Order of battle

Of the Austrian army around Stockach,

24 March 1799

Composed by Roland Kessinger, source given below

IR = Infanterie Regiment

Note: This OB is the “administrative OB” of the Austrian army on 24 March 1799. For the battle of Stockach one day later the “tactical OB” is slightly different (see: the article “Stockach, 25th March 1799” by Roland Kessinger in the magazine ‘First Empire’ No. 67 (Oct/Nov 2002) and 69 (March/April 2003).

Commander-in-Chief: Archduke Charles

ADVANCE GUARD (FML Nauendorf)

GM Gyulay

6th “Warasdin-St. Georg” Regiment Grenzer (I. Battalion)

8th “Gradiska” Regiment Grenzer (III. Battalion)

GM Piacek

Tyrolean Jaeger (4 companies)

5th “Radivojevich” Light Battalion (6 companies)

Croat-Slavonian Hussar Regiment No. 12 (10 squadrons)

“Waldeck” Light Dragoon Regiment No. 7 (4 squadrons)

GM Merveldt

Wurmser Freikorps (12 companies)

“Kaiser” Hussar Regiment No. 1 (8 squadrons)

“Merveldt” Uhlan Regiment No. 1 (8 squadrons)

GM Schwarzenberg

Grenz Sharpshooters (4 companies)

12th “Rubinitz” Light Battalion (6 companies)

Uhlan Regiment No. 2 (6 squadrons)

“Vecsey” Hussar Regiment No. 4 (6 squadrons)

MAIN BODY (FZM Graf O. Wallis)

ERSTES TREFFEN

FML Mels-Colloredo

GM Rosenberg

“K. Lothringen” Kurassier Regiment No. 7 (6 squadrons)

“Hohenzollern” Kurassier Regiment No. 8 (6 squadrons)

FML Reuss

GM Lindenau

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

IR No. 29 “O. Wallis” (3 battalions)

FML Petrasch

GM Kempf

IR No. 1 “Kaiser” (3 battalions)

IR No. 31 “Benjowsky” (2 battalions)

GM Wolf

IR No. 12 “Manfredini” (3 battalions)

IR No. 49 “Kerpen” (2 battalions)

FML Riesch

GM Hohenlohe

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

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

ZWEITES TREFFEN

FML Prinz Alexander von Württemberg

GM Klinglin

“Erzherzog Franz d’Este” Kurassier Regiment No. 2 (6 squadrons)

“Ansbach” Kurassier Regiment No. 11 (6 squadrons)

FML L. Baillet-Latour

GM Mylius

12th Deutsch-Banat Regiment Grenzer (1 battalion)

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

IR No. 22 “Lacy” (3 battalions)

FML Furstenberg

Col Ulm

IR No. 35 “Wenkheim” (3 battalions)

GM Vogelsang

13th Wallach-Illyrian Regiment Grenzer (I. Battalion)

IR No. 21 “Gemmingen” (3 battalions)

IR No. 42 “Erbach” (2 battalions)

FML Carl Lothringen

GM Canisius

“Kaiser” Kurassier Regiment No. 1 (6 squadrons)

“Herzog Albert” Kurassier Regiment No. 3 (6 squadrons)

FML Prince Anhalt-Koethen

GM O’Reilly

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

GM Roe

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

RESERVE (FML Baron Schröder)

FML Kospoth

GM Spiegelberg

“Erzherzog Ferdinand Carl d’Este” Hussar Regiment No. 3 (8 squadrons)

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

FML V. Kollowrath

GM Sebottendorf

IR 2 “Erzherzog Ferdinand” (3 battalions)

GM Schellenberg

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 Mandel

“Meszaros” Hussar Regiment No. 10 (8 squadrons)

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

“Zeschwitz” Kurassier Regiment No. 5 (6 squadrons)

Source: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv – Kriegsarchiv; Alte Feldakten, Deutschland, 1799/3/215