L’Esercito dell’Elettorato di Sassonia della Guerra dei Sette Anni, 1756–1763

Following its surrender at Pirna, 15 October 1756, the army of the Electorate of Saxony went into Prussian captivity. Officers were dismissed, the NCOs promoted to officers, and entire regiments incorporated into the Prussian army, with the exception of the Leibgrenadier-Garde.

Infantry-Regiment Königin and Grenadier-Battalion Kurprinzessin refused to take the oath and were disbanded. Many soldiers of the remaining ten infantry regiments deserted en masse in the following months or went over to the enemy on the battlefield, so that by 1758 there was only one formerly Saxon infantry regiment on the establishment of the field army and two on the garrison establishment.

Many of the deserted Saxon soldiers made their way to Hungary via Bohemia and Poland, where a new Saxon army was being formed under the command of Lieutenant-General Franz Xavier prince of Saxony, count of Lusatia, from 1757. These troops received new regimental colours in March of 1758 and they took part in the campaigns of the combined French and Imperial Army along the Rhine.

Soldatini Disponibili

Austrian General Staff, 15 mm Old Glory SYA11
Granatieri Prussiani
Moschettieri Prussiani
Fucilieri Prussiani
Dragoni Prussiani
Corazzieri Prussiani
Ussari Austriaci
Artiglieria Prussiana

Stato Maggiore Esercito		dalle	alle
Feldmarschall Friedrich August Graf Rutowski		1756
Generallieutenant Prinz Xaver von Sachsen		1756	1763
Generalmajor Noe de Crousatz		1756	1763
Generalmajor Graf Nostitz		1756	1763
Feldjäger-Corps zu Fuß		1756	1763
Feldjäger-Corps zu Pferd		1756	1763
Fanteria	Proprietario	dalle	alle
Leibgrenadier-Garde	Kurfürst Friedrich August II. von Sachsen	1756	1763
Garde zu Fuß	Kurfürst Friedrich August II. von Sachsen	1751	1760
Infanterie-Regiment Königin Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Josef von Sachsen, 1757	Maria Josepha Kurfürstin von Sachsen, Königin von Polen	1756	1756
	Prinz Josef von Sachsen	1757	1763
Grenadier-Bataillon Kurprinzessin	Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Kurprinzessin von Sachsen	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Friedrich August von Sachsen	Prinz Friedrich August von Sachsen	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Xaver von Sachsen	Prinz Xaver von Sachsen	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Clemens von Sachsen	Prinz Clemens von Sachsen	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Graf Brühl	General Graf Brühl	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Fürst Lubomirski	Generalmajor Fürst Lubomirski	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment von Rochow	von Rochow	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment von Minckwitz Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Anton von Sachsen	von Minckwitz	1756	1759
	Prinz Anton von Sachsen	1759	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Adolph Johann von Sachsen-Gotha	Prinz Adolph Johann von Sachsen-Gotha	1756	1763
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Carl Maximilian von Sachsen	Prinz Carl Maximilian von Sachsen	1756	1763
Battaglioni di Granatieri, 1756	Parent Units
Grenadier-Bataillon Bennigsen	Garde zu Fuß & Infanterie-Regiment Graf Brühl
Grenadier-Bataillon Kavanagh	Prinz Friedrich August & Lubomirski
Grenadier-Bataillon von de Pforte	Prinz Xaver & Prinz von Sachsen-Gotha
Grenadier-Bataillon von Götze	Prinz Maximilian & Minckwitz
Grenadier-Bataillon von Milckau	Königin & Infanterie-Regiment von Rochow
Grenadier-Bataillon von Pfundheller	Prinz Clemens & Leibgrenadier-Garde
Cavalleria	Proprietario	dalle	alle
Regiment Garde du Corps
Karabiniergarde
Leibkürassiere
Königl. Prinz-Kürassiere
Kürassier-Regiment von Arnim
Kürassier-Regiment Fürst Anhalt
Kürassier-Regiment von Plötz
Kürassier-Regiment von Vitzthum
Chevauleger-Regiment Graf Brühl
Chevauleger-Regiment Prinz Karl		1756	1763
Chevauleger-Regiment Prinz Albrecht
Chevauleger-Regiment Graf Rutowski
Ulanen Pulk Wilczewski
Ulanen Pulk Rudnicki
Ulanen Pulk Bronikowsky
Husaren-Eskadron von Schill	Rittmeister Johann Georg von Schill	1761	1763
Contingente della Circolo dell’Alta Sassonia	Proprietario	dalle	alle
1. Kreis-Regiment		1733	1756
2. Kreis-Regiment		1733	1756
3. Kreis-Regiment		1733	1756
4. Kreis-Regiment		1733	1756
Truppe di Guarnigione & Milizia	Comandante	dalle	alle
Invalidencorps Garnisonskompanie Königstein
Invalidencorps Garnisonskompanie Pleißenburg
Invalidencorps Garnisonskompanie Sonnenstein
Invalidencorps Garnisonskompanie Stolpen
Invalidencorps Garnisonskompanie Wittenberg
Invalidenkompanie Waldheim
Henneberg Miliz		1730	1756
Artiglieria & Genio Militare	Comandante	dalle	alle
Artillerie-Bataillon		1756	1763
Artillerie Hauskompanie, Dresden		1756	1763
Pionierkorps, Dresden		1756	1763
The four regiments of the electoral Saxon contingent of the Upper Saxon Circle perished with the army in 1756 and they were not raised again during the war. The Leibgrenadier-Garde spent the rest of the war in the neutral fortress of Königstein.

Bibliografia

Förster, Hoch, Müller, Swoboda: Uniformen europäischer Armeen, 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert
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Große, Otto: Prinz Xaver von Sachsen und die sächs. Armee 1758–1763, Leip. 1907
Großer Generalstab, Die Kriege Friedrichs des Großen. Der Siebenjährige Krieg
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Mollo, John: Uniforms of the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763
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Ref.No. UPS 56, Museum für deutsche Geschichte (Zeughaus), Berlin

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Soldatini della Guerra dei Sette Anni

- Pubblicato: 29.09.2005 - Aggiornato: 26.02.2009
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