The Officer's Prey

APPENDIX 1

Composition of the French Army at the beginning of the

Russian Campaign

Emperor Napoleon I

Prince Murat is Lieutenant-General

Emperor’s Household

General Staff of the Grande Armée

General Administration of the Grande Armée

Imperial Guard (30,000 men)

I Corps (Marshal Davout) (70,000)

II Corps (Marshal Oudinot) (40,000)

III Corps (Marshal Ney) (35,000)

IV Corps (Prince Eugène) (45,000)

V Corps (General Poniatowski) (35,000)

VI Corps (General Gouvion-Saint-Cyr) (23,000)

VII Corps (General Reynier) (18,000)

VIII Corps (King Jérôme Bonaparte) (16,000)

X Corps (Marshal Macdonald) (30,000)

Prussian Corps (von Grawert) (17,000)

Austrian Corps (Prince Swartzenberg) (30,000)

I Reserve Cavalry Corps (General Nansouty) (12,000)

II Reserve Cavalry Corps (General Montbrun) (11,000)

III Reserve Cavalry Corps (General Grouchy) (7,000)

IV Reserve Cavalry Corps (General de La Tour Maubourg) (6,000)

Grand Artillery and Engineering Park

IX Corps (Marshal Victor) (25,000) and XI Corps (Marshal Augereau) (45,000) were held in reserve in Germany and would not become involved until the end of the campaign.

In total about 400,000 soldiers and 1,200 cannon directly took part in the campaign.

(The numbers given are intended for guidance only and vary considerably according to sources but the overall figure of 400,000 men is accepted almost unanimously by historians.)