1758 - Allied campaign in West Germany - Allied Army OOB June
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Contents
Introduction
This text is a reproduction of tables published by Christian Rogge in "The French & Allied Armies in Germany during the Seven Years War"
Description
Allied order of battle at Rheinberg - June 12
Commander-in-chief: Ferdinand of Brunswick
Summary: 32 battalions (including one grenadier battalion) and 51 squadrons
- First Column under Ferdinand of Brunswick assisted by lieutenant-generals Erbprinz, Oberg and Wutginau, advancing towards Saalhof
- First Vanguard (560 men)
- Hussars (100 men)
- Infantry (2 piquets of 150 men each)
- Cavalry (2 piquets of 80 men each)
- Second Vanguard under major-general von Fürstenberg (5 bns)
- Right Wing
- Hessian Leib-Grenadiers (1 bn) maybe the Grenadier-Regiment
- Hessian Fürstenberg (1 bn)
- Centre under major Scharnhorst
- Converged Grenadier Battalion (1 bn of 800 men)
- Left Wing
- Brunswick Leib-Regiment (2 bns)
- Right Wing
- Main body (22 sqns and 16 bns) unspecified units
- Artillery unspecified number of pieces
- First Vanguard (560 men)
- Second Column under lieutenant-general von Spörcken, advancing towards the Leucht height to the south of Alpen
- First Vanguard (200 volunteers)
- Second Vanguard under colonel Linstrow
- Converged Grenadiers (8 coys for a total of 400 men) under major Stockhausen
- Linstrow (1 bn)
- Main Body (7 bns)
- general von Spörcken's Brigade (3 bns)
- major-general von Hardenberg (4 bns)
- Cavalry under major-general von Zepelin and major-general von Grothaus
- Dachenhausen Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Reden (2 sqns)
- Breidenbach (2 sqns)
- major-general von Urff's Hessian Brigade
- Miltitz (2 sqns)
- Prinz Wilhelm (2 sqns)
- Leib-Regiment (2 sqns)
- Artillery (7 pieces)
- 4 x 12-pdrs guns
- 3 mortars
- Third Column under lieutenant-general prince von Holstein
- Major-general von Gilsa Brigade (3 bns)
- Hanoverian Spörcken (1 bn)
- Hessian Garde (1 bn)
- Hessian Prinz Karl (1 bn)
- Major-general von Brandemer Prussian Cavalry (15 sqns)
- Holstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Ruesch Hussars (3 sqns)
- Malachowski Hussars (2 sqns)
- Artillery (none)
- Major-general von Gilsa Brigade (3 bns)
References
Rogge, Christian, The French & Allied Armies in Germany during the Seven Years War, Frankfurt, 2006
