1758 - Russian invasion of Brandenburg – Rumyantsev’s Russian Corps OOB August 15

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Description

Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev

By August 15, 1758, the Russian corps under the command of Lieutenant-General Rumyantsev consisted of 16 bns, 20 sqns, and 950 Cossacks for a total of 11,000 men with 11 field pieces and 47 regimental pieces.

Infantry (16 bns for a total of 7,880 men with 38 regimental pieces, including 6 secret howitzers)

• Apsheronskiy (2 bns)
• Kievskiy (2 bns)
• 2nd Moskovskiy (2 bns)
• Nizovskiy (2 bns)
• Pskovskiy (2 bns)
• Vyatskiy (2 bns)
• Vologodskiy (2 bns)
• Vyborgskiy (2 bns)

Cavalry (20 sqns for a total of 2,000 men with 9 regimental pieces)

• Kievskiy Cuirassiers (3 sqns)
• Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
• Ryazanskiy (3 sqns)
• Rizhskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
• Nizhegorodskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
• Vengerskiy Hussars (5 sqns)

Don Cossacks (950 men)

Artillery (11 heavy pieces)

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 8 Zorndorf und Hochkirch, Berlin, 1910, Anhang 23