely Hussars (5 sqns)
- Seydlitz Hussars (4 sqns)
- Markgraf Friedrich von Bayreuth Dragoons (10 sqns) detached from Frederick’s Army on December 8
Frederick’s Army
Commander-in-chief: King Frederick II
Summary: 34 bns, 53 sqns
Infantry (34 bns)
- Grenadier Garde Retzow (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Kremzow (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Hacke (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Schenkendorff (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Östenreich (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion von Plötz (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion von Kahlden (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Unruh (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Dieringshofen (1 bn)
- II./Garde (1 bn)
- III./Garde (1 bn)
- Margraf Carl (2 bns)
- Kannacher (2 bns)
- Pannwitz (2 bns)
- Geist (2 bns)
- Alt-Braunschweig (2 bns)
- Winterfeldt (2 bns)
- Kalckstein (2 bns)
- I./Münchow Fusilier (1 bn)
- I./Alt-Württemberg Fusilier (1 bn)
- I./Prinz Ferdinand (1 bn)
- I./Prinz Heinrich Fusilier (1 bn)
- I./Prinz von Preussen (1 bn)
- I./Jung-Braunschweig Fusilier (1 bn)
- I./Kurssell Fusilier (1 bn)
- Wied Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Garrison Regiment VII von Lattorf (1 bn)
Cavalry (53 sqns)
- Gardes du Corps (3 sqns)
- Gens d'armes (5 sqns)
- Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Baron von Schönaich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Prinz von Schönaich-Carolath Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Krockow Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Driesen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
- Baron von Kyau Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Geßler Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Prinz von Preußen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
Other detachments
Summary: 5 bns, 7 sqns
Guarding the bakery at Neumarkt (1 bn)
Guarding the Austrian prisoners at Lissa (3 bns, 5 sqns)
- Grenadier Battalion Kleist (1 bn)
- Forcade Infantry (2 bns)
- Margraf Friedrich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
Escorting Austrian prisoners to Neumarkt (1 bn)
- Frei-Infanterie le Noble (1 bn) rejoined Frederick’s Army on December 10
Sent to Glatz (2 sqns)
- Werner Hussars (2 sqns)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 6 Leuthen, Berlin, 1904, Anhang 21
