FORCES SUCCESSIVELY EMPLOYED BY NAPOLEON AGAINST RUSSIA IN 1812
Date of Muster Roll.
Battalions.
Squadrons.
Infantry and Foot Artillery.
Cavalry and Horse Artillery.
Total.
Guns.
Grand Head-quarters
June 24
3,075
908
3,983
(?)
1st Corps d Armée
” ”
88
16
68,627
3,424
72,051
150
2nd ” ”
” ”
48
16
34,299
2,840
37,139
92
3rd ” ”
“ ”@
45
24
35,755
3,587
39,342
86
4th ” ”
“ 30
54
20
42,430
3,368
45,798
116
5th ” ”
” 24
33
20
32,159
4,152
36,311
70
6th ” ”
July 1
28
16
23,228
1,906
25,134
58
7th ” ”
June 24
18
16
15,003
2,186
17,189
50
8th ” ”
” ”
18
12
15,885
2,050
17,935
34
9th ” ”
Sept 3
43
12
31,663
1,904
33,567
80
10th ” ”
June 24
36
16
30,023
2,474
32,497
84
Austrian Corps
” ”
26
44
26,830
7,318
34,148
60
Imperial Guard
Estimated (except Cavalry)
38
28
25,000
6,279
31,279
112
1st Cavalry Corps
June 24
—
54
—
12,077
12,077
30
2nd ” ”
” ”
—
52
—
10,436
10,436
30
3rd ” ”
” ”
—
50
—
9,676
9,676
30
4th ” ”
” ”
—
40
—
7,964
7,994
24
32nd Division
Nov 2
18
—
13,592
—
13,592
20
34th ”
Nov 18
19
6
13,290
700
13,299
16
Engineers,Artillery Reserves, etc.
10,000(?)
230
410,849
83,279
504,128
1,372
Absentees who rejoined
—
—
—
37,100
—
Lagrange’s Division (Drafts)
—
—
—
13,408
—
Foreign Guard Battalions}
Kosinski’s Polish Brigade}
Austrian Reserve Brigade}
circa
—
—
70,000
18
2 German Regiments }
Drafts of all kinds}
624,636
In Duchy of Warsaw and on Vistula }
5 Foreign Guard Battalions}
Heudelet’s Division (20 Battalions)}
Destrée’s Division (Neapolitans) at Danzig}
—
—
—
50,000
32
New Levies, Drafts, etc.}
Garrisons on Vistula}
674,636
1,422
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It is extremely difficult to compute the numbers of reinforcements, etc., since a proportion of them consisted of convalescents and rejoining stragglers.
No allowance is made for the large number of transport drivers and other non-combatants.
