Eylau order of battle

The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Eylau of the Napoleonic Wars.

French Army

Emperor Napoleon I of France

III Corps

Marshal Davout

Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Division


General of Division Morand
  • 13th Light Infantry
  • 17th Line Infantry
  • 30th Line Infantry
  • 51st Line Infantry
  • 61st Line Infantry
  • two foot batteries (13 guns)
Second Division


General of Division Friant
  • 33rd Line Infantry
  • 48th Line Infantry
  • 108th Line Infantry
  • 111th Line Infantry
  • one foot battery (8 guns)
Third Division


General of Division Gudin
  • 12th Line Infantry
  • 21st Line Infantry
  • 25th Line Infantry
  • 85th Line Infantry
  • one foot battery (8 guns)
Light Cavalry


General of Brigade Vialannes
  • 1st Chasseurs
  • 12th Chasseurs
Corps Artillery Reserve
  • three foot batteries, one horse battery (17 guns)

IV Corps

Marshal Soult

Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Division


General of Division Saint-Hilaire
  • 10th Light Infantry
  • 35th Line Infantry
  • 43rd Line Infantry
  • 55th Line Infantry
  • two foot batteries (12 guns)
Second Division


General of Division Leval
  • 24th Light Infantry
  • 4th Line Infantry
  • 28th Line Infantry
  • 46th Line Infantry
  • 57th Line Infantry
  • two foot artillery batteries (12 guns)
Third Division


General of Division Legrand
  • 26th Light Infantry
  • 18th Line Infantry
  • 75th Line Infantry
  • Tirailleurs Corses
  • Tirailleurs du Pô
  • two foot batteries (12 guns)
Corps Artillery Reserve one foot battery (6 guns)

VI Corps

Marshal Ney

Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Division


General of Division Marchand
Second Division


General of Division Gardanne
  • 25th Light Infantry
  • 27th Line Infantry
  • 50th Line Infantry
  • 59th Line Infantry
Light Cavalry


General of Brigade Colbert
  • 10th Chasseurs
  • 9th Hussars
Corps Artillery Reserve
  • four foot batteries, two horse batteries (24 guns)

VII Corps

Marshal Augereau

Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Division


General of Division Jacques Desjardin †
  • 16th Light Infantry
  • 14th Line Infantry
  • 44th Line Infantry
  • 105th Line Infantry
  • one foot and one horse battery (8 guns)
Second Division


General of Division Heudelet
  • 7th Light Infantry
  • 24th Line Infantry
  • 63rd Line Infantry
  • one foot and one horse battery (8 guns)
Light Cavalry


General of Brigade Antoine Durosnel
  • 20th Chasseurs
  • one horse battery (4 guns)
Corps Artillery Reserve
  • two foot batteries (16 guns)

Imperial Guard
Divisions Regiments and batteries
Infantry


Marshal Lefebvre
  • 1st Grenadiers à pied
  • 1st Chasseurs à pied
  • 2nd Chasseurs à pied
Imperial Guard Cavalry


Marshal Bessières
Artillery
  • two horse batteries (12 guns)

Reserve Cavalry

Marshal Murat

Divisions Regiments and batteries
First Cuirassier Division


General of Division Nansouty (absent)
  • 9th Cuirassiers
  • 11th Cuirassiers
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
Second Cuirassier Division


General of Division d'Hautpoul †
  • 1st Cuirassiers
  • 5th Cuirassiers
  • 10th Cuirassiers
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
First Dragoon Division


General of Division Klein
  • 1st Dragoons
  • 2nd Dragoons
  • 4th Dragoons
  • 14th Dragoons
  • 20th Dragoons
  • 26th Dragoons
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
Second Dragoon Division


General of Division Grouchy
  • 3rd Dragoons
  • 4th Dragoons
  • 6th Dragoons
  • 10th Dragoons
  • 11th Dragoons
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
Third Dragoon Division


General of Division Beaumont
  • 5th Dragoons
  • 8th Dragoons
  • 12th Dragoons
  • 16th Dragoons
  • 19th Dragoons
  • 21st Dragoons
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
Fourth Dragoon Division


General of Division Sahuc
  • 17th Dragoons
  • 18th Dragoons
  • 19th Dragoons
  • 21st Dragoons
  • one-half horse battery (3 guns)
Light Cavalry Division


