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Chief Commander:<\/strong> General Michail Illarionovi\u010d Gole\u0161ni\u010dev-Kutuzov, 60 years old.<\/p>\n



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General Headquarters Chief (General Quarter Master):<\/strong> General Franz von Weyrother.<\/p>\n



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Vanguard of the 1st Column – the Austrian Kienmayer's Corps:<\/strong> Commander Lieutenant Marshal Michael free-born Kienmayer, 50 years old – approximately 6,800 men and 12 cannons, 5 Austrian infantry battalions and 23 cavalry squadrons, 10 companies of Russian Cossacks.<\/p>\n



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Unified Commander of the 1st 3 Columns was the Russian General Duke Fjodor Fjodorovitch (Fridrich Wilhelm) Buxhovden: 55 years old.<\/p>\n



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1st Column (Russian):<\/strong> Commander General Lieutenant Dimitrij Sergejevitch Dochturov, 49 years old – approximately 14,200 men and 60 cannons, 22 Russian infantry battalions, 2 companies of Cossacks.<\/p>\n



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2nd Column (Russian):<\/strong> Commander General Lieutenant Alexander Fjodorovitch (Louis-Alexandre) Duke de Langeron, 42 years old – approximately 12,000 men and 30 cannons, 17 Russian infantry battalions, 2 squadrons of Russian dragoons and companies of Cossacks.<\/p>\n



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3rd Column (Russian):<\/strong> Commander General Przybyszewski – approximately 9,500 men and 30 cannons, 18 Russian infantry battalions.<\/p>\n



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4th Column (mixed):<\/strong> Commanders Austrian General Kolowrat and Russian General Lieutenant Michail Andrejevitch Miloradovitch, 44 years old – approximately 16,000 men and 75 cannons, 15 Austrian infantry battalions and 12 Russian infantry battalions, 2 squadrons of Austrian dragoons.<\/p>\n



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5th Cavalry Column (mixed):<\/strong> Commanders Austrian Lieutenant Marshal Jan Josef, Duke of Lichtenstein, 45 years old, and Russian General Uvarov – approximately 7,000 riders and 24 cannons, 17 Austrian squadrons of heavy cavalry, 30 Russian squadrons of dragoons and light cavalry, 12 companies of Cossacks.<\/p>\n



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Allied Vanguard (Russian Bagration's Corps):<\/strong> Commander General Lieutenant Duke Petr Ivanovich Bagration, 40 years old – approximately 14,000 men and 42 cannons, 15 Russian infantry battalions, 33 cavalry squadrons and 15 companies of Cossacks.<\/p>\n



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Reserves – Russian Czar's Guard:<\/strong> Commander Archduke Konstantin Pavlovich, 26 years old, brother of the Czar – approximately 10,000 men and 40 cannons, 10 battalions of guard infantry and 17 squadrons of guard cavalry.<\/p>\n



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Estimated overall number of allied forces 90,000 men, of which approximately 16,000 were Austrian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The content of the allied armies 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-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}