In the end of 1702 August II of Saxony agreed to provided an Auxiliary Corps of 6,000 on Austrian service. The Corps consisted of 6 (Konigin, Kurprinz, Beichling, Wostomorsky, Thielau, Sacken) Infantry & 4 (Leib, Kurprinz, Jordan, Eisenach) Cuirassier regiments. By that moment Saxon army consisted of 15 Infantry, 8 Cuirassier & 6 Dragoon regiments. Some of them were heavily suffered at Klissow, & some were created in 1702 & were not completed yet. So, August sent on Austrian service about 50% of his troops available by the moment. It was the main reason of his low activity in Poland during the 1703 year.
Corps was commanded by GL I.M. v.d. Schulenburg, GMs v. Plotz, Wostomirski & v. Kanitz. Infantry regiments were of a single battalion, 8 coys. Evidently the second battalion was used to strengthen the first one to the authorized strength. Saxons had field pieces but their number is unknown, probably one per battalion (6 in total?).
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Table of the Saxon Auxiliary Corps dated 11 May 1703
Source: Feldzuge des Prinzen Eugen... B. V. S. 677
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The Corps had winter-quarters in Bohemia & in February 1703 came to Upper Austria where joined FML Schlick Corps.
11 March 1703 - action at Scherding/Eisenbirn, where GM Plotz was captured by Bavarians. Saxons lost 5 cannons & a part of their train
2 April 1703 - taking of Bavarian redoubt at Neuhaus.
21 Sept 1703 - First battle of Hochstadt. Saxons lost 940 men incl. 17 officers.
Saxon Corps had winter-quarters near Ravensburg. In April 1704 Schulenburg got order from August to leave Austrian service & return to Saxony. Corps arrived to Dresden on 20 May 1704.
See details of it's actions in Schuster & Francke's Geschichte der Sachsischen Armee Band 1. S. 154-156:
Саксонский вспомогательный корпус на австрийской службе, 1702-1704
В конце 1702 года Август согласился предоставить для участия в войне за Испанское наследство саксонский контингент в 6 тыс. чел. В состав корпуса вошли 6 пехотных и 4 кирасирских полка. К концу 1702 саксонская армия насчитывала 15 пехотных, 8 кирасирских и 6 драгунских полков, но многие из них были либо серьезно потрепаны в кампанию 1702 года (Клишов...), либо их формирование еще не было завершено. Фактически Август отправил на австрийскую службу около половины имевшихся у него войск, что стало основной причиной его низкой активнеости в Польше в 1703 г.