General of Division Lasalle
  • 1st Hussars
  • 3rd Hussars
  • 5th Hussars
  • 13th Chasseurs
Light Cavalry Brigade


General of Brigade Wathier
Corps Artillery Reserve
  • one horse battery (8 guns)

Russian Army

General of Cavalry Count Bennigsen

Chief of Staff: Quartermaster-General, Major F.F. Steinheil


Second Division

Lieutenant General Count A.I. Ostermann-Tolstoi

Cavalry

Brigade MG (Major General) Kozhin

  • Leib Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
  • Kargopol Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Isum Hussars (10 sqs)
  • Ilowaiski 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
  • Efremov 3 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade MG A.Y. Masowski

  • Pavlovski Grenadiers ( 3 bns)
  • Rostov Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG N. Sukin 2

  • Petsburg Grenadiers (3 bns)
  • Eletz Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG I.A. Diven 3

  • 1st Jaegers (3 bns)
  • 20th Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Stavitsky 1

  • Battery Company Maj Osipov (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Talyzin (12 guns)
  • Light Company May Efremov (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Voyeikov (12 guns)
  • Horse Battery Col Stavitsky 1 (12 guns)

Engineers

1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Dreyer


Third Division

Lieutenant General Baron von der Osten-Sacken

Cavalry

Brigade MG Count P.P. von der Palen 3

  • Little Russian Cuirassers (5 sqs)
  • Kurland Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Ilowaiski 10 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
  • Papuzin Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade MG F.A. Ushakov 1

  • Tauride Grenadiers (3 bns)
  • Lithuanian Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG V.P. Titov 2

  • Kaporsk Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Muromsk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Prince Dolgorukov 5

  • Tschernigov Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Dnepr Musketeers (3 bns)
  • 21st Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col von Bril

  • Battery Company Col von Bril (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Kotlyarov (12 guns)
  • Light Company May Mitrofanov (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Strazhev (12 guns)
  • Horse Battery Col Pirogov (12 guns)
  • Pontoon Company of Captain Khoven

Engineers

  • 1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Afanas'ev 1


Fourth Division

Major General A.A. Somov

Cavalry

Brigade MG Baron Korf

  • St. George (Order) Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
  • Pskov Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Polish Horse (10 sqs)
  • Grekov 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
  • Grekov 18 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade MG Somov

  • Tula Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Tengisk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Arseniev 2

  • Tobolsk Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Polotzk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Barclay de Tolly

  • Kostroma Musketeers (3 bns)
  • 3rd Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Prince Yashvil 2

  • Battery Company Maj Savitsky (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Kudryavtsev (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Yushkov (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Brimmer (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Mikulin (12 guns)
  • Horse Company Col Prince Yashvil 2 (12 guns)

Engineers

  • Pontoon Company of Major Artsibashev
  • 1st Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Captain Gebner 1


Fifth Division

Lieutenant General N.A. Tuchkov I

Cavalry

Brigade MG Prince Golitsyn

  • Riga Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Kasan Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Elisabethgrad Hussars (10 sqs)
  • Lithuanian Horse (10 sqs)
  • Gordeev 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade ?

  • Sievsk Musketeers (3 bns)
  • [Kaluga Musketeers (3 bns) Detached to Prussians; not present]

Brigade MG Ivan Leontiev

  • Perm Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Mohilev Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade Col Priouda

  • 24th Jaegers (3 bns)
  • 25th Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Count Sievers

  • Battery Company Col Count Sievers (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Sigismund (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Klingenberg (12 guns)
  • Horse Company Maj Obleuhov 1st (12 guns)


Troops from the Sixth Division


From the Cavalry Brigade

  • Alexandria Hussars (10 sqs)
  • Popov 5 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

From the Infantry

Brigade MG K.F. Baggovut

  • Starooskol Musketeers (3 bns)
  • 4th Jaegers (3 bns)

From the Artillery Brigade

  • Battery Company Lt-Col Vasil’ev (12 guns)
  • Horse Company Col Merlin (12 guns)
  • Light Company in two Light platoons (12 guns)


Seventh Division

Lieutenant General D.S. Dokhturov

Cavalry

Brigade MG Chaplits

  • Moscow Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Ingermannland Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Pavlograd Hussars (10 sqs)
  • Malachov Cossacks (5 sotnias)
  • Andronov 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade MG A.V. Zapol'skii

  • Ekaterinoslav Grenadiers (3 bns)
  • Moscow Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Straton-Potapov

