Battle of HOCHSTADT - 20 September 1703

by Vlad Gromoboy

Corps under Field Marshall count Herman Otto v. Limburg-Styrum

 

Left wing
Fieldmarshall-Lieutenant count Johann Palffy

General-major Dubislav Gneomar v. Natzmer auf Gannewitz

CR Leibregiment

(Prussian)

3 sqd.

DR Crassau

(Prussian)

2 sqd.

CR Markgraf Philipp Wilhelm v. Brandenburg

(Prussian)

3 sqd.

CR Wartensleben

(Prussian)

3 sqd.


General-Lieutenant Stauffenberg

DR Bayreth

(Franconian)

5 sqd.

DR Erbprince Wurttemberg

(Wurtemberg)

3 sqd.

DR Stauffenberg

(Schwabian)

3 sqd.


Centre
First line
General-Lieutenant Prince Leopold v. Anhalt-Dessau

GWM count Thurheim

IR Markgraf Philipp Wilhelm v. Brandenburg

(Prussian)

2 bat.

IR Prince v. Anhalt-Dessau

(Prussian)

2 bat.

IR Kanitz

(Prussian)

2 bat.

IR Erffa

(Franconian)

2 bat.

IR Baden-Baden

(Schwabian)

2 bat.


General-Lieutenant Freiherr v.d. Schulenburg

General-major Wostromirski

IR Sacken

(Saxon)

1 bat.

IR Thielau

(Saxon)

1 bat.

IR Wackerbarth

(Saxon)

1 bat.

IR Wostromirski

(Saxon)

1 bat.

IR Kurprinz

(Saxon)

1 bat.

IR Konigin

(Saxon)

1 bat.


Second Line
FML Erbprince Baden-Durlach

IR Schwarzenberg

(Franconian)

1 bat.

IR Sachsen-Weimar

(Franconian)

1 bat.

IR Schnebelin

(Franconian)

2 bat.


FML count Erffa

IR Waldt

(Schwabian)

2 bat.

IR Baden-Durlach

(Schwabian)

2 bat.

IR Furstenberg

(Schwabian)

2 bat.

 

Right wing

First line
FML Prince Maximilian v. Hannover

CR Leibregiment

(Saxon)

4 sqd.

CR Hohenzollern

(Austrian)

5 sqd.

DR Styrum

(Austrian)

5 sqd.


Second line

CR Eichstadt

(Saxon)

4 sqd.

CR Jordan

(Saxon)

4 sqd.

CR Kurprince

(Saxon)

4 sqd.



Total: 26 bat., 48 sqd.,

 

Losses / Pertes

Saxons, Schwabians, Franconians:

hauptman

 1

lieutenant

 6

fahnrich

 3

unterofficers

156

tambours

39

gemeine

 1913

fouriers

37

 

total killed & wounded

2140

missed

158

Saxons also lost their train:
proviant waggons - 121
proviant horses - 248
officers horses - 650
officers waggons - 92
zelte - 3252

 

Prussians

obristlieutenant

1

obristwachtmeister

1

hauptleute

2

lieutenant

2

fahnrich

1

unterofficer

29

tambours

20

gemeine

1023

 

total killed & wounded

1079

missed

46

Austrian & Kreis Cavalry

general-major

1

obrist

1

major

2

rittmeister

9

lieutenant

8

cornet

9

wachtmeister

5

fahnenjunker

3

musterschreiber

1

feldscheere

3

trompeter

10

schmiede

4

sattler

4

mann-corporal

31

pferde-corporal

33

gemeine

773

 

total killed & wounded

863

missed

196

 

horses killed

937

horses missed

108

 

Total losses

killed & wounded men

4082

missed

312

horses

1045

cannons

37

standards

9

Paar Pauken

1

fahnen

4

artillery train

 9 wagons


Also French captured pontoon train & materials.

Footnotes:

Lost standards - 9:

DR Styrum (Austrian) - 3
CR v. Jordan (Saxon) - 5 (in 4 squadrons?)
DR v. Crassau (Prussian) - 1

Paar Pauken was lost by CR Kurprince (Saxon)

Trophies, Standards - 6:

DR Styrum (Austrian) - 1
CR Hohenzollern (Austrian) - 1
CR Leibregiment (Saxon) - 1
CR Eichstadt (Saxon) - 2
CR Wartensleben (Prussian) - 1

Paar Pauken - 1 (by Saxon CR Kurprince)