7th Chasseurs à Cheval 5/77
20th Chasseurs à Cheval 8/75
23rd Chasseurs à Cheval 10/167
24th Chasseurs à Cheval 10/174
6th Chevauléger Lancier 7/85
Provisional Heavy Regiment (Total 691) : Col Baillencourt
1st Carabiniers 9/91
2nd Carabiniers 10/184
1st Cuirassiers 9/119
5th Cuirassiers 7/96
8th Cuirassiers 7/51
10th Cuirassiers 7/101
Attached: 13th (Jérôme Napoléon) Hussars: 243 (These had been acting as the XI Corps cavalry).
Attached?: Polish Lancers (see Note 14).
Prussian Forces
I Prussian Corps Reserve Cavalry Commander: General von Jürgass.
Total: 3,300
Abteilung Jürgass:
Lithuanian Dragoon Regt (4 sqns).
1st East Prussian Dragoon Regt (4 sqns).
Abteilung Katzler:
Mecklenberg-Strelitz Hussars (4 sqns).
Brandenberg Hussars (5 sqns).
Brandenberg Uhlans (2 sqns).
East Prussian National Cav Regt (1 sqn).
Abteilung Henckel:
6 sqns of the 3rd and 5th Silesian
Landwehr Cav.
1 bn fusiliers.
Footnotes
[1] Macdonald to Berthier. Quoted in Weil. La Campagne de 1814. Vol 1. p.526
[2] Ibid. p.526.
[3] Ibid. p.529.
[4] York to Schwarzenberg. Ibid. p.528.
[5] Le Manuscrit des Carabiniers. p.267.
[6] Ibid. p.267.
[7] Ibid. p.267.
[8] Ibid. p.267.
[9] Pelet-Narbonne. Geschichte der Brandenberg-Preussischen Reiterei . p.126.
[10] Weil. op. cit. Vol II. p.141.
[11] Weil quoting Lt Col (later Lt Gen) von Sohr’s account. Von Sohr was the commanding officer of the Brandenberg Hussars. Vol II. footnote.p.142.
[12] Pelet-Narbonne. op. cit. p.127.
[13] Le Manuscrit des Carabiniers. p.268.
[14] Weil. op. cit. p. 142.
[15] I am not clear on the Prussian reference to ‘Polish’ Lancers from whom they claim to have captured a standard. These could be a regiment of Polish Lancers that left the garrison of Vitry on the morning of the 1st Feb. These were 300 strong and had been raised by General Pac from the remains of the Polish troops who had stayed loyal to the French after Leipzig. However, Weil records that after leaving Vitry they headed towards Brienne to join Napoleon, which would have taken them away from Macdonald’s troops. Instead, they could be referring to the French 6th Chevauléger Lanciers of the Provisional Light Regiment and just submitting to a tendency to call all lancers ‘Polish’?!
[16] Weil. op. cit. pp.142-143.
[17] Weil. op. cit. p.143.
[18] Report of Gen von Jürgass on the
combat at La Chaussée, dated Châlons-sur-Marne, 5 Feb; York to Schwarzenberg and to Blücher, La Chaussée, 2 Feb, 8pm – K.K.Kriegs Archiv, II, 5b and II 121a. Quoted in Weil. p.143.
[19] Weil. op. cit. p.143.
[20] Weil. op. cit. p.144.
[21] York to Schwarzenberg, La Chaussée, 2 Feb, 8pm. K.K.Kriegs Archiv, II, 56.
Quoted in Weil. p.144.
[22] Weil. op. cit. p.144.
[23] Weil quoting Lt Gen von Sohr. Footnote. p.145.
[24] Numbers are officers/men.
Bibliography
Recollections of Marshal Macdonald.
Correspondance de Napoleon.
Le Manuscrit des Carabiniers.
Weil. La Campagne de 1814. Vols I and II.
Koch. Memoirs de la Campagne de 1814 .
Masson. Cavaliers de Napoleon .
Smith. Napoleon’s Regiments .
Pelet-Narbonne. Geschichte der Brandenberg-Preussischen Reiterei.
Cavalry Combat at La Chaussee 3rd February 1814
Cavalry Combat at La Chaussee Part 2: 3rd February 1814 by Andrew Field, UK
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