1760 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia – Prussian OoB mid March

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Description

By mid-March, after Schmettau's return, the Prussian army posted in the vicinity of Lauban, Löwenberg, Greiffenberg and Hirschberg consisted of:

Infantry (23 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion Busche (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Buddenbrock (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Wobersnow (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Sobeck (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Koschenbahr (1 bn)
• Alt-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
• Ramin Infantry (2 bns)
• Jung-Stutterheim Infantry (2 bns)
• Jung-Braunschweig-Bevern Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Queiss Infantry (2 bns)
• Fouqué Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Markgraf Friedrich Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Volunteers (1 bn) under Major von Bietinghoff
• Freibataillon Le Noble (1 bn)
• I./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn) from Schweidnitz
• II./Garrison Regiment Mellin (1 bn) from Schweidnitz

Cavalry (29 sqns)

• Schlabrendorff Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Spaen Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Bayreuth Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Alt-Platen Dragoons (2 sqns)
• Dingelstedt (10 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (2 sqns)

Meanwhile, Major-General von Schenckendorff was posted near Landeshut with the following units:

Infantry (11 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion Unruh (1 bn)
• Braun Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Prinz Heinrich Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Bülow Fusiliers (2 bns)
• Zieten Fusiliers (2 bns)
• I./Garrison Regiment Alt-Sydow (1 bn) from Breslau
• Freibataillon de Angelelli (1 bn)

Cavalry (8 sqns)

• Alt-Platen Dragoons (3 sqns)
• Malachowski Hussars (5 sqns)

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 12 Landeshut und Liegnitz, Berlin, 1913, p. 49