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III Corps

Marshal Davout
Louis Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas d'Avout , better known as Davout, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, was a Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Era. His prodigious talent for war along with his reputation as a stern disciplinarian, earned him the title "The Iron Marshal"...


Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Division


General of Division Morand
Charles Antoine Morand
Charles Antoine Louis Alexis Morand Comte de l'Empire, was a general of the French army army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars...

  • 13th Light Infantry
  • 17th Line Infantry
  • 30th Line Infantry
  • 51st Line Infantry
  • 61st Line Infantry
  • two foot batteries (13 guns)
Second Division


General of Division Friant
Louis Friant
Louis Friant was born in the village of Morlancourt, 8 km south of Albert near the river Somme. The village would later suffer the misfortune of lying along the Western Front trench-lines of World War I....

  • 33rd Line Infantry
  • 48th Line Infantry
  • 108th Line Infantry
  • 111th Line Infantry
  • one foot battery (8 guns)
Third Division


General of Division Gudin
Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière
Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, count, was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.-Early career and Revolutionary Wars:...

  • 12th Line Infantry
  • 21st Line Infantry
  • 25th Line Infantry
  • 85th Line Infantry
  • one foot battery (8 guns)
Light Cavalry


General of Brigade Viallanes
  • 1st Chasseurs
  • 12th Chasseurs
Corps Artillery Reserve
  • three foot batteries, one horse battery (17 guns)

  • IV Corps

    Marshal Soult
    Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
    Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia , the Hand of Iron, was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804. He was one of only six officers in French history to receive the distinction of Marshal General of France...


    Divisions Regiments and batteries
    First Division


    General of Division Saint-Hilaire
    Louis Vincent Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire
    Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond, comte de Saint-Hilaire was a French general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.-Early career:...

    • 10th Light Infantry
    • 35th Line Infantry
    • 43rd Line Infantry
    • 55th Line Infantry
    • two foot batteries (12 guns)
    Second Division


    General of Division Leval
    • 24th Light Infantry
    • 4th Line Infantry
    • 28th Line Infantry
    • 46th Line Infantry
    • 57th Line Infantry
    • two foot artillery batteries (12 guns)
    Third Division


    General of Division Legrand
    • 26th Light Infantry
    • 18th Line Infantry
    • 75th Line Infantry
    • Tirailleurs Corses
    • Tirailleurs du Po
    • two foot batteries (12 guns)
    Corps Artillery Reserve one foot battery (6 guns)

    VI Corps

    Marshal Ney
    Michel Ney
    Michel Ney , 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I...


    Divisions Regiments and batteries
    First Division


    General of Division Marchand
    Jean Gabriel Marchand
    Jean Gabriel Marchand, 1st Count Marchand went from being an attorney to a company commander in the army of the First French Republic in 1791. He fought almost exclusively in Italy throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and served on the staffs of a number of generals...

    • 6th Light Infantry
    • 39th Line Infantry
    • 69th Line Infantry
    • 76th Line Infantry
    Second Division


    General of Division Gardanne
    Gaspard Amédée Gardanne
    Gaspard Amédée Gardanne was a French general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.-Biography:Born at at Solliès-Pont, he joined the French royal army in 1779. After the French Revolution he joined a volunteer unit as an officer. He fought under Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1796-1797 and 1800...

    • 25th Light Infantry
    • 27th Line Infantry
    • 50th Line Infantry
    • 59th Line Infantry
    Light Cavalry


    General of Brigade Colbert
    Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais
    Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, born 18 October 1777 in Paris - died 3 January 1809, Cacabelos, Spain), Comte de l'Empire joined the French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. He became a general officer of cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars and fought in a number of major...

    • 10th Chasseurs
    • 9th Hussars
    Corps Artillery Reserve
  • four foot batteries, two horse batteries (24 guns)

  • VII Corps

    Marshal Augereau
    Divisions Regiments and batteries
    First Division


    General of Division Desjardins
    • 16th Light Infantry
    • 14th Line Infantry
    • 44th Line Infantry
    • 105th Line Infantry
    • one foot and one horse battery (8 guns)
    Second Division


    General of Division de Bierre
    • 7th Light Infantry
    • 24th Line Infantry
    • 63rd Line Infantry
    • one foot and one horse battery (8 guns)
    Light Cavalry


    General of Brigade Durosnel
    • 20th Chasseurs
    • one horse battery (4 guns)
    Corps Artillery Reserve
  • two foot batteries (16 guns)

  • Imperial Guard

    Divisions Regiments and batteries
    Infantry


    Marshal Lefebvre
    François Joseph Lefebvre
    François Joseph Lefebvre, First Duc de Dantzig was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon....

