1761 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia – Prussian OOB August

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Description

Order of battle of the Prussian army under the command of King Frederick II of Prussia encamped in the entrenched camp of Bunzelwitz (present-day Bolesławice) near Schweidnitz in Lower Silesia in August 1761.

• General Zieten commanded the cavalry
• General Margrave Karl commanded the infantry

First Line	Second Line	Third Line
Cavalry Right Wing
Lieutenant-General Platen's Division Major-General Schwerin's Brigade Garde du Corps (3 sqns) Gens d'Armes (5 sqns) Major-General Löthöffel's Brigade Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Horn Cuirassiers (5 sqns)	Major-General Lentulus's Brigade Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns) Finckenstein Dragoons (5 sqns) Major-General Pomeiske's Brigade Pomeiske Dragoons (5 sqns)	Major-General Zastrow's Brigade Zastrow Dragoons (5 sqns)
Infantry Centre
Lieutenant-General Treskow's Division Major-General Schenckendorff's Brigade Grenadier Battalion Hacke (1 bn) Lindstedt (2 bns) von Forcade de Biaix (2 bns) Major-General Saldern's Brigade Alt-Braunschweig (2 bns) Markgraf Carl (2 bns) Major-General Zieten's Brigade Jung Braunschweig Fusiliers (2 bns) Gabelentz Fusiliers (2 bn) Lieutenant-General Wied's Division Major-General Braun's Brigade Prinz Ferdinand von Preußen (2 bns) Thadden (2 bns) von Lestwitz (2 bns) Major-General Knoblauch's Brigade Zieten Fusiliers (2 bns) Prinz Moritz von Anhalt (2 bns) Thile (2 bns) Grenadier Battalion Nimschöfsky (1 bn)	Major-General Gablenz's Brigade Grenadier Battalion Falkenhayn (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion Schwartz (1 bn) Ramin (2 bns) Major-General Zeuner's Brigade Schenckendorff (2 bns) Wied Fusiliers (2 bns) Major-General Wangenheim's Brigade Markgraf von Brandenburg Fusiliers (2 bns) Braun Fusiliers (2 bns) Major-General Thiele's Brigade Knobloch (2 bns) should be Mosel in 1761 Finck (2 bns) Major-General Prince von Bernburg's Brigade Grenadier Battalion Hachenberg (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion Arnim (1 bn) Anhalt-Bernburg (3 bns)	Major-General Ramin's Brigade Zeuner (2 bns) Syburg (2 bns) Major-General Möllendorff's Brigade Prinz von Preußen (2 bns) Garde (2 bns) Saldern (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion Anhalt (1 bn) Major-General Lottum's Brigade Prinz Heinrich von Preußen Fusiliers (2 bns) Grenadier Battalion Rothenburg (1 bn) Grenadier Battalion Görne (1 bn)
Cavalry Left Wing
Lieutenant-General Platen's Division Major-General Flans' Brigade Bredow Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Vasold Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Major-General Schmettau's Brigade Spaen Cuirassiers (5 sqns) Unidentified Heinrich Cavalry (5 sqns)	Major-General Bülow's Brigade Alt-Platen Dragoons (5 sqns) Bayreuth Dragoons (10 sqns)	Major-General Platen's Brigade Flanß Dragoons (5 sqns)

Reserve

• Zieten Hussars (10 sqns)
• Möhring Hussars (10 sqns)
• Unidentified Mosel Freikorps (1 bn)
• Frei-Infanterie von Wunsch (1 bn)
• Frei-Infanterie de Salenmon (1 bn)
• Feldjäger zu Fuß von Aweyde (4 coys)
• Malachowski Hussars (8 sqns)
• Ruesch Hussars (7 sqns)
• Bosniaken (1 sqn)
• Unidentified garrison unit Siegroth from Schweidnitz (1 bn)

References

Tielke, Johann Gottlieb: Beyträge zur Kriegs-Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1765 bis 1763: mit Plans und Charten, 2nd edition, Freyberg, 1776, [24], 130 s., I. V