Battle of Chotusitz:
May 17, 1742

Order of Battle

By Jim Purky


PRUSSIAN FORCES

Right Wing Cavalry (Buddenbrock)
CR1 Buddenbrock Cuirassiers 5 sqds.
CR9 Mollendorf Curaissiers 5 sqds.
CR4 Gessler Cuirassiers 5 sqds.
DR3 Rothenburg Dragoons 5 sqds.
CR8 Jung Waldow Cuirassiers 5 sqds.
DR5 Bayreuth Dragoons 5 sqds.
HR1 Bronikowsky Hussars 5 sqds.

First Line of Battle-Right Wing (Kalkstein)
IR7 Bevern 2 btns
Itzenplitz Grenadiers (8/24) Ibtn..
IR30 Jeetze 2 btns
Uchlander Grenadiers (7/19) Ibtn.
IR 10 Anhalt-Dessau 2 btns.
Geist Grenadiers (5/20) 1 btn.
IR2 Roeder 2 btns.
Jeetze Grenadiers (12/17) 1 btn.
Kanitz Grenadiers (11/14) 1 btn.

Second Line of Battle (Frederick II)
IR34 Prinz Ferdinand 2 btns
IR14 Lehwaldt 2 btns
IR4 Groeben 2 btns
IR15 Regt of Guards 2 btns
IR16 Flanss 2 btns

Left Wing Infantry (Jeetze)
IR27 Prinz Leopold 2 btns
IR29 Jung Borcke 2 btns
IR17 La Motte Fouque 2 btns
IR11 Holstein-Beck 1 btn.
IR24 Alt-Schwerin 2 btns

Left Wing Cavalry (von Waldow)
CR7 Bredow Cuirassiers 5 sqds
DR5 Bayreuth Dragoons 5 sqds
CR12 Alt-Waldow Cuirassiers 5 sqds
DR7 Werdeck Dragoons 10 sqds
CR2 Prinz Wilhelm Cuirassiers 5 sqds
HR1 Bronikowsky Hussars 5 sqds

AUSTRIAN FORCES

Right Wing Cavalry (Liechtenstein)
DR1 Althann Dragoons 5 sqds
CR4 Hohen-embs Cuirassiers 5 sqds
DR19 D'Ollone Dragoons 5 sqds
Bathyany Hussars 5 sqds
CR29 Lubomirsky Cuirassiers 5 sqds

First Line of Battle (Thungen)

Daun's Brigade:

    IR1 Franz Lothringen 2 btns.
    IR35 Waldeck 3 btns.
    IR59 Leopold Daun 3 btns.

Gaisruck's Brigade:

    IR26 Grunne 3 btns
    IR 13 Moltke 3 btns
    IR3 Karl Lothringen 2 btns

Second Line of Battle

Konigsegg's Brigade:

    IR47 Harrach 3 btns.
    IR16 Konigsegg 3 btns.
    IR18 Marschall 3 btns

Mercy's Brigade:

    IR19 Palffy 3 btns
    IR34 Vettes 2 btns
    IR57 Thungen 3 btns

Left Wing Cavalry (Hohen-embs)

First Line (Bathyany):
Assorted Hussars 400 men
Warasdiner Croats 3btns.
CR8 Palffy Cuirassiers 5 sqds.
CR23 Birkenfeld Cuirassiers 5 sqds.

Second Line (Hohen-embs):
DR6 Liechtenstein Dragoons 5 sqds
DR38 Wurttemburg Dragoons 5 sqds
CR111 Podstatzky Cuirassiers 5 sqds

Third Line (St. Ignon):
DR37 Philibert Dragoons 5 sqds.
CR33 Diemar Cuirassiers 5 sqds.


Battle of Chotusitz May 17, 1742


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