1757 - Prussian invasion of Bohemia – Prussian OOB May 11 – Bevern

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Description

Detailed order of battle of Bevern's Prussian Corps on May 11 1757.

Summary: 7,100 foot in 10 bns (approx.), 11,600 cavalrymen and hussars in 85 sqns and 13 heavy pieces.

Commander: August Wilhelm Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern

Infantry (10 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion Finck and Grenadier Battalion Waldau (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Wangenheim (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Manteuffel (1 bn)
• Zastrow Infantry (2 bns) would be renamed Bornstedt on May 16
• Kreytzen Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Manteuffel Infantry (2 bns)
• II./Wied Fusiliers

Cavalry (85 sqns)

• Leibregiment zu Pferde (5 sqns)
• Baron von Schönaich Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Driesen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Krockow Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Baron von Kyau Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Stechow Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Meinicke Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Blanckensee Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Zieten Hussars (10 sqns)
• Wartenberg Hussars (10 sqns)
• Puttkamer Hussars (10 sqns)
• Werner Hussars (10 sqns)

Bevern's Corps gradually received reinforcements from Frederick's main army:

• on May 12: Grenadier Battalion Gemmingen (1 bn)
• on May 15: II./Anhalt Infantry (1 bn)
• on May 16: II./Prinz Heinrich von Preußen Fusiliers (1 bn)
• on May 21: Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
• on May 22: I./Prinz Heinrich von Preußen Fusiliers (1 bn)
• on May 23: Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky (1 bn)
• on June 2:
  • I./Wied Fusiliers (1 bn)
  • I./Münchow Fusiliers (1 bn)
• on June 3: II./Münchow Fusiliers (1 bn)

By June 4, with these reinforcements, Bevern's Corps counted 18 bns and 90 sqns.

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 3 Kolin, Berlin, 1901, Anhang 8