Reicharmee under GFM Karl von Lothringen at the start of the siege of Philipsburg, April 1676

Belagerung von Philipsburg 1676
by Romeyn de Hooghe
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Reicharmee under GFM Prinz Karl V of Lothringen numbered about 32,000 in the April of 1676 at the start of the operations against Philipsburg. The army laid siege on the Philipsburg on the 1 (or 11) May of 1676. The garrison under Du Fay was of 2,298 infantry & 466 cavalry with 100 guns. Karl Lothringen successfully repealed attempts of the French army of Rhein under Marshal Luxembeurg to relief the siege. Meanwhile siege forces under Markgrave Herman von Baden made the garrison to capitulate after several severe attacks on the 9 of September 1676.

Austrian troops:

Infantry (12): Souches, Pio, Keyserstein (half), Kuigge (half), Alt-Grana, Neu-Grana, Portia, Starenbergh, Serini, Straim, Stadel (Reus), Mansfeld (Lesli) – total around 18,000

Kurassiers (14): Montecucoli, Bournonville, Sporck, Loraine, Heyster, Caprara, Bareuth, Dunewalt, Alt-Holstein (half), Harrant, Rabatta, Gondola, Gallas, Neu-Holstein

Kroaten (1): Ladron

Dragoner (2): Trautmansdorff, Chavagnack

Lothringer troops: 5 regiments & 3 companies of Reiters (Cuirassiers) & 2 regiments of Dragoons

Total mounted troops (Austrian & Lothringer) ab. 14,000

Source: Hollandse Mercurius. April 1676. S. 67.