{"id":40,"date":"2000-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/2000\/06\/27\/french-army\/"},"modified":"2000-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-06-27T00:00:00","slug":"french-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/french-army\/","title":{"rendered":"French army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chief Commander:<\/strong> Emperor Napoleon I. Bonaparte, 36 years old.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>General Headquarters Chief:<\/strong> Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>I. Corps:<\/strong> Commander Marshal Jean-Baptiste-Jules Barbadotte, 42 years old &#8211; approximately 12,300 men and 24 cannons, 2 infantry divisions: Rivaud and Drouet d&#39;Erlon.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>III. Corps:<\/strong> Commander Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout, 35 years old &#8211; approximately 6,000 men and 12 cannons, 1 infantry division: Friant, 1 dragoon division: Bourcier.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>IV. Corps:<\/strong> Commander Marshal Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult, 36 years old &#8211; approximately 24,000 men and 12 cannons, 3 infantry divisions: Saint-Hilaire, Vandamme and Legrand, 1 light cavalry division: Margaron.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>V. Corps:<\/strong> Commander Marshal Jean Lannes, 36 years old &#8211; approximately 13,000 men and 40 cannons, 2 infantry divisions: Caffarelli and Suchet.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cavalry Reserves (Murat&#39;s Corps):<\/strong> Commander Marshal Joachim Murat, 38 years old &#8211; approximately 7,000 to 9,000 cavalry troops and 9 cannons, 2 heavy cavalry divisions: Nansouty and d&#39;Hautpoul, 1 dragoon division: Walther, 1 light cavalry division: Kellermann.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reserves &#8211; The Emperor&#39;s Guard:<\/strong> Commander Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessi\u00e9res, 37 years old &#8211; approximately 5,500 men and 24 cannons.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grenadier Division:<\/strong> Commanders General Oudinot and General Duroc &#8211; approximately 5,500 men and 10 cannons, 1 dragoon division assigned: Beaumont.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total number of French:<\/strong> approximately 75,000 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The content of the French Army before the battle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}