1759 - Swedish campaign in Pomerania – Dohna’s Prussian Army OOB mid-April
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Description
Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General von Manteuffel, as interim commander during the illness of Lieutenant-General zu Dohna
By mid-April 1759, the Prussian army of Lieutenant-General zu Dohna in Pomerania counted 26 bns, 35 sqns, for a total of 23,100 men and 750 artillerymen with 56 field pieces.
Infantry (26 bns)
- Burgsdorff Grenadiers (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Lossow (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Nesse (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Petersdorff (1 bn), Sirthin from April 17, Beyer from May 29
- Grenadier Battalion Tann (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Willemey (1 bn)
- Braunschweig-Bevern Infantry (2 bns)
- Graf zu Dohna Infantry (2 bns)
- Kanitz Infantry (2 bns)
- Kleist Infantry (2 bns)
- Lehwaldt Infantry (2 bns)
- Prinz Moritz Infantry (2 bns)
- Tresckow Infantry (2 bns)
- Gabelentz Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Diericke Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Frei-Infanterie von Hordt (2 bns)
Cavalry (35 sqns)
- Schorlemmer Dragoons (10 sqns)
- Alt-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Plettenberg Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Malachowski Hussars (8 sqns)
- Ruesch Hussars (7 sqns)
- Bosniak Lancers (40 men) belonging to Ruesch Hussars
Field Artillery (750 men) serving the field artillery pieces and the battalion guns
- Field Artillery (56 pieces)
- 19 x “Austrian style” 12 pdr-guns
- 18 x light 12-pdr guns
- 1 x 24-pdr gun
- 15 x 7-pdr howitzers
- 1 x 10-pdr howitzer
- 2 x 18-pdr howitzers
- Battalion Guns (52 pieces)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 9 Bergen, Berlin, 1911, Anlage 2 and p. 40,