  • Vladimir Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Voronezh Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Markov 1

  • Pskov Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Azov Musketeers (3 bns)
  • 5th Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Ermolov

  • Battery Company Maj Ansio (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Shulman 2nd (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Kondratiev (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Panfilov (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Krivtsov (12 guns)
  • Horse Company Col Ermolov (12 guns)

Engineers

2nd Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company Maj Berg


Eighth Division

Lieutenant General P.K. Essen 3

Cavalry

Brigade MG P.F. Glebov-Streshnev

  • Petersburg Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Livland Dragoons (5 sqs)
  • Olviopol Hussars (10 sqs)
  • Kieselev Cossacks (5 sotnias)
  • Sysojev Cossacks (5 sotnias)

Infantry

Brigade MG Olsuf’ev 3

  • Moscow Grenadiers (3 bns)

[* Viburg Musketeers Detached; fought with Prussian Corps]

Brigade MG Engelhardt 1

  • Schlusselburg Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Staroingermannland Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Levitsky

  • Podolsk Musketeers (1 Musketeer bn)
  • Archangelgorod Musketeers (3 bns)
  • 7th Jaegers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Nowak 1

  • Battery Company Maj Nepeytsyn (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Kolotinski (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Tatpykov (12 guns)
  • Battery Company Maj Bastian 2d (12 guns)
  • Horse Company Col Nowak 1st (12 guns)

Engineers

2nd Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Maj Zapreev


Fourteenth Division

Major General Count N.M. Kamensky 2d

Cavalry

Brigade Col D.D. Sheplev [Brigade may not have been present]

  • Finland Dragoons (5 squadrons)
  • Mitau Dragoons (5 squadrons)
  • Grodno Hussars (10 squadrons) [Not present. Arrived at the army the day after the battle]

Infantry

Brigade MG Alekseev

  • Belozersk Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Ryazan Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Gersdorf

  • Uglits Musketeers (3 bns)
  • Sofia Musketeers (3 bns)

Artillery

Brigade Col Papkov 2

  • Battery Company Col Papkov 2d (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Vitovtov (12 guns)
  • Light Company Maj Green (12 guns)

Engineers

Pontoon Company of Major Rutkovski


Prussian artillery temporarily attached to the Russian Army's Right Flank at Eylau

Maj von Brockhausen

  • 12–pound Battery Brockhausen Nr 34 (8 guns)
  • 12-pound Battery Kulikke Nr 37 (8 guns)
  • 6-pound Battery Wedekind Nr 8 (10 guns)

Prussian Corps

General Staff

Organization
Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq's army at the Battle of Eylau
Division Division Commanders Units Strength
Avantgarde 50 cavalry from the Towarczys Regiment 50 Towarczys
40 cavalry from the Dragoon Regiment №6 "Auer" 40 dragoons
Dragoon Regiment №6 "Auer" (9 sqs) 9 sqds
Horse Battery №8 "Bredow" (8 guns) 8 guns
1st Division Major General Friedrich Otto von Diericke Grenadier Battalion "Fabecky"
Infantry Regiment №2 "Ruchel" 2 bns
Dragoon Regiment №7 "Baczko" 10 sqds
Cuirassier Regiment №4 "Wagenfeld" 4 sqds
½ Horse Battery №13 "Rentzel" 4 guns
2nd Division Major General Michael Szabszinski von Rembow Grenadier Battalion "Schlieffen"
Infantry Regiment №11 "Schoning" 2 bns
3rd Division Major General Kasimir von Auer Vyborg Musketeer Regiment (Russian) 3 bns
Towarczys Regiment 10 sqds
½ Horse Battery №10 "Decker" 4 guns
Rearguard Major General Moritz von Prittwitz ½ Fusilier Battalion №21 "Stutterheim" 2 coys
1st Battalion, Hussar Regiment №5 "Prittwitz" 5 sqds
½ Horse Battery №6 "Sowinski" 4 guns

Sources
  • Cowan, Coley E. "Winter Battle: Eylau 1807". Strategy & Tactics Magazine, number 228 (May/June 2005). ISSN 1040-886X
  • Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9
  • (in Russian) Vasil'ev, AA, "COMPOSITION of ALLIED TROOPS at EYLAU: List of the Allied Russian and Prussian troops participating in the Battle of Preussisch-Eylau January 26 and 27 (February 7 and 8) 1807", Imperator No. 11 pp. 11–14 (2007)
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