1760 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia – Prussian OoB mid January
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Description
In mid-January 1760, the Prussian forces stationed in Upper Silesia where subdivided in several detachments.
In the vicinity of Löwenberg under General of Infantry Fouqué
Infantry 6 bns
- Grenadier Battalion 24/34 Naumeister (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion G-V/G-X Rath (1 bn)
- Fouqué Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Ramin Infantry (2 bns)
Cavalry (8 sqns)
- Bayreuth Dragoons (5 sqns)
- Werner Hussars (3 sqns)
In Upper Silesia under Major-General von der Goltz
Infantry (5 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion G-NG/G-III/G-IV Carlowitz (1 bn)
- Manteuffel Infantry (2 bns)
- II./Mosel Infantry (1 bn) from Neisse
- Garrison Regiment Jung-Sydow (1 bn) from Cosel
Cavalry (7 sqns)
- Bayreuth Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Werner Hussars (4 sqns)
Along the border of Upper Silesia near Landeshut and Hirschberg under Major-General von Schenckendorf
- in and around Landeshut (9 bns, 8 sqns)
- Grenadier Battalion 45/G-XIII/G-IX Unruh (1 bn)
- Prinz Heinrich Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Bülow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Braun Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Bredow Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Queiss Infantry (2 bns)
- Freibataillon de Angelelli (1 bn)
- Freibataillon Lüderitz (1 bn)
- Alt-Platen Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Malachowski Hussars (5 sqns)
- in Hirschberg
- IMarkgraf Friedrich Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Bredow Fusiliers (a detachment of 300 men)
- IV./Garrison Regiment No. VI Lattorf (1 bn)
- Alt-Platen Dragoons (1 sqn)
- Malachowski Hussars (40 men)
Near Görlitz under Major-General von Schmettau
Infantry (13 bns)
- Grenadier Battalion Buddenbrock (1 bn)
- Grenadier Battalion Tann-Busche (1 bn)
- Jung-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
- Jung-Braunschweig-Bevern Fusiliers (2 bns)
- Alt-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
- Kalckstein Infantry (2 bns)
- IMarkgraf Friedrich Fusiliers (1 bn)
- Volunteers (1 bn) under Major von Bietinghoff
- Freibataillon Le Noble (1 bn)
Cavalry (25 sqns)
- Spaen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Schlabrendorff Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- Alt-Platen Dragoons (1 sqn)
- Dingelstedt (10 sqns)
- Werner Hussars (2 sqns)
- Malachowski Hussars (2 sqns)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 11 Minden und Maxen, Berlin, 1912, p. 231, 238-239