Polish-Saxon BO at Riga in Livland, 4. August 1700

Marburg archive’s collection has a very interesting Polish-Saxon BO dated 4 August 1700. (http://www.digam.net/?dok=5753). It doesn’t meet with data from Schuster & Franke (Schuster O., Francke F.U. Geschichte der Sächsischen Armee. Leipzig, 1885, Teil 1). My main concerns are about Guard mounted units & converged grenadiers.

Feldlager der Polen gegen die Schweden vor Riga in Livland, 4. August 1700

Commanding officers:

FM Steinau,

second-in-command Duke of Courland

General-lieutenants: Bornstedt, Roebel

General-majors: Bretendorf (=Bentendorf), Venediger, Peust (=Beust)

1st Line

Right wing

- Flemming Dragoons

- Grenadiers a’Cheval 

- Carabinirs

- Garde du Corps
- Regiment du Roy (=Leib Reiterei)

Center

- Grenadiers (I never meet a mention of the converged grenadiers in the Saxon army)

- Garde Polonais (? Polnische/1st Garde or Polish regiment of Royal Guard under Donhoff – both were in Riga campaign 1700)

- Garde la Reine (? Konigin Infanterie or Polish Queen’s regiment – both were in Riga campaign 1700)

- Maistre de Camp. General (? A company of Courland troops?)

- Garde Allemande (= Sachsische or 2nd Garde)

- Grenadiers

Left wing

- Maistre de Camp. General (? Courland troops?

- Carabinirs (?)

- Pr. De Weissenfels (Dragoons)

2nd Line

- Wallons (??? evidently Wallachians choragwies of the Lithuanian army)

- Roebel (Infanterie)

- Bornstedt (Infanterie)

- Wallaches (= Wallachians)

3rd Line

Right wing

- Flemming (? His dragoons were in 1^st line)

- La Forest (Reiterei)

Centre

- Thiesenhausen  (Infanterie)

- Lithuanians (? They marked as infantry but Sapieha had only dragoons & light cavalry)

- Bentendorf (Infanterie)

Left wing

- Peust (= Beust Reiterei)

- Sanetki (= Sanosky Dragoner)