Order of battle at the Battle of Loano explained

The Loano 1795 order of battle shows the forces involved in the Battle of Loano (23–24 November 1795), during which the army of the First French Republic attacked the combined forces of Habsburg Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont. The action resulted in a French tactical victory. The orders of battle are listed below.

Abbreviations

Military rank

• GD = French General of Division
  • GB = French General of Brigade FZM = Austrian Feldzeugmeister
• FML = Austrian Feldmarschall-Leutnant

Other

• mw = Mortally wounded
• w = Wounded
• c = Captured
• Det. = Detachment

Orders of battle

French

• Chief of Staff: GD Paul Louis Gaultier de Kervéguen

• GD André Massena commanded the two divisions and reserve belonging to the Center.

• Massena assumed direct command of Charlet's division after Charlet was mortally wounded.

There were two more field divisions in the Army of Italy. These were GD François Macquard's division guarding the Col de Tende and GD Pierre Dominique Garnier's division on the extreme left flank. Neither were directly engaged in the Battle of Loano, nor are they included in the following order of battle.

French Army of Italy at Loano^[1] ! Division! Brigade! Units! Strength

Right Wing GD Charles-Pierre Augereau	GB Pierre Banel (w) GB Claude-Victor Perrin GB Elzéar Dommartin GB Jean-Baptiste Rusca^[2]	6th Grenadier Battalion	384
		14th Grenadier Battalion	188
		Det. 8th Grenadier Battalion	116
		1st Light Infantry Demi-Brigade	401
		Line Infantry Chasseurs	650
		Det. 21st Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	164
		99th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	396
		10th Battalion/Ain Volunteers	393
		Det. 18th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	158
		105th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	450
		55th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	217
		69th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	274
		4th Provisional Demi-Brigade	179
		15th Provisional Demi-Brigade	131
		Grenadier Battalion	423
		145th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	261
		147th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	488
		19th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	911
		39th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	571
		12th Grenadier Battalion	206
		Right Wing Total	6,961
Center: 1st Division GD Étienne Charlet (mw)	GB Philippe Ménard	Sappers (2 companies)	216
		13th Provisional Demi-Brigade	516
		14th Provisional Demi-Brigade	649
		Eclaireurs	800
		Det. 8th Light Infantry Demi-Brigade	144
		16th Light Infantry Demi-Brigade	619
		2nd Battalion/6th Provisional Demi-Brigade	108
		3rd Battalion/122nd Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	208
		11th Grenadier Battalion	440
		79th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	634
		Sappers (2 companies)	180
		129th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	836
		2nd Battalion/3rd Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	272
		3rd Battalion/84th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	198
		1st Grenadier Battalion	422
		3rd Grenadier Battalion	460
		5th Grenadier Battalion	400
		10th Grenadier Battalion	431
		101st Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	900
		1st & 2nd Battalions 3rd Light Infantry Demi-Brigade	644
		2nd Battalion/102nd Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	238
		2nd Battalion/84th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	274
Center: Reserve		152nd Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	1,205
		2nd Grenadier Battalion	445
		13th Grenadier Battalion	496
		1st Battalion/100th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	266
		1st Provisional Demi-Brigade	625
		70th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	650
		Center Total	13,276
Left Wing GD Jean Sérurier	GB Louis Pelletier GB François de Miollis GB Paul Guillaume^[3]	2nd Battalion/Haute-Loire Volunteers	unknown
		1st Battalion/84th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	351
		3rd Eclaireur Company	195
		1st & 2nd Battalions 46th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	609
		51st Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	599
		3rd Battalion/6th Light Infantry Demi-Brigade	594
		Grenadier companies 109th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	152
		2nd & 3rd Battalions 117th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	678
		1st Battalion/Maine-et-Loire Volunteers	600
		1st & 3rd Battalions 56th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	257
		2nd Battalion/166th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade	210
		Left Wing Total	5,155

Austrians

• 23,380 infantry, 2,788 cavalry, 772 artillery

• Nafziger had no Austrian order of battle for Loano. The previous available report was from 20 June 1795, as follows.

Austrian Army of Italy on 20 June 1795! Division! Brigade! Units! Battalions! Squadrons

Division FML Johann von Wenckheim		Karlstadter Grenz Regiment^[4]	2	0
		Szluiner Grenz Regiment Nr. 63	1	0
		Strassoldo Infantry Regiment Nr. 27	2	0
		Meszaros Uhlan Regiment	0	2
	GM Michael von Ternyey (c)	Nadasdy Infantry Regiment Nr. 39	2	0
		Archduke Anton Infantry Regiment Nr. 52	2	0
		Brechainville Infantry Regiment Nr. 25	1	0
		Lattermann Infantry Regiment Nr. 45	2	0
		Alvinczi Infantry Regiment Nr. 19	2	0
		Reisky Infantry Regiment Nr. 13	3	0
		Terzi Infantry Regiment Nr. 16	3	0
Division GM Karl von Türkheim		Thurn Infantry Regiment Nr. 43	3	0
		Jordis Infantry Regiment Nr. 59	1	0
		Wilhelm Schröder Infantry Regiment Nr. 26	1	0
	GM Wilhelm Fischer	Meszaros Uhlan Regiment	0	6
		Erdödy Hussar Regiment Nr. 9	0	2
	Alessandro Filangieri, Prince of Cuto (Neapolitans)	King's Dragoon Regiment	0	4
		Queen's Dragoon Regiment	0	4
		Prince Royal Dragoon Regiment	0	4

Sardinians

• Chief of staff: Col Joseph Henri Costa de Beauregard

• Nafziger listed no Sardinian orders of battle for 1795, but there is one for January 1796, as follows.

