Slavkov u Brna - Austerlitz
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Slavkov u Brna - Austerlitz |
[Prologue] [Three armies,
two strategies] [Before the Battle] [The
Battle]
[After the Battle] [Tradition]
THE FRENCH Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Napoleon I, Commander of General Headquarters, Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier.
I Corp - commander, Marshal Bernadotte, approximately 12,300 men and 24 cannons, - Two infantry divisions - Rivaud and Drouet d'Erlon.
III Corp - commander, Marshal Davout, approximately 6300 men and nine cannons, - One infantry division - Friant, one division of dragoons - Bourcier.
IV Corp - commander, Marshal Soult, approximately 24,000 men and 35 cannons, - Three infantry divisions - Saint-Hilaire, Vandamme and Legrand, one light cavalry division - Margaron.
V Corp - commander, Marshal Lannes, approximately 13,000 men and 40 cannons - Two infantry divisions - Caffarelli and Suchet.
Cavalry reserve (Murat's Corp) - commander, Marshal Murat, 7,000 - 9,000 cavalrymen and nine cannons, two heavy infantry divisions - Nansouty and d'Hautpoul, one division of dragoons - Walther, one light infantry division - Kellerman.
Reserve: imperial Guard - commander, Marshal Bessieres, approximately 5500 men and 23 cannons, Grenadier Division - commanders, Oudinot and Duroc, approximately 5500 men and ten cannons, One division of dragoons - Beaumont.
THE ALLIES Commander-in-Chief, General Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Commander of Allied Headquarters (General Staff Quarters), General Franz von Weyrother.
Vanguard of the 1st Column - Austrian Kienmayer Corp - commander, General Kienmayer, approximately 6800 men and 12 cannons (5 Austrian infantry battalions and 23 cavalry squadrons, plus 10 hundreds of Russian Cossacks);
lst Column (Russian) - commander, General Dokhturov, approximately 14,200 men and 60 cannons (22 Russian infantry batallions, two hundreds of Cossacks),
2nd Column (Russian) - commander, General Langeron, approximately 12,000 men and 30 cannons (17 Russian infantry battalions, two squadrons of Russian dragoons and two hundreds of Cossacks),
3rd Column (Russian) - commander, General Przybyszewski, approximately 9500 men and 30 cannons (18 Russian infantry battalions), The Allied commander of the first three columns was the Russian, General Buxhowden.
4th Column (mixed) - commanders: the Austrian General Kolowrat and the Russian General Miloradovich, approximately 16,000 men and 75 cannons (15 Austrian infantry battalions and 12 Russian, two squadrons of Austrian dragoons),
5th Cavalry Column (mixed) - commanders: the Austrian General Liechtenstein and the Russian General Uvarov, approximately 7,000 cavalrymen and 24 cannons (17 Austrian squadrons of heavy cavalry, 30 Russian squadrons of dragoons and light cavalry, 12 hundreds of Cossacks),
Allied vanguard (the Russian Bagration Corp) - commander, the Russian General Bagration, approximately 14,000 men and 42 cannons (15 Russian infantry battalions, 33 cavalry squadrons and 15 hundreds of Cossacks),
Reserve: Russian Tsar's Guard - commander Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, brother of the Tsar, approximately 10,000 men and 40 cannons (ten battalions of guard infantry and 17 squadrons of guard cavalry).
The total French force was approximately 75,000 men. The total Allied force is estimated at approximately 90,000 men, of which some 16,000 were Austrian.
On the side of the Allies, the battle was observed by the Austrian Emperor Francis I and the Russian Tzar Alexander I. The third emperor on the battlefied was Napoleon I. The battle has, therefore, come down through history as the "Battle of Three Emperors".