Order of battle at the Battle of Fleurus explained

In the Battle of Fleurus (26 June 1794) Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's French army repulsed an attack by the combined Austro-Dutch army led by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Tactically the battle was a draw but strategically it was a decisive French victory. The battle led to the collapse of the Coalition position in the Austrian Netherlands.

Key

• GdD = General de Division, army or division commander
• GdB = General de Brigade, division or brigade commander
• FM = Feldmarschall, army commander
• FML = Feldmarschall-Leutnant, column commander
• GM = General-major, brigade commander
• bns = infantry battalions
• sqns = cavalry squadrons
• Émigré = French Royalists

French army

General de Division Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (75,000)

• Reserve artillery
  • Two foot artillery companies

Army of the Moselle

GdD Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

• GdD Jacques Maurice Hatry (11,000)
  • GdB Jean-Antoine Chapsal
    • 27th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion
    • 44th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion
    • Moselle National Guard, 2nd and 3rd battalions
    • Côte-d'Or National Guard, 3rd Battalion
    • Seine-et-Oise National Guard, 6th Battalion
    • Doubs National Guard, 9th Battalion
    • 11th Dragoon Regiment, three squadrons
    • 18th Chasseurs à Cheval, one squadron
  • GdB Jean Pierre François Bonet
    • 33rd Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
    • 58th Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
    • Lot-et-Garonne National Guard, 1st Battalion
    • Loiret National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Var National Guard, 4th Battalion
  • One foot artillery company
• GdD Antoine Morlot (8,600)
  • • • • GdB Jean-Baptiste Olivier 110th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 14th Dragoon Regiment, three squadrons
  • GdB Henri Simon
    • 1st Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 34th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 10th Cavalry Regiment, four squadrons
  • One foot artillery company
• GdD Jean Étienne Championnet (9,100)
  • GdB Paul Grenier
    • 18th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 1st Dragoon Regiment, three squadrons
  • GdB Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand
    • 59th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 94th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 4th Cavalry Regiment, three squadrons
  • One foot artillery company
• GdD François Joseph Lefebvre (8,800)
  • GdB Jean François Leval
    • 5th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion
    • 54th Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
    • 99th Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
    • 9th Foot Chasseurs Battalion
  • GdB Jean-Baptiste Jacopin
    • 13th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 80th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 149th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
  • GdB Jean Sultzmann
    • 16th Light Infantry Battalion
    • 1st Foot Chasseurs Battalion
    • 18th Foot Chasseurs Battalion
    • Legion of the Moselle
  • One foot artillery company

Army of the North

GdD Jean Baptiste Kléber

• GdB Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (10,000)
  • GdB Jean Schlachter
    • Saint-Denis National Guard, 1st Battalion
    • Vosges National Guard, 5th Battalion
    • 4th Hussar Regiment, four squadrons
    • 12th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment, five squadrons
  • GdB Louis Fuzier
    • 47th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, three battalions
    • Vienne National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Paris National Guard, 10th Battalion
    • Seine-et-Oise National Guard, 10th Battalion
  • GdB Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
    • 56th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, three battalions
    • 32nd Light Infantry Battalion
    • Orne National Guard, 1st Battalion
    • Meurthe National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • 22nd Cavalry Regiment, four squadrons
  • One foot artillery company
• GdD Anne Charles Basset Montaigu (8,200)
  • GdB Joseph Léonard Richard
    • 10th Light Infantry Battalion
    • 4th Foot Chasseur Battalion
    • 6th Cavalry Regiment, one squadron
    • 7th Dragoon Regiment, four squadrons
    • 16th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment, one squadron
  • GdB André Poncet
    • 18th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 1st Battalion
    • 49th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 1st Battalion
    • 68th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 1st and 2nd Battalions
    • 89th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 1st Battalion
  • GdB Joseph Boisset
    • Calvados National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Haut-Rhine National Guard, 2nd and 3rd battalions
    • Mayenne-et-Loire National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Nièvre National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Eure National Guard, 3rd Battalion
    • Somme National Guard, 5th Battalion
    • Oise National Guard, 6th Battalion
  • Two foot artillery companies
• Detached from GdD Marie-Louis Ferrand
  • GdB Charles Daurier (6,000)
    • 18th Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 2nd Battalion
    • 72nd Line Infantry Demi-brigade, 1st and 2nd battalions
    • Loiret National Guard, 1st Battalion
    • 17th Cavalry Regiment, four squadrons
    • One foot artillery company
• Cavalry Division: Paul-Alexis Dubois (2,300)
  • GdB Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
    • 12th Dragoon Regiment, four squadrons
    • 2nd Hussar Regiment, two squadrons
    • 6th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment, four squadrons
    • One horse artillery company
  • GdB Guillaume Soland
    • 6th Cavalry Regiments, four squadrons
    • 8th Cavalry Regiments, four squadrons
    • One horse artillery company

Army of the Ardennes

GdD François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers

• GdD Marceau (6,000)
  • GdB Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge
    • 9th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • 172nd Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • Nord National Guard, 3rd Battalion
    • Pas-de-Calais National Guard, 8th Battalion
  • GdB Jean Hardy
    • Vendee National Guard, 1st Battalion
    • Volunteers National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • 11th Chasseurs à Cheval, four squadrons
  • One foot artillery company
• GdD Jean Adam Mayer (5,500)
  • GdB Jean Charles Prestat
    • 26th Line Infantry Regiment, three battalions
    • Nord National Guard, 2nd Battalion
    • Seine-Inférieur National Guard, 7th Battalion
  • GdB Claude Lecourbe
    • 16th Light Infantry Battalion
    • Aisne National Guard, 4th Battalion
    • 20th Chasseurs à Cheval, two squadrons
  • One foot artillery company

Austrian-Dutch army

FM Prince Josias of Coburg (32,000 infantry, 14,000 cavalry)

• 1st Column: William V, Prince of Orange
  • Brigade: Lieutenant General Prince von Waldeck
    • 8 Dutch bns, 8 Dutch sqns, 2 Émigré sqns
  • Brigade: Major General Prince Friedrich of Orange
    • 6 Dutch bns, 2 Swiss bns, 10 Dutch sqns, 2 Émigré sqns
  • Brigade: GM Johann Sigismund Riesch
    • 2 Austrian bns, 3 Émigré bns, 2 Émigré sqns
• 2nd Column: FML Peter Quasdanovich
  • Brigade: 7 1/3 Austrian bns, 16 guns
• 3rd Column: FML Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg
  • Brigade: 5 Austrian bns, 3 Austrian sqns, 2(?) Émigré sqns, 16 guns
• 4th Column: FML Archduke Charles
  • Brigade: 7 1/3 Austrian bns, 16 sqns, 18 guns
• 5th Column: FML Johann Peter Beaulieu
  • Brigade: 16 Austrian bns, 20 Austrian sqns, 2 Émigré sqns, 18 guns

References

• Book: Smith, Digby. Digby Smith. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book . London . Greenhill . 1998 . 1-85367-276-9. 86–7.

Further reading

The following are excellent sources for the first names and ranks of French and Austrian generals.

• Web site: Broughton, Tony . The Napoleon Series . 20 March 2015 . 2006 . Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815.
• Web site: Smith, Digby. Digby Smith. Kudrna, Leopold . Biographical Dictionary of all Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 . napoleon-series.org . 20 March 2015 .