ORDER OF BATTLE

OF THE AUSTRO-DUTCH FORCES

AT 1st FLEURUS,

 

commanded by his Highness General Hereditary Prince of Orange-Nassau

 

16 June 1794

Composed by Geert van Uythoven, out of various sources

 

Dutch

Swiss (in Dutch service)

French emigrée’s (in Dutch service)

German (in Dutch service)

Walloon (in Dutch service)

Austrian

French emigrée’s (in Austrian service)

 

 

 

FIRST AND SECOND COLUMN (General Jean-Pierre baron de Beaulieu; Austrian, General Werneck; Austrian)[17 battalions, 26 1/4 squadrons]

         Prince de Lichtenstein (Austrian), Major-general C. von Horn (Dutch)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 15 “d’Alton” (2 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 47 “Franz Kinsky” (2 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 36 “Ulrich Kinsky” (2 battalions)

                   3rd bat. / Infanterie Regiment No. 37 “De Vins” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 40 “Mittrowsky” (1 battalion) [No.10]

                   Grenadier Bataillon “Biedescuty” (1 battalion)

                   Grenadier Bataillon “Adorian” (1 battalion)

                   Grenadier Bataillon “De Briey” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment “Schmid” (1 battalion)

                   Grenadier battalion “Van Panhuijs” (1 battalion)1)

                   Infanterie Regiment “Oranje Gelderland” (1 battalion)

                   Grenadier battalion “Mollenbruyn” (1 battalion) 2)

                   Korps van Béon (1 light battalion, 2 squadrons)

                   Korps van Damas (1 light battalion, 2 squadrons)

                   Kurassier Regiment No. 29 “Erzherzog Franz” (4 squadrons)

                   Husaren Regiment No. 30 “Wurmser” (4 squadrons)

                   Husaren Regiment No. 17 “Erzherzog Leopold Alexander” (2 squadrons)

                   Hussards de Berchény (2 squadrons)

                   Hussards ? de Carneville (1 company)

                   Chevau-légers No. 7 “Kinsky” (6 squadrons)

                   Regiment Dragonders “Van Hessen-Cassel” (2 squadrons)

                   Regiment Dragonders “Van Bylandt” (2 squadrons)

 

THIRD COLUMN (Major-general Maximilien de Baillet de Latour; Austrian)[9 battalions, 16 squadrons]

         Welsch (Austrian), Major-general Johann Sigmund Graf Riesch (Austrian), Major-General Carel Vincent van Boetzelaer (Dutch)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 23 “Toscane” (2 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 18 “Von Wartensleben” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 17 “Hohenlohe” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 31 “Benjovszky” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 34 “Anton Esterházy” (1 battalion)

                   Vorst van Waldeck, 5th Battalion (1 light battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment Vorst van Waldeck, No. 1 (1 battalion)

                   Jagers van Bylandt (1 light battalion)

                   Korps Huzaren van Heeckeren (2 squadrons)[also called “Korps Zwarte Huzaren”]

                   Hussar Regiment No. 35 “Barco” (2 squadrons)

                   Kurassier Regiment No. 12 “Kavanagh” (6 squadrons)

                   Chevau-légers Regiment No. 28 “Lobkowitz” (6 squadrons)

 

FOURTH COLUMN (Quasdanowich; Austrian)[7 1/3 battalions, 12 squadrons]

         Major-General Heinrich Prinz von Reuβ-Plauen (Austrian), Baron de Finke (Austrian)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 42 “Erbach” (1 1/3 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 20 “Kaunitz” (2 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 54 “Callenberg” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 51 “Splenyi” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 14 “Klebeck” (2 battalions)

                   Hussar Regiment No. 2 “Kaiser" (4 squadrons)

                   Hussards de Saxe (2 squadrons)

                   Kurassier Regiment No. 14 “Nassau” (6 squadrons)

                   16 guns?

 

FIFTH COLUMN (Wartensleben; Austrian)[9 battalions, 12 squadrons]

         Sebottendorf (Austrian), Major-general Willem van der Duyn (Dutch), Pfister (Austrian)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 50 “Stain” (2 battalions)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 17 “Hohenlohe” (1 battalion)

                   Infanterie Regiment No. 56 “Wenzel Colloredo” (1 battalion)

                   Grenadier battalion “Van Buseck” (1 battalion) 3)

                   Grenadier battalion “Van Raesfeldt” (1 battalion) 4)

                   Grenadier battalion “Van Solms” (1 battalion)5)

                   Grenadier battalion “Van Hessen-Philipstall” (1 battalion) 6)

                   Regiment Cavalerie “Van Hessen-Philipstall” (2 squadrons)

                   Regiment Cavalerie “Van Tuyll van Serooskerken” (2 squadrons)

                   Korps Huzaren Van Timmerman (2 squadrons)[also called "Korps Roode Hussaren van Timmerman"]

                   Hussar Regiment No. 2 “Kaiser" (4 squadrons)

                   Légion Bourbon (2 squadrons)

 

Artillery: Besides the artillery already mentioned in the OB, attached to each Dutch infantry battalion were two 3-pdr cannon.

 

 

Footnotes:

1) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR No. 7 “De Bons”, No. 16 “Mönster”, and No. 23 “Stuart” (2 companies each).

2) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR No. 17 “Plettenberg”, “Markgraaf van Baden”, and “Nassau-Usingen” (2 companies each).

3) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR No. 3 “Dopff”, No. 10 “Brakell”, and No. 13 “De Thouars” (2 companies each).

4) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR No. 2 “Maneil”, No. 19 “Douglas”, and No. 24 “Bentinck” (2 companies each).

5) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR “Oranje-Nassau No. 1” (2 coys), “Oranje-Nassau No. 2” (2 coys), and “Erfprins van Oranje” (2 companies each).

6) Composed of the grenadier companies of the IR No. 5 “Des Villates”, No. 6 “Van Welderen”, and No. 8 “Bosc de la Calmette” (2 companies each).

© Geert van Uythoven