Austria's Light Infantry

Chart of Battalions

By Dave Hollins
with new illustrations by John Cook


Batt.Commanding ColonelFacingsButtons
1.StrozziCrab RedYellow
2.Carl RohanCrab RedWhite
3.Am Ende/1800 Bach/WatletBrick redWhite
4.Bach/1800 Am Ende/OttoBrick redWhite
5.P. RadivojevichOrange-YellowYellow
6.TrautenborgOrange-YellowWhite
7.Otto/1800 SchmetzernSteel GreenYellow
8.Intended as regularised Wurmser Freikorps, but never created
9.Greth/1800 SiegenfeldCarmineYellow
10.Siegenfeld/1800 GrethDark BlueWhite
11.F. Carneville Dark BlueYellow
12.Rubenitz/1800 SteigenteschSteel GreenWhite
13.Munkacsy/1801 ZechmeisterSulphur YellowYellow
14.Louis Rohan/1801 ReichensteinBlackWhite
15.MihailovichBlackYellow

THE ASSORTED NATIONALITIES OF THESE BATTALIONS ARE APPARENT FROM THE FOLLOWING:

Batt.Original UnitNationalityRecruiting
Area
End Unit
1.O'Donnel FreikorpsGalicianGaliciaIR63 & 6 (2nd Garrison)
2.Bourbon, 1 co. each from:
Rohan and Erz. Karl Legions
French/WalloonVenetiaIR63
3.Grun-LaudonWalloonVenetiaIR44
4.Grun-LaudonWalloonVenetiaIR13
5.Serb FreikorpsSerbSerbs north of the
Military Frontier
IRs2,31,32,33,53,60
6.Gyulai FreikorpsCroatCroatia/HungaryIRs33,60 & 12th Grenz
7.Gyulai FreikorpsCroatCroatia/HungaryIRs34,39,48
8.(Non-existent)
9.Gyulai FreikorpsCroatCroatia/HungaryIR48
10.Gyulai FreicorpsCroatVenetiaIRs48,39 & 1st Garrison
11.2 cos from Carneville, Luttich
and Anhalt-Zerbst Inf. and German
French/WalloonVenetiaIR63
12.O'Donnel FreikorpsGalicianGaliciaIR38 and 2nd Garrison
13.Gyulai FreikorpsCroatCroatia/Hungary IR52
14.Bourbon: 1 co each from
Rohan and Erz. Karl Legions
French WalloonVenetiaIR63
15.Serb FreikorpsSerbCroatia Slavonia
Lower Hungary
IR53

Austrian Light Infantry 1799-1801 by Dave Hollins


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