Austrian army in 1677

According to Hollantse Mercurius (volume of 1677 S. 181) Austrian (Kayserlich) army contained in 1677 of 18 regiments & 40 new-raised companies of Cuirassiers, 4 regiments of Dragoons, 3 regiments & 40 new-raised companies of Croats, 20 regiments of foot - totaled about 69,200 of authorized strength. 

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Dutch & French fleets in the battle of Tobago, 22 March 1677

Dutch squadron under commodore Jacob Binckes was of 3 ships-of-line (top 3 in the table below), 5 frigates, 3 armed merchants (the last 3), a brander (De Zaeyer) & a yacht (De Fortuyn)

Ship	Captain	Cannons	Crew
Bescherminge	Jakob Binckes	50	153
Provincie van Zeelant	Pieter Constant	44	118
Huis te Kruiningen	Roermer-Vlack	56	128
Middelbourg	Jan Swart	36	83
Wapen van Leyden	Galtje Galtjes	34	73
Popjesburgh	Pieter Stolwijck	24	52
De Goude Star	Pieter Cooreman	28	74
L’Alcion (ex-French)	Cornelis Stolwijck	24	25
Duc de Jork	Fredrick Sweers	26	35
De goude Munnick	Dirck Schoen	31	25
De Sphaera mundi	Wylof Langerys	12	20

French fleet under D’Estrees was of 6 ship-of-line (top 6 in the table below), 4 frigates, one brander & some other smaller ships. There about 4,000 men on the ships, inl. 9 companies of soldiers (450) & about 400 volunteers.

Strength of the Ottoman Sipakhi cavalry in 1709 by A.Hill

Turkish Sipakhi's cavalrymen around 1707-08
Engraving by Gerard Scotin (source) 

British traveler Aaron Hill stated that there were 2 504 Zaims & 51 579 Timars in 21 provinces by 1709. The average number of Jabelu’s armed men per Timar was 3, per Zaim – 10. So, it gives about 180 000 of Sipakhi (Timariot) mounted troops. See also Marsiglie's data of around 1680 (link)  

	Province	Zaim	Timar
1	Anatolia	629	8570
2	Caraman	73	2165
3	Diarbekir	118	873
4	Scham	128	560
5	Sivas	108	3029
6	Erzurum	122	5548

Duke Ormonde's troops at Cadis & Vigo, July-October 1702

Rook's squadrons sailed from England in July of 1702 with a landing troops under James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. They composed of  9 663 British & 3924 Dutch troopers. They participated in the battles of Cadiz & Vigo Bay.

Siege of Landau, 12 Sept - 25 Nov 1704

Imperial troops invested Landau on 9 Sept 1704. French garrison under General-Lieutenant Yrieix Masgonthier de Laubanie composed of 12 battalions of infantry, 3 coys of Artillery, 2 Frei-coys & 2 sqns of cavalry -  totaled ab. 5,000.
List of new destinations of the Landau garrison troops after its capitulation.

Source:  Marcin, Ferdinand de. Campagne de M. le Marechal de Marsin en Allemagne. B. 2. S. 265.
The siege started on 12 Sept, when the main forces under Louis von Baden came. He had 52 battalions & 48 squadrons.

Гадзяцкий С.С. Карелия и Южное Приладожье в войне 1656-58 гг.

Продолжу выкладывать классиков отечественной истории: Гадзяцкий С.С. Карелия и Южное Приладожье в войне 1656-58 гг. // Исторические записки. Т. 11. М.,1941. С. 236-281. См. также статью С.С. Гадзяцкого о войне в Ингрии тут (ссылка), а также статьи О.А. Курбатова (ссылка 1 и ссылка 2) и М. Лайдре (ссылка 1 и ссылка 2). 

КАРЕЛИЯ И ЮЖНОЕ ПРИЛАДОЖЬЕ В РУССКО-ШВЕДСКОЙ ВОЙНЕ 1656-58 гг. 

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Карелия и Ижорская земля о древнейших времен являлись частью территории Господина Великого Новгорода. Карельские и ижорские племена, подобно некоторым другим чудским племенам, вместе с иль­менскими славянами были объединены Новгородским государством еще при его возникновении. Источники не сохранили каких-либо све­дений о борьбе карелов и ижоры с новгородцами, наоборот, они сви­детельствуют о том, что в борьбе Новгорода с врагами карелы и ижора всегда сражались в рядах новгородского войска. Карельские восстания 1314 и 1338 гг. носили ярко выраженный классовый — кре­стьянский характер. Карельские крестьяне во время этих восстаний боролись не против Новгорода, а против феодалов как новгородских, так и шведских. Теснейшие экономические, политические и культур­ные связи прикрепляли население Карельской и Ижорской земель к Новгороду. Пушные и рыбные богатства их служили одним из источ­ников товаров для новгородской торговли, а географическое положе­ние на великих водных путях, соединявших Запад и Восток, способст­вовало вовлечению карелов и ижоры как в самую торговлю Новго­рода с Западом, так и в обслуживание связанных с нею перевозок.

