1759 - Allied spring offensive in Western Germany – Ferdinand OOB April 10
Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Campaigns >> 1759 - Allied spring offensive in Western Germany >> Ferdinand OoB on April 10 1759
Description
Detailed order of battle of Ferdinand of Brunswick' Army during the offensive against the French Army of the Main between April 10 and 13, 1759.
Summary: 27 bns, 40 sqns. 13 light troop coys, 21 heavy artillery pieces and 46 battalion guns for a total of approx. 24,000 men
Commander-in-Chief: Field Marshal Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick
Vanguard under Lieutenant-General Hereditary Prince of Brunswick
Infantry (11 bns)
- Brunswicker Leib-Regiment (2 bns)
- Brunswicker Behr (2 bns)
- Brunswicker Imfoff (2 bns)
- Brunswicker I./Zastrow (1 bn)
- Hessian Prinz Anhalt (1 bn)
- Hessian Mansbach (1 bn)
- Brunswicker Converged Grenadier Battalion Dehn (1 bn)
- Brunswicker Converged Grenadier Battalion Cramm (1 bn)
Cavalry (11 sqns)
- British Royal Horse Guards (aka The Blues) (3 sqns)
- British 2nd Royal North British Dragoons (aka Scots Greys) (2 sqns)
- British 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (2 sqns)
- Hessian Leib-Dragoner (4 sqns)
Hussars (2 sqns)
- Prussian Ruesch Hussars (2 sqns)
Light troops (9 coys)
- Hanoverian Freytag Jägers (6 foot coys and 3 mounted coys)
Artillery (10 heavy pieces)
- 4 x 6-pdr guns
- 3 x 12-pdr guns
- 3 x howitzers
Right Column under Lieutenant-General Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Infantry (6 bns)
- Hessian Garde (1 bn)
- Hessian Grenadier-Regiment (1 bn)
- Hessian Leib-Regiment (1 bn)
- Hessian Erbprinz (1 bn)
- Hessian Gilsa (1 bn)
- Hessian Converged Grenadier Battalion Faust]] (1 bn)
Cavalry (10 sqns)
- Prussian Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Prussian Holstein Dragoons (5 sqns)
Hussars (1 sqn)
- Prussian Ruesch Hussars (1 sqn)
Light Troops (4 coys)
- Hessian Jägers (4 coys)
Left Column under Lieutenant-General Prinz zu Ysenburg
Infantry (10 bns)
- Hanoverian Linstrow (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Post (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Fersen (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Marschalk (1 bn)
- Hanoverian Wrede (1 bn)
- Hessian Hessen-Hanau (1 bn)
- Hessian Prinz Ysenburg (1 bn)
- Hessian Canitz (1 bn)
- Hessian Prinz Karl (1 bn)
- Hessian Converged Grenadier Battalion Mirbach (1 bn)
Cavalry (16 sqns)
- Hanoverian Hammerstein Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hanoverian Dachenhausen Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Hessian Leib-Regiment (2 sqns)
- Hessian Pruschenk Cavalry (2 sqns)
- Hessian Prinz Wilhelm (2 sqns)
- Hessian Prinz Friedrich Dragoons (4 sqns)
Artillery (11 heavy pieces)
- 11 x 12-pdr guns
- 3 x howitzers
- Pontoon Train
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 9 Bergen, Berlin, 1911, Anlage 5