Sardinian Army of Ceva in January 1796 ! Division! Units! Battalions! Companies

1st Division Col Theodor Hyacinth Brempt	Vercelli Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Geneva Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Royal German Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Chablais Infantry Regiment	2	0
2nd Division MG Luigi Costa della Trinità, Marquis of Montafia	Savoy Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Queen's Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Stettler Infantry Regiment	3	0
	Balegno Legion	1	0
	Saluggia Chasseurs	1	0
	Colli Chasseurs	1	0
	Tortona Infantry Regiment	1	0
	Chasseurs Francs	0	?
	Giulay Freikorps	0	?
	Dichat Grenadier Regiment	2	0
	Oneglia Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Oneglia Regiment Elite companies	0	3
	Light Legion Elite companies	0	6
	Bellegarde Legion	1	0
	Chasseurs Francs	0	4
	Militia	?	?
	Giulay Freikorps	0	?
2nd Division of the Right Col Friedrich von Bellegarde	Royal Grenadier Regiment	2	0
	D'Esery Grenadier Regiment	2	0
	Varan Grenadier Regiment	2	0
	La Tour Grenadier Battalion	1	0
	Andermatt Grenadier Battalion	1	0
	Chiusan Grenadier Battalion	1	0
	Mondovi Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Belgiojoso Infantry Regiment Nr. 44	2	0
	Schmidtfeld Infantry Regiment Nr. 48	2	0
	Garrison Infantry Regiment^[5]	1	0
	Strassoldo Regiment Grenadiers	0	2
	Giulay Freikorps	2	0
	Staff Dragoons	0	?
2nd Line Sardinians Col Gaspare Gaetano Hallot des Hayes, Count of Mussano	Guard Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Turin Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Asti Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Casale Infantry Regiment	2	0
	Acqui Infantry Regiment	2	0

See also

• List of orders of battle

Notes

Footnotes

Citations

References

• Book: Boycott-Brown, Martin . The Road to Rivoli: Napoleon's First Campaign . London, UK . 2001 . Cassell & Co. . 0-304-35305-1.
• Web site: Nafziger . George . George Nafziger . French Army at the Battle of Loano . 2023a . 27 October 2023 . U.S. Army Combined Arms Center . .
• Web site: Nafziger . George . George Nafziger . Austrian Army of Italy, 20 June 1795 . 2023b . 28 October 2023 . U.S. Army Combined Arms Center . .
• Web site: Nafziger . George . George Nafziger . Austro-Sardinian Army, January 1796 . 2023c . 28 October 2023 . U.S. Army Combined Arms Center . .
• Book: Phipps, Ramsay Weston . Ramsay Weston Phipps

. Ramsay Weston Phipps . The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I: The Armies in the West 1793 to 1797 and The Armies in the South 1793 to March 1796 . 3 . 2011 . 1931 . Pickle Partners Publishing . 978-1-908692-26-9 .

• Book: Pivka, Otto von . Digby Smith

. Digby Smith . Armies of the Napoleonic Era . 1979 . Taplinger Publishing . New York, N.Y. . 0-8008-5471-3 .

• Book: Smith, Digby . Digby Smith

. Digby Smith . The Napoleonic Wars Data Book . 1998 . London . Greenhill . 1-85367-276-9 .

Further reading

• Web site: Napoleon's 1796 Bloody Nose: March 1796 Sardinian Order of Battle . 29 October 2023 . This source gave the full names of Sardinian commanders.

Notes and References

1. In January 1796, the units shown here were reorganized into stronger demi-brigades. Then, on 17 March 1796, the regiments were renumbered. For example, what became the 211th Demi-Brigade in January was renamed the 18th Line Infantry Demi-Brigade in March (Phipps, pp. 273–274).
2. No brigade organization was listed for the Right Wing. Nafziger listed only the first three brigadiers. Phipps asserted that Rusca led a fourth brigade and that after Banel was wounded, Col Jean Lannes assumed command of Banel's brigade (Phipps, p. 264).
3. No brigade organization was listed for the Left Wing.
4. The list did not specify which of the Karlstadter Grenz regiments this was.
5. The Austrians had the 1st and 2nd Garrison Regiments (Pivka, p. 82). The Nafziger order of battle did not specify to which one this unit belonged.