French Bleinheim's remnats from Tallard's army, 10 Sept 1704

Villier wrote to Chamillart on 10 Sept 1704 from Octfeld that only the following troops of cavalry escaped after Bleinheim from the Tallard's army of Germany

Action at Vinna, 16/26 August 1708.

In 1708 Sweden planned to retake Ingermanland from Russians. The main attack was to be done by Army of Finland under Lubecker’s command. Swedish military forces in Estland & Livland were very limited, so their tasks were to cover their provinces & divert Russian troops at Dorpat & Narva. In July of 1708 Swedes sent one reitar & one foot regiments from Reval to Wesenberg to cover Estland from Russian raiding parties from Narva. The foot regiment was Livländskt varvade infanteriregemente under command of colonel Hans Henrik von Liewen. At first time it was raised in the end of 1700 (patent issued on 28.06.1700) as a varvade infantry battalion. It was ruined at Erestfer in December 1701. Then it was re-established in spring of 1702 & again destroyed at Hummelshof. Raised again and expanded in 1703 to a regiment of 12 companies each of 84 men. The Livkompaniet was equipped as grenadiers. In August of 1708 Liewen went to Reval, commanding officer was lieutenant-colonel Heinrich Johan von Schlippenbach (son of Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach). The mounted unit was Estland och Ingermanland Adelsfan. It’s colonel F. Wachmeister was in captivity since June of 1704, his second-in-command was lieutenant-colonel Joachim Fredrik von Liewen. In summer of 1708 the regiment was of 8 coys totaled about 600 men. So, Swedes had about 1,500 men.

On 9 August (NS) a Russian raiding party destroyed Swedish mounted patrol near Wesenberg & captured a lieutenant & 5 reitars. Captives told that two Swedish regiments were encamped near Wesenberg. Russian commander General-Admiral Fedor Apraxin decided to cut-off & destroy them. His Corps consisted of a converged dragoon regiment under colonel Vasiliy Monastyrev (about 1,000 dragoons from Lutck, Vologda & Narva regiments), 300 converged dragoons from Bauer Division, 500 Cossacks under Bekhmetev & 3 infantry battalions from Narva garrison (I assume they were from Bush, Fichtenheim & Inglis regiments), totaled about 3-3,300 men.

Apraxin troops marched from Narva on 26 August 1708. The same day Russian destroyed a small Swedish redoubt on river Sem which was held by 2 coys of infantry (150 men) & 40 reitars. Captives gave more detailed info about Swedish troops & Apraxin continued his march on west. His vanguard was of 500 Cossacks under Bekhmetev, then Apraxin marched with dragoon & the last was infantry. When Bekhmetev approached Swedish camp at Vinna (2 miles on west from Wesenberg), he found Swedes ready to fight & decided to retreat to main Russian troops. Swedes followed him & met with Apraxin’s cavalry in one mile on west from Wesenberg. Swedes repelled attack of Russian cavalry, and Apraxin decided to wait for his infantry. When it came on the battlefield, Russians formed a battle-line & again attacked Swedes. Apraxin wrote that battle-lines approached each other on 45 meters. Enemies made only one volley, then Swedes turned back. Estland Adelsfan could retreat with minimum losses, but Swedish infantry was cut-off by Russian cavalry & totally destroyed. Apraxin wrote that he took 244 men (incl. H.J. Schlipenbach) & 916 Swedes were killed. Hoglund mentions that only infantry lost 241 PoWs & 704 killed. Russian losses according to Apraxin were only 16 killed & 53 wounded.   

H.H. Liewen regiment was re-built again in 1708-1709 (11 coys, incl. one of grenadiers)

Бой у мызы Виньи, 15/26 августа 1708.

Летом 1708 г. шведское командование запланировало наступление с целью отбить занятую русскими Ингрию. Главное наступление должно было осуществляться Финляндской армией Любекера, а имевшиеся в Лифляндии и Эстляндии войска должны были провести отвлекающие операции. В соответствии с этим планом, в сторону Дерпта и Нарвы в июле 1708 г. выдвинулись небольшие шведские отряды, задача которых была прикрыть шведские провинции от русских рейдов и, по возможности, блокировать данные крепости. 29 июля (СС) из Нарвы в сторону Ревеля была отправлена партия в 100 казаков, которая под Везенбергом разгромила шведский разъезд и взяла в плен поручика Штакельберга и 5 рейтар. Пленные сообщили, что около Везенберга (Ракобора) стоят «2 неприятельские регимента, один пехотной полковника фон Лива, которым командовал полуполковник Шлифенбах, в нем было 12 рот, другой рейтарский подполковника фон Лива, в нем рейтар 600 человек».

Franco-Bavarian army at Augsburg, 22 July 1704

Soon after D'Arco's defeat at Donauworth allied Franco-Bavarian army under Kurfurst Maximilian & Marshal Ferdinand de Marsin took strong positions at Augsburg. Their combined forces were of 45 battalions & 35 squadrons.