The Battle of Teugen-Hausen
19 April 1809

Order of Battle

By Grant Elliott
Maps by Derek Stone
Battlefield photographs by Ian Castle
Re-fight photographs by Grant Elliott


Austrian 3rd Korps

FML Hohenzollern

Advance Guard: FML Vukassovich

    2nd Btn 9th Peterwardeiner Grenz and staff 1,160 veterans
    1st Btn Archduke Charles Legion 490 trained
    4 Sqdns, 3rd Archduke Ferdinand Hussars 520 veterans
    Cavalry Battery (4 x 6pdrs, 2 x howitzers) 6 guns

Division: FML Lusignan

    Brigade: GM Kayser
    2 & 2/3 Btns I R7, Schr^der (less 13 and 14 coys) 2,860 trained
    2 & 5/6 Btns IR56 Colloredo (less 12 coy) 2,940 trained
    Brigade battery (8 x 6pdrs)8 guns

Division: FML Saint Julien

    Brigade: GM Alois Lichtenstein
      2 & 2/3 Btns IR12 Manfredini (less 13 and 14 coys) 2,670 trained
      2 Btns IR23 WOrtemburg 1,630 trained
      Brigade battery 8 pieces

    Brigade: GM Bieber

      2 & 2/3 Btns IR20 Kaunitz (less 17 and 18 coys) 2,720 trained
      2 Btns IR38 Wurttemberg 1,950 trained
      Brigade battery 8 pieces
      2 Sqdns Ferdinand Hussars 260 veteran
      Cavalry artillery (section) 2 pieces
      Reserve Artillery (part): Oberst (Colonel) Smola 1 Brigade Battery
      1 & 1/2 Position battery (6 x 6pdrs, 2 x howitzers)
      1 12pdr battery (4 x 12pdrs, 2 x howitzers) Total, 22 pieces
      Pioneers 330
      Staff infantry 95
      Staff cavalry 37
      Total artillery crew 2,140

LOSSES

    Krieg: 100 officers and 3,758 men (18%); 4 guns
    Arnold: 3,463
    Petre: 3,846

I have counted the Legion as trained as the woodland fighting would have been to their liking, but command and control problems would have reduced their effectiveness. If they move into the open count as raw. GM Moritz Lichtenstein is not mentioned in the lists, but could go in with the Kaunitz Regiment.

Alois and Moritz Lichtenstein, Bieber, Lusignan and Vukassovich were all wounded - real front-line leadership. (Source: Krieg 1809, Vol. 1, p.385.)

French 3rd Corps (part)

Marshal Davout

4th Division: GD Saint Hilaire

    Brigade: GB Lorencez
      3 Btns 10 Legere2,500 veterans
      3 Btns 3 Ligne2,030 veterans
      3 Btns 57 Ligne 1,930 veterans

    Brigade: GB Destabenrath
      3 Btns 72 Ligne2,220 trained
      3 Btns 105 Ligne2,160 trained

2nd Division: GD Friant

    Brigade: GB Gilly
      2 btns 15 Legere 1,400 trained
      3 Btns 33 Ligne 2,100 veterans

    Brigade: GB Grandeau
      3 Bins 108 Ligne2,100 veterans
      3 Btns 111 Ligne 2,100 veterans

    Brigade: GB Barbanegre
      3 Btns 48 Ligne 2,100 veterans

3rd Division (part)

    Brigade: GB Petit
      3 Btns 12 Ligne 2,100 veterans
      3 Btns 21 Ligne 2,100 veterans

Corps artillery resources

    perhaps totalling some 36 pieces

Based on 'Armies on the Danube', pp.69, 70 All French general officers appear to have been very good. Petit and Friant are simplified and slightly reduced due to earlier combats. Veterans are taken as having fought at least three major battles, based on the relevant 'Osprey' books. Artillery would be mainly 6 and 8 pounder guns, and a battery of 4 pounders.

LOSSES

Krieg, p.394 gives a total of 3,300.
Saint Hilaire takes 73 officers and 1,750 men or 17% of the division,
Arnold has Gudin 80, Friant 317, Saint Hilaire 1,700, other 257, or 14%.
Petre shows over 4,376.
There were no wounded generals. View from the Buchberg looking south towards the Austrian position on the Hausener Berg The village of Teugen viewed from a position on the Buchberg, looking north

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