Thursday 19 March 2009

The OOB for Lindenau

HaT Figures by Thomas Willers
This OOB has been built by using the books of Nafziger (Napoleon at Leipzig. The Battle of the Nations 1813) and Smith (1813 Leipzig. Napoleon and the Battle of the Nations).

Austrian (25,190)
III Corps Gyulai

1st Division Crenneville (3,600)

1st Brigade Hecht
- 1/Warasdiner Kreuzer Grenz Regiment
- 1/Warasdiner St George Grenz Regiment
- Klenau 5th Chevaulegers (7 squad.)
- Rosenberg 6th Chevaulegers (6 squad.)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (6 guns)
2nd Division Murray (7,700)
1st Brigade Lamezna-Salins
- E.Ludwig 8th Infantry Regiment (3 bat.)
- Wurzburg 23th Infantry Regiment (3 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (8 guns)
2nd Brigade Weigel
- Mariassy 37th Infantry Regiment (2 bat.)
- Gyulai 60th Infantry Regiment (2 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (8 guns)
3rd Division Hessen-Homburg (7,600)
1st Brigade Czollich
- Kottulinsky 41st Infantry Regiment (3 bat.)
- Kaiser Franz 1st Infantry Regiment (2 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (8 guns)
2nd Brigade Grimmer
- Kollowrath 36th Infantry Regiment (2 bat.)
- Frohlich 28th Infantry Regiment (2 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (8 guns)
1st Light Division (attached) Liechtenstein (5,000 men)
1st Brigade Hessen-Homberg
- Jager Battalion no. 1
- Jager Battalion no. 2
- Kaiser 1st Chevaulegers (6 squad.)
- 3 pdr. Horse battery (6 guns)
2nd Brigade Grimmer
- 1/Broder Grenz Regiment
- Jager Battalion no. 7
- Levenehr 4th Dragoon Regiment (4 squad.)
- St Vincent 4th Chevaulegers regiment (4 squad.)
- 6 pdr. Horse battery (6 guns)
Reserve artillery
- 12 pdr. Foot battery (6 guns)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (6 guns)
- 6 pdr. Foot battery (6 guns)

Mensdorf Streifkorps (790)
- Erherzorg Ferdinand 3rd Hussar Regiment (2 squad.)
- Hessen-Homburg 4th Hussar Regiment (1 squad.)
- Gorin no. 1 Cossack Regiment
- Ilowski no. 10 Cossack Regiment

Thielman Streifkorps (1,500)
- Hohenzoller 2nd Chevauleger Regiment (2 squad.)
- Klenau 5th Chevauleger Regiment (1 squad.)
- Kienmayer 8th Hussar Regiment
- Silesian Hussar Regiment (Prussian) (2 squad.)
- Silesian National Cavalry Regiment (Prussian) (2 squad.)
- Jagodin no. 2 Cossack Regiment
- Gorin no. 2 Cossack Regiment
- Austrian/Cossack Horse Artillery battery (4 guns)

French (15,060)
Leipzig Garrison Margaron (5,500)
Brigade Bertrand
- 4/35th Leger Regiment
- 1/132nd Ligne Regiment
- 138th Ligne Regiment
- 1st Provisional Regiment (2 bat.)
- 1st Provisional Cavalry Regiment (4 squad.)
- 2nd Provisional Cavalry Regiment (4 squad.)
- 6 pdr. Horse artillery (6 guns)
Baden Brigade Hochberg
- Baden Lingg Jager Battalion
- 1/2/2nd Baden Line Regiment
- Baden battery (6 guns)

IV Corps Bertrand
12nd Division Morand (5,700)

1st Brigade Belair
- 1/2/3/4/8th Leger Regiment
2nd Brigade Toussaint
- 1/2/3/4/3th Ligne Regiment
3rd Brigade Hulot
- 1/2/4/23rd Ligne Regiment
- 1/2/3/137th Ligne Regiment
- 6 pdr. Foot Artillery (8 guns)
- 6 pdr. Foot Artillery (8 guns)
15th Division Fontanelli (1,900)
1st Brigade St-Andrea
- 1st Leger Regiment (2 bat.)
- 6th Ligne Regiment (1 bat.)
2nd Brigade Martel
- 1st Ligne Regiment (1 bat.)
- 4th Ligne Regiment (1 bat.)
3rd Brigade Moroni
- Milan Guard (1 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot Artillery (8 guns)
- 7th Ligne Regiment (1 bat.)
- 6 pdr. Foot Artillery (8 guns)
39th Division Franquemont (1,000)
1st Brigade Stockmayer
- 4 Combined Wurtemberg Battalions
2nd Brigade Jett
- 1/1st and 1/3rd Wurtemberg Chevauleger Regiment
- 6 pdr. Horse Artillery (6 guns)
29th Light Cavalry Brigade Wolf (220)
- Westphalian Chevauleger Regiment (1 squad.)
- Hesse-Darmstadt Chevauleger Regiment (1 squad.)
Reserve Artillery
- 6 pdr. Foot Artillery (8 guns)


4th Heavy Cavalry Division
2nd Brigade Quinette (740)
- 16th/17th/21st/26th/27th Dragoon Regiments (@ 1 squad. each)

- 5/13th Cuirassier Regiment
- Horse artillery (3 guns)

In the actual battle, the Austrian commander left several detachments to guard his flanks and communications, so only near 20,000 Austrian troops were available, i.e. a number clearly insufficient to take Lindenau.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Rafa

    Will Lindenau be your next battle?

    ian

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  2. Sure Ian... I am polishing the Scenario and adpting the OOB to the real set-up used by the Austrian General

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