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Battle of Messkirch order of battle

The Battle of Messkirch on 5 May 1800 was the major engagement in the War of the Second Coalition. It followed the Battle of Stockach on 3 May. The campaign began on 25 April when a French force emerged from the Kehl bridgehead. This marked the start of the offensive of Jean Victor Marie Moreau's Army of the Rhine against Paul Kray's army of Habsburg Austria and its Bavarian, Württemberg and other German allies.

Votive icon of the Battle of Messkirch

French Army

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Headquarters

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Jean Victor Moreau

Commanding General: General-in-Chief Jean Victor Marie Moreau

Source: Nafziger, George. "French Army in Germany, 10 May 1800" (PDF). US Army Combined Arms Center. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

Right Wing

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Claude Lecourbe

General of Division Claude Lecourbe in Zürich

Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 177. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Center

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Laurent Saint-Cyr

General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr in Basel

  • General of Division Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers (8,340 infantry, 542 cavalry)
    • Generals of Brigade: Dominique Joba, François-Xavier Roussel, Just-Pasteur Sabathier
      • 12th Light Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 1st Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 15th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 23rd Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 2nd Hussar Regiment
  • General of Division: Jean Victor Tharreau (8,326 infantry, 611 cavalry)
  • General of Division: Michel Ney (7,270 infantry, 569 cavalry)
    • Generals of Brigade: Jean Pierre François Bonet, Charles August Bonnamy
      • 12th Light Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 54th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 76th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 103rd Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 8th Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Brigade Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys (2,474 infantry, 1,616 cavalry)

Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 178. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Left Wing

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Gilles Sainte-Suzanne

General of Division Gilles Joseph Martin Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne in Strasbourg

  • General of Division Claude-Sylvestre Colaud (2,740 infantry, 981 cavalry)
    • Generals of Brigade: Jean-Laurent-Justine Lacoste, Jean Pierre Girard-Vieux
      • 48th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 10th Cavalry Regiment
      • 16th Cavalry Regiment
      • 20th Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Division: Joseph Souham (4,687 infantry, 1,394 cavalry)
  • General of Division: Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand (5,286 infantry, 1,094 cavalry)
    • Generals of Brigade: Jacques Denis Boivin, Jean-Baptiste Drouet[1]
      • 7th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 27th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 13th Dragoon Regiment
      • 6th Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Division Henri François Delaborde (2,573 infantry, 286 cavalry)
    • Generals of Brigade: Jean-Pierre-Portschy Mercier, Henri-Joseph Thüring de Ryss
      • 29th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 65th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 2nd Helvétique Légion
      • 4th Cavalry Regiment
      • 19th Cavalry Regiment

Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 178. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Reserve

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General-in-Chief Moreau

Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 178. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Detached

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  • General of Division Louis-Antoine Choin de Montchoisy (7,715 infantry, 519 cavalry) in Switzerland
    • Generals of Brigade: Joseph Antoine Mainoni, Théodore Chabert
      • 1st Light Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 9th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 28th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 44th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 102nd Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 14th Cavalry Regiment
      • 22nd Cavalry Regiment
  • General of Division Jean François Leval (5,640 infantry, 426 cavalry)
    • Unbrigaded:
      • 65th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 91st Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 110th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 1st Helvétique Légion
      • 3rd Hussar Regiment
  • General of Division François Xavier Jacob Freytag (2,935 infantry)
    • Unbrigaded:
      • 29th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 95th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • 3rd Helvétique Légion
  • General of Division Joseph Gilot (750 cavalry)
    • Unbrigaded:
      • 1st Dragoon Regiment
      • 6th Hussar Regiment
  • General of Division Alexandre Paul Guérin de Chateaunef-Randon (3,430 infantry, 485 cavalry)
    • Unbrigaded:
      • 80th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • Polish Danube Legion
      • 15th Cavalry Regiment
      • 24th Cavalry Regiment
  • General of Division Antoine Laroche Dubouscat (3,100 infantry, 91 cavalry)
    • Unbrigaded:
      • 20th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
      • North French Legion
      • 16th Cavalry Regiment

Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 178. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Notes

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  1. ^ Nafziger, George. "The Army of the Rhine, 1 May 1800" (PDF). US Army Combined Arms Center. Retrieved 29 December 2014. Nafziger rendered the name "Drouet" while Smith made it "Devent".

References

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See also

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The following are excellent sources for the full names and ranks of French and Austrian generals of the French Revolution and Napoleonic periods.

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