Order of battle

 

Of the Austrian army in Switzerland,

 

4 June 1799

 

(First day of the First battle of Zurich)

 

 

Composed by Roland Kessinger, source given below

 

IR = Infanterie Regiment

 

 

 

Commander-in-Chief: Archduke Charles

 

LEFT WING (FML Hotze)

GM Jellachich

IR No. 21 “Gemmingen” (1 battalion)

IR No. 49 “Kerpen” (1 battalion)

IR No. 50 “Stain” (3 battalions)

“Modena” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 5 (1 squadron)

“Waldeck” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 7 (2 squadrons)

FML Petrasch

Colonel Plunket

9th Peterwardein Regiment Grenzer (III. Battalion)

9th Peterwardein Regiment Grenzer (IV. Battalion)

IR No. 60 (2 battalions)

GM Kempf

Grenadier companies of IR No. 25 “Brechainville” (2 companies)

IR No. 41 “Bender” (3 battalions)

Colonel Grünne

“Erzherzog Ferdinand” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 2 (6 squadrons)

“Coburg” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 6 (4 squadrons)

“Waldeck” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 7 (2 squadrons)

FML Joseph Lothringen

GM Bey

IR No. 1 “Kaiser” (2 battalions)

IR No. 21 “Gemmingen” (2 battalions)

“Waldeck” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 7 (2 squadrons)

Uhlan Regiment No. 1 or 2 (1 squadron)

GM O’Reilly

9th Peterwardein Regiment Grenzer (I. Battalion)

IR No. 20 “Kaunitz” (3 battalions)

“Coburg” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 6 (2 squadrons)

Croat-Slavonian Hussar Regiment No. 12 (2 squadrons)

 

CENTRE (FZM O. Wallis)

FML Reuss

GM Rosenberg

1st “Strozzi” Light Battalion (6 companies)

IR No. 35 “Wenkheim” (3 battalions)

Croat-Slavonian Hussar Regiment No. 12 (2 squadrons)

GM Lindenau

IR No. 3 “Erzherzog Karl” (3 battalions)

IR No. 29 “O. Wallis” (3 battalions)

FML Anhalt-Köthen

GM Hiller

6 Grenadier Battalions, most probable:

Grenadier Battalion "Tegethoff" (20/22/29)

Grenadier Battalion "Bojakowsky" (1/7/12)

Grenadier Battalion "Teschner" (3/35/50)

Grenadier Battalion "Lippe" (2/31/60)

Grenadier Battalion "Sebottendorf" (41/49/56)

Grenadier Battalion "Juch" (21/42/54)

GM Sebottendorf

IR No. 2 “Erzherzog Ferdinand” (2 battalions)

GM Hessen-Homburg

“Latour” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 11 (6 squadrons)

“Kinsky” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 12 (6 squadrons)

“Zeschwitz” Kurassier Regiment No. 5 (4 squadrons)

FML Riesch

GM Hohenlohe

“Nassau” Kurassier Regiment No. 9 (6 squadrons)

“Mack” Kurassier Regiment No. 10 (6 squadrons)

 

RIGHT WING (FML Nauendorf)

GM Kienmayer

Tyrolean Jäger (4 companies)

Grenz Sharpshooters (4 companies)

12th “Rubinitz” Light Battalion (6 companies)

12th Deutsch-Banat Regiment Grenzer (1 battalion)

Meszaros Hussar Regiment No. 10 (8 squadrons)

Uhlan Regiment No. 1 or 2 (1 squadron)

GM Simbchen

IR No. 2 “Erzherzog Ferdinand” (1 battalion)

IR No. 12 “Manfredini” (3 battalions)

IR No. 54 “Callenberg” (2 2/3 battalions)

FML L. Baillet-Latour

GM Mylius

IR No. 7 “C. Schroeder” (3 battalions)

IR No. 22 “Lacy” (3 battalions)

 

 

 

Main source: Erzherzog Karl (Archduke Charles), Geschichte des Feldzuges 1799 in Deutschland und in der Schweiz, 1. Teil, Wien 1819, pp. 216-217

 

© Roland Kessinger & Geert van Uythoven