    • 1st Grenadiers à pied
    • 1st Chasseurs à pied
    • 2nd Chasseurs à pied
    Imperial Guard Cavalry


    Marshal Bessières
    Jean-Baptiste Bessières
    Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st Duc d' Istria was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era. His younger brother, Bertrand, followed in his footsteps and eventually became a Divisional General...

    • Grenadiers à Cheval
      Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale
      The Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale constituted a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard during the French Consulate and First French Empire respectively...

    • Chasseurs à Cheval and Mamelukes
    Artillery
  • two horse batteries (12 guns)

  • Reserve Cavalry

    Marshal Murat
    Joachim Murat
    Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...


    Divisions Regiments and batteries
    First Cuirassier Division


    General of Division Nansouty
    Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
    Count Étienne-Marie-Antoine-Champion de Nansouty was a French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General of Division in 1803 and subsequently held important military commands during the Napoleonic Wars. Of noble Burgundian descent, he was a student at...

     (absent)
    • 9th Cuirassiers
    • 11th Cuirassiers
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    Second Cuirassier Division


    General of Division d'Hautpoul
    Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
    Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul was a French cavalry general of the Napoleonic wars. He came from an old noble family of France whose military tradition extended for several centuries....

    • 1st Cuirassiers
    • 5th Cuirassiers
    • 10th Cuirassiers
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    First Dragoon Division


    General of Division Klein
    Louis Klein
    Louis Klein served in the French military during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars as a general of cavalry....

    • 1st Dragoons
    • 2nd Dragoons
    • 4th Dragoons
    • 14th Dragoons
    • 20th Dragoons
    • 26th Dragoons
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    Second Dragoon Division


    General of Division Grouchy
    Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy
    Emmanuel de Grouchy, 2ème Marquis de Grouchy was a French general and marshal.-Biography:Grouchy was born in Paris, the son of François-Jacques de Grouchy, 1st Marquis de Grouchy and intellectual wife Gilberte Fréteau de Pény . His sister was Sophie de Condorcet, a noted femininist...

    • 3rd Dragoons
    • 4th Dragoons
    • 6th Dragoons
    • 10th Dragoons
    • 11th Dragoons
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    Third Dragoon Division


    General of Division Beaumont
    Marc Antoine de Beaumont
    Marc Antoine Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont, born 23 September 1763 – died 4 February 1830, a French nobleman, became a page to the king and joined the army of the Old Regime. He stayed in the army during the French Revolution and narrowly escaped being executed...

    • 5th Dragoons
    • 8th Dragoons
    • 12th Dragoons
    • 16th Dragoons
    • 19th Dragoons
    • 21st Dragoons
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    Fourth Dragoon Division


    General of Division Sahuc
    Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc
    Louis-Michel-Antoine Sahuc, born 7 January 1755 – died 24 October 1813, joined the French Royal Army and spent 20 years there before fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars. He rose to command a French cavalry regiment and later became a general officer...

    • 17th Dragoons
    • 18th Dragoons
    • 19th Dragoons
    • 21st Dragoons
    • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
    Light Cavalry Division


    General of Division Lasalle
    • 1st Hussars
    • 3rd Hussars
    • 5th Hussars
    • 13th Chasseurs
    Light Cavalry Brigade


    General of Brigade Wathier
    Pierre Watier
    Pierre Watier , was a French general of division.Born at Laon, Aisne, Watier is one of 660 personalities to have their name engraved under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the city where he died. His name appears on the 12th column and is spelt WATHIER....

    • 11th Chasseurs
    • Bavarian 1st Kronprinz Chevau-léger
    Corps Artillery Reserve
  • one horse battery (8 guns)

  • Russian Army

    General of Cavalry Count Bennigsen
    Levin August, Count von Bennigsen
    Levin August Gottlieb Theophil , Count von Bennigsen was a German general in the service of the Russian Empire....



    Chief of Staff: Quartermaster-General, Major F.F. Steinheil

    Second Division

    Lieutenant General Count A.I. Ostermann-Tolstoi
    Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
    Alexander Ivanovich Count Osterman-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and soldier in the era of the French Revolutionary Wars...


