Grenadiers from
regiments 5 and 20. Normally these convergences lasted the duration
of the war but, on a number of occasions, strengths fell so low that
they were converged with other grenadier battalions until their
strengths were restored at which point they were separated again.
Take this regiment as an example. After the battle of Kunserdorf,
where losses were about 300 men, the battalion was converged with
7/30 Grenadiers to form a single battalion with 4 different facings.
Between the battles Kunersdorf and Torgau, a period of just over a
year, one assumes that new recruits filled 5/20 and it returned to
independent existence. But at Torgau it again suffered heavily and
after that battle was converged with Grenadiers 1/23.
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