1758 - Prussian invasion of Moravia – Austrian OOB April 20

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Description

By April 20 1758, the Austrian Army operating in Moravia was deployed as follows:

Commander-in-Chief: Feldmarshall Count Leopold Daun

Chief of Artillery: FZM Baron Feuerstein

Right Wing Cavalry under G.d.K. Count O'Donell

• Erzherzog Leopold Cuirassiers
• Stampach Cuirassiers
• Kolowrat-Krakowski Dragoons
• O'Donell Cuirassiers
• Kalckreuth Cuirassiers
• Benedikt Daun Dragoons

Right Wing Infantry: FZM Count Harsch

• First Line
  • Kaiser
  • Carl Lothringen (Duke)
  • Waldeck
  • Leopold Daun
  • Andlau
  • Haller
  • Bethlen
  • Deutschmeister
  • Browne
• Second Line
  • Harrach
  • Los Rios
  • Botta
  • Pallavicini
  • Luzzara
  • Clerici
  • Baden-Durlach
  • Arenberg
  • Nikolaus Esterházy
  • de Ligne
  • d'Arberg
  • Sachsen-Gotha

Left Wing Infantry under G.d.K. Baron Buccow

• First Line
  • Erzherzog Carl
  • Hildburghausen
  • Moltke
  • Baden-Baden
  • Kheul
• Second Line
  • Heinrich Daun
  • Gaisruck
  • Mercy-Argenteau
  • Thürheim
  • Joseph Esterházy
• Attached Cavalry under Major-General Bettoni
  • Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld Dragoons
  • Anspach Cuirassiers
  • Buccow Cuirassiers
  • Dessewffy Hussars
  • Kálnoky Hussars
  • Kaiser Franz I Hussars
• Grenzer Light Troops
  • Slavonier Grenzers ???
  • Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment ?No. 1 or No. 2?
  • Karlstädter-Lykaner
  • Warasdiner ???

Left Wing Cavalry under under G.d.K. Count O'Donell

• Batthyányi Dragoons
• Erzherzog Ferdinand Cuirassiers
• Schmerzing Cuirassiers
• Gelhay Cuirassiers

Reserve Corps under FZM Duke von Arenberg

• Infantry
  • Puebla
  • Jung-Wolfenbüttel
  • Forgách
  • Leopold Pálffy
  • Mainz
  • Batthyányi
  • Wallis
  • Bayreuth
• Cavalry
  • Erzherzog Joseph Dragoons
  • Löwenstein Dragoons
  • Serbelloni Cuirassiers
  • Anhalt-Zerbst Cuirassiers

Also attached to the main army

• Croatian Banderialisten
• Slavonisches Grenz-Hussars

Corps of Major-General Jahnus

• Infantry
  • Königsegg
  • Alt-Wolfenbüttel (Duke-)
• Cavalry
  • Sachsen-Gotha Dragoons
  • Morocz Hussars
• Grenzer Light Troops (approx. 3,000 men)
  • Slavonisch-Brooder
  • Slavonisch-Gradiskaner
  • Slavonisch-Peterwardeiner
  • Warasdiner-Sankt Georger

Corps of Major-General Count Colloredo

• Infantry
  • Neipperg
  • Harsch
• Cavalry
  • Paul Anton Esterházy Hussars
• Grenzer Light Troops
  • Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment ?No. 1 or No. 2?
  • Banater
  • Temesvar and Banalisten Grenz-Hussars

Corps of Major-General Baron von Loudon

• Infantry
  • Kolowrat
  • Starhemberg
• Cavalry
  • Nádasdy Hussars
• Grenzer Light Troops (approx. 2,400 men)
  • Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment ?No. 1 or No. 2?
  • Croatian Banderialisten

Corps of FML de Ville

• Infantry
  • Simbschen
  • I./Preysach
  • unidentified Bavarian battalions (3 bns)
  • unidentified Warasdiner Grenzer (2 bns)
• Cavalry
  • Birkenfeld Cuirassiers
  • Herzog Württemberg Dragoons
  • Hessen-Darmstadt Dragoons
  • Jung-Modena Dragoons
  • Saxon Prinz Karl Chevauxlegers
  • Saxon Prinz Albrecht Chevauxlegers
  • Saxon Graf Brühl Chevauxlegers
  • Saxon Karabiniergarde
  • Nagy-Károly Hussars
  • Karlstädter Grenz-Hussars (400 men)
  • Saxon Graf Renard Uhlanen
    
  • Saxon Graf Rudnicki Uhlanen

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 7 Olmütz und Krefeld, Berlin, 1901, p. 68, Anlage 5