      • Cavalry Brigade


    MG (Major General) Kozhin
    • Leib Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
    • Kargopol Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Isum Hussars (10 sqs)
    • Ilowaiski 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
    • Efremov 3 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry


    Brigade MG Masowski
    • Pavlovski Grenadiers ( 3 bns)
    • Rostov Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Sukin 2
    • Petsburg Grenadiers (3 bns)
    • Eletz Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Diven 3
    • 1st Jaegers (3 bns)
    • 20th Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Stavitsky 1

    • Battery Company Maj Osipov (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Talyzin (12 guns)
    • Light Company May Efremov (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Voyeikov (12 guns)
    • Horse Battery Col Stavitsky 1 (12 guns)
    • 1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Dreyer


    Third Division

    Lieutenant General Baron [F.W. [Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken | von der Osten-Sacken]]
      • Cavalry Brigade MG Count P.P. von der Palen 3

    • Little Russian Cuirassers (5 sqs)
    • Kurland Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Ilowaiski 10 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
    • Papuzin Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry


    Brigade MG Ushakov 1
    • Tauride Grenadiers (3 bns)
    • Lithuanian Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Titov 2
    • Kaporsk Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Muromsk Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Prince Dolgorukov 5
    • Tschernigov Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Dnepr Musketeers (3 bns)
    • 21st Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col von Bril

    • Battery Company Col von Bril (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Kotlyarov (12 guns)
    • Light Company May Mitrofanov (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Strazhev (12 guns)
    • Horse Battery Col Pirogov (12 guns)
    • Pontoon Company of Captain Khoven

    1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Afanas'ev 1

    Fourth Division

    Major General A.A. Somov
      • Cavalry MG Baron Korf

    • St. George (Order) Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
    • Pskov Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Polish Horse (10 sqs)
    • Grekov 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
    • Grekov 18 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry


    Brigade MG Somov
    • Tula Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Tengisk Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Arseniev 2
    • Tobolsk Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Polotzk Musketeers (3 bns)


    Brigade MG Barclay de Tolly
    • Kostroma Musketeers (3 bns)
    • 3rd Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Prince Yashvil 2

    • Battery Company Maj Savitsky (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Kudryavtsev (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Yushkov (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Brimmer (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Mikulin (12 guns)
    • Horse Company Col Prince Yashvil 2 (12 guns)
    • Pontoon Company of Major Artsibashev
    • 1st Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Captain Gebner 1


    Fifth Division

    Lieutenant General N.A. Tuchkov I
      • Cavalry Brigade MG Prince Golitsyn

    • Riga Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Kasan Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Elisabethgrad Hussars (10 sqs)
    • Lithuanian Horse (10 sqs)
    • Gordeev 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry

    • Brigade ?
    • Sievsk Musketeers (3 bns)
    • [Kaluga Musketeers (3 bns) Detached to Prussians; not present]

    • Brigade MG Leont'ev
    • Perm Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Mohilev Musketeers (3 bns)

    • Brigade Col Priouda
    • 24th Jaegers (3 bns)
    • 25th Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Count Sievers

    • Battery Company Col Count Sievers (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Sigismund (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Klingenberg (12 guns)
    • Horse Company Maj Obleuhov 1st (12 guns)


    Troops from the Sixth Division

    Brigade MG K.F. Baggovut
    • Starooskol Musketeers (3 bns)
    • 4th Jaegers (3 bns)

      • From the Cavalry Brigade

    • Alexandria Hussars (10 sqs)
    • Popov 5 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • From the Artillery Brigade

    • Battery Company Lt-Col Vasil’ev (12 guns)
    • Horse Company Col Merlin (12 guns)
    • Light Company in two Light platoons (12 guns)


    Seventh Division

    Lieutenant General D.S. Dokhturov
    Dmitry Dokhturov
    Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov was a Russian Infantry General and a prominent military leader during the Patriotic War of 1812....


      • Cavalry Brigade MG Chaplits

    • Moscow Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Ingermannland Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Pavlograd Hussars (10 sqs)
    • Malachov Cossacks (5 sotnias)
    • Andronov 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry

    • Brigade MG Zapol'skii
    • Ekaterinoslav Grenadiers (3 bns)
    • Moscow Musketeers (3 bns)

    • Brigade MG Straton-Potapov
    • Vladimir Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Voronezh Musketeers (3 bns)

    • Brigade MG Markov 1
    • Pskov Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Azov Musketeers (3 bns)
    • 5th Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Ermolov

    • Battery Company Maj Ansio (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Shulman 2nd (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Kondratiev (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Panfilov (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Krivtsov (12 guns)
    • Horse Company Col Ermolov (12 guns)
    • 2nd Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company Maj Berg


