Order of battle
Of the French
Army of the Danube,
March 1799
Composed by Roland Kessinger,
source given below
[xxx] = strength
GD = Général de division
GB = Général de brigade
Commander-in-Chief: General
Jourdan
STAFF
Chief of Staff: GD Ernouf
Commander of the Genie: GD Marescot
Commander of the Artillery: GD Lamartilliere
GB of the Artillery Lemaire
GB Daultanne
Adjutant General Molitor
Adjutant General Hastrel
Adjutant General Barbier
Adjutant General D’Aclou
Commissaire-Ordinateur en chef:
Vaillant
Adjutant Generals Drouet and Fontaine
GB Soult, Laval, Mortier
25e Légère [2,132]
53e Demi-brigade (2 battalions) [2,032]
67e Demi-brigade (2 battalions) [2,128]
GD Klein
4th Hussars [520]
5th Hussars [598]
1st Chasseurs à Cheval [589]
17th Dragoons [395]
3rd Horse
Artillery (1st and 27th company) [163]
1st Foot
Artillery (1st and 6th company) [219]
3rd Battalion
Sappers (7th company) [177]
1ST DIVISION (GD Ferino)
Adjutant Generals Laval and Defrance
Left Brigade (GB Jacopin)
102e Demi-Brigade (2 battalions) [2,155]
6th Chasseurs a Cheval [588]
Right Brigade (GB
Tharreau)
10e Légère (2
battalions) [2,195]
46e Demi-brigade
(2 battalions) [2,102]
11th Dragoons [400]
6th Horse
Artillery (1st and 4th company) [141]
3rd Foot
Artillery (12th and 17th company) [340]
3rd Battalion
Sappers [192]
2ND DIVISION (GD Souham)
Adjutant
Generals Lorcet and Bertrand
Left Brigade (GB Goulus)
83e Demi-brigade
(2 battalions) [2,081]
6th Dragoons [389]
7th Horse Artillery
(4th company) [63]
Right Brigade (GB
Decaen)
2e Demi-Brigade
(2 battalions) [2,174]
7e Demi-Brigade
(2 battalions) [1,395]
1st Dragoons [208]
7th Horse
Artillery (3rd company) [60]
2nd Foot
Artillery (15th company) [82]
7th Foot
Artillery (13th company) [112]
3rd Battalion
Sappers (1st company) [161]
3RD DIVISION (GD St Cyr)
Adjutant Generals Debilly and Saligny
Left Brigade (GB
Walter)
Adjutant-General Debilly
108e Demi-Brigade
(2 battalions) [2,019]
2nd Dragoons [429]
Right Brigade (GB
Legrand)
Adjutant-General Saligny
1er Demi-Brigade
(2 battalions) [1,483]
50e Demi-Brigade (2 battalions) [1,411]
8th Chasseurs a Cheval [492]
10th Chasseurs a Cheval [432]
3rd
Horse Artillery (5th and 20th company) [164]
3rd
Foot Artillery (4th and 6th company) [137]
3rd
Battalion Sappers (3rd company)
GB Compere and Oswald
Adjutant Generals Ormencay and Collin
1st Carabiniers Regiment [339]
2nd Carabiniers Regiment [301]
4th Cavalry Regiment [240]
6th Cavalry Regiment [291]
7th Cavalry Regiment [257]
8th Cavalry Regiment [438]
23rd Cavalry Regiment [408]
25th Cavalry Regiment [293]
6th Horse
Artillery (5th company) [60]
7th Horse
Artillery (2nd company) [79]
3rd Foot
Artillery (2nd and 3rd company) [194]
3rd Battalion
Sappers [365]
1er legere (2
battalions) [1,342]
8e demi-brigade
(2 battalions) [1,486]
1st or 2nd
Dragoons (1 squadron)
8th or 10th
Chasseurs a Cheval (1 squadron)
Chefs de Brigade Lariboissiere
and Buchet
Chef d’Escadron Bourgant
Chefs de Bataillon Grosclaude,
Picoteau, Cuny
Total amount of cannon and howitzers in the Divisions and in the parc: 33 x 4-pdr, 21 x 8-pdr, and 7 x 12-pdr cannon; 19 howitzers
Main source: Precis des
Opérations de L’Armée du Danube sous les ordres du Général Jourdan (Paris, L’An
VIII) pp. 77-81
© Roland
Kessinger & Geert van Uythoven