Etat des Sachsischen Infanterie, Anno 1705 (State of the Saxon infantry in 1705)

Searching for winter campaign 1705-06 materials in Russian archives I found a set of docs about Saxon & Prussian (!) armies in 1705. Among them is a doc called “Etat des Sachsischen infanterie” or State/Regulation of the Saxon infantry. It’s in German, hand-written, no remarks (not a draft copy). The doc doesn’t have a date.

The “Etat…” contains 24 battalions combined into 10,5 regiments. Regimental strength & composition are authorized, not real. Some weak infantry regiments of a single battalion were combined into a one regiment of 2 battalions of the authorized strength. Furstenberg is shown in 3 batts, but strength is given only for 2.

List of Saxon infantry regiments, 1705

(I combined several tables into one & added strengths; the order of the troops is the same as in the doc called “List…”):

Regiment	Battalions	Auth. strength	Regimental name	Comments
1	4	2,777	Garde
2	2	1,651	Malleraque	Had individual staff
3	2	1,390	Konigin
4	2	1,389	Kurprinz
5	2	1,388	Weissenfels
6	2	1,389	Furstenberg
	1	Nd*	Furstenberg	* ? No ideas
7	1	1,389*	Venediger	*Strength for both batts
	1	-*	Biron
8	2	1,389	Warkerbarth
9	1	1,390*	Wostromirski	*Strength for both batts
	1	-*	Reust
10	1	1,390*	Drost	*Strength for both batts
	1	-*	Reibnitz
-	1	690	Joyouse
10	24	16,132

Saxon infantry in 1705 got a new regulation. Regiment had authorized strength of 1,391 men in 16 coys (2 battalions). Company consisted of 85 men: Kapitan (stab-officers in 5 senior companies; these coys had additional Sous-lieutenants), Lieutenant (Kapitan-lieutenant in inhaber’s coy), Fahnrich, Feldwebel, Sergeant, Fourier, 2 Tambour, Knecht, 4 Korporal, 8 Grenadier, 64 Musketeer. So, a battalion had strength of 680 men. Regimental staff was 31 men (see for details outstanding Dan Schorr’s booklet on Saxons 1700-16 p. 19 or Schuster & Francke p. 163). Garde regiment was of 32 coys or 4 battalions. Malleraque (raised from French & Swiss PoWs) was of 12 coys of 128 men in each (incl. 98 privates).