    Eighth Division

    Lieutenant General P.K. Essen 3
      • Cavalry Brigade MG P.F. Glebov-Streshnev

    • Petersburg Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Livland Dragoons (5 sqs)
    • Olviopol Hussars (10 sqs)
    • Kieselev Cossacks (5 sotnias)
    • Sysojev Cossacks (5 sotnias)

      • Infantry

    • Brigade MG Olsuf’ev 3
    • Moscow Grenadiers (3 bns)

    [* Viburg Musketeers Detached; fought with Prussian Corps]
    • Brigade MG Engelhardt 1
    • Schlusselburg Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Staroingermannland Musketeers (3 bns)

    • Brigade MG Levitsky
    • Podolsk Musketeers (1 Musketeer bn)
    • Archangelgorod Musketeers (3 bns)
    • 7th Jaegers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Nowak 1

    • Battery Company Maj Nepeytsyn (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Kolotinski (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Tatpykov (12 guns)
    • Battery Company Maj Bastian 2d (12 guns)
    • Horse Company Col Nowak 1st (12 guns)
    • 2nd Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Maj Zapreev


    Fourteenth Division

    Major General Count N. M. Kamensky 2d
      • Cavalry Brigade Col Sheplev [Brigade may not have been present]

    • Finland Dragoons (5 squadrons)
    • Mitau Dragoons (5 squadrons)
    • Grodno Hussars (10 squadrons) [Not present. Arrived at the army the day after the battle]

      • Infantry

    • Brigade MG Alekseev
    • Belozersk Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Ryazan Musketeers (3 bns)

    • Brigade MG Gersdorf
    • Uglits Musketeers (3 bns)
    • Sofia Musketeers (3 bns)

      • Artillery Brigade Col Papkov 2

    • Battery Company Col Papkov 2d (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Vitovtov (12 guns)
    • Light Company Maj Green (12 guns)
    • Pontoon Company of Major Rutkovski


    Prussian artillery temporarily attached to the Russian Army's Right Flank at Eylau

    Maj von Brockhausen
    • 12–pound Battery Brockhausen Nr 34 (8 guns)
    • 12-pound Battery Kulikke Nr 37 (8 guns)
    • 6-pound Battery Wedekind Nr 8 (10 guns)

    Prussian Corps

    Lieutenant General Anton von l'Estocq

    General-Quartermaster-Lieutenant: Col von Scharnhorst

    Avantgarde
    • 50 cavalry from the Towarczys Regiment
    • 40 cavalry from the Auer Dragoon Regiment Nr 6

    • Auer Dragoon Regiment Nr 6 (9 sqs)
    • Bredow Horse Battery Nr 8 (8 guns)


    Third Division

    Major General von Auer
    • Towarczys Regiment (10 sqs)
    • Half of Horse battery Decker Nr 10 (4 guns)
    • Vyborg Musketeers (Russian) (3 bns)


    Second Division

    Major General von Rembow
    • Infantry Regiment Nr 11 "Schoning" (2 bns)
    • Grenadier Battalion "Schlieffen"


    First Division

    Major General von Diericke
    • Grenadier Battalion "Fabecky"
    • Infantry Regiment Nr 2 "Ruchel" (2 bns)
    • Dragoon Regiment Nr 7 "Baczko" (10 sqs)
    • Cuirassier Regiment Nr 4 "Wagenfeld" (4 sqs)
    • Half of Horse Battery Nr 13 "Rentzel" (4 guns)


    Rearguard

    Major General von Prittwitz
    • Half of Fusilier Battalion Nr 21 "Stutterheim" (2 companies)
    • 1st Battalion, Hussar Regiment Nr 5 "Prittwitz" (5 sqs)
    • Half of Horse Battery Nr 6 "Sowinski" (4 guns)

    Sources

    • Cowan, Coley E. "Winter Battle: Eylau 1807". Strategy & Tactics Magazine, number 228 (May/June 2005). ISSN 1040-886X
    • Smith, Digby
      Digby Smith
      Digby Smith is a British military historian. The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a "boy soldier," he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16...

      . The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9 Vasil'ev, AA, "COMPOSITION of ALLIED TROOPS at EYLAU: List of the Allied Russian and Prussian troops participating in the Battle of Preussisch-Eylau January 26 and 27 (February 7 and 8) 1807", Imperator No. 11 pp. 11–14 (2007)
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