Alpine Thunder:
The Battle of Zurich 1799

Orders of Battle

by Major Wilbur E. Gray, US Army

France

General Andri Massena Commanding

4th Division (General Mortier)

Brigade Drouet
53rd Demi-brigade (2 battalions/1877 men) 17th & 19th Companies, 1st Foot Artillery Regt (207 men)
8th Chasseurs a Cheval (2 squadrons/377 men)

Brigade Brunet:
50th Demi-brigade (3/2425)
108th Demi-brigade (2/2100)
2nd Company, 7th Light Artillery Regt (60)
1st Dragoons (2/172)

Division total: 7218 men

5th Division (General Lorge)

Brigade Gazan:
37th Demi-brigade (3/2411)
57th Demi-brigade (2 and Grenadiers/1 133)
18th Company, 1st Foot Artillery Regt (105)
2nd Company, 6th Foot Regt (47)
Artisans of Artillery (5)
4th & 6th Companies of the 1st Pontoon Bn and 5th & 8th of the 2nd Pontoon Bn (200)
13th Dragoons (4/584)
9th Hussars (4/519)

Brigade Bontemps:
1st Legion Helvetique (636)
10th Demi-brigade Legere (2/2312)
5th & 6th Companies, 2nd Light Artillery Regt (162)

Reinforcements from Other Divisions
57th Demi-brigade (2/1920)
100th Demi-brigade (2/1965)
4th Company, 7th Artillery Regt (60)

Brigade Quetard (Attached from 6th Division):
1st Demi-brigade Legere (2/1740)
2nd Demi-brigade (3/2635)

Total for Division: 16,434 men

6th Division (General Menard)

Brigade Heudelet
103rd Demi-brigade (2/1950)
46th Demi-brigade (2/2169)
53d Demi-brigade (1/449)
53rd Demi-brigade (1/449)
3rd,6th,12th,14th & 15th Companies, 2nd Foot Artillery Regt. (206)
17th Company, 3rd Foot Artillery Regt (50)
3rd & 13th Company, 7th Foot Artillery Regt (142)
7th Company, 3rd Pontoon Bn (117)
23d Chasseurs a Cheval (3/386)

Total for Division: 5479 men

Reserve Division (General Klein)


Two Battalions of Converged Grenadiers (1200)
102nd Demi-brigade (3/3106)
4th & 5th Companies, 6th Horse Artillery Regt (134)
2nd Dragoons (4/587)
17th Dragoons (4/501)
5th Chasseurs a Cheval (4/495)
7th Hussars (2/303)

Total for Division: 6327 men

Russia


Generalanchef A.M. Rimskii-Korsakov Commanding

Division of LTG Prince Gortchakov

On the Sihlfeld (MG Toutchkov):
Toutchkov (Sevesk) Musketeer Regt (2 bns/1354)
Selechov Converged Grenadier Bn (651 men)
Rachmanov Converged Grenadier Bn (580)
Potapov Converged Grenadier Bn (584)
Titov (5th) Jaeger Regt (2/703)
Fock (6th) Jaeger Regt on30)
Lykoshen (Soumy) Hussars (10/1245)
Borodin Oural Cossacks (467)
Ten artillery pieces

At Wollishofen (MG Essen)
Essen (Vyborg) Musketeer Regt (2/1327)
Sacken (Ekaterinoslav) Grenadier Regt (1/770)
Schlepev (St Petersburg) Dragoons (1/140)

At Wipkingen
Schlepev (St Petersburg) Dragoons (4/552)
Six artillery pieces

Garrison of Zurich Sacken:
(Ekaterinoslav) Grenadier Regt on70)

Total for Division: 10,330 including Gunners

Division of LTG Dourasov

North Bank of Limmat from Honng to Baden (MG Markov):
Treublut Converged Grenadier Bn (608)
Misinov Oural Cossacks with two guns (286)
Schkapski Converged Grenadier Bn with two guns (586)
Two Companies (?), Markov (Mourom) Musketeer Regt with two guns (1085 men)

North Bank of Limmat from Baden to Koblenz (MG Pouschtschin)
Pouschtschin (Perm) Musketeer Regt (2/1254)
Dourasov (Jaroslav) Musketeer Regt and two guns (2/1262)
Baranovski (Tartar) Horse Regt with eight guns (10/1081)
Astakov Don Cossack Regt with six guns (486)
Koumtschatski Don Cossack Regt (373)

Total for Division: 7840 including Gunners

Reserve Division of LTG Sacken (sent to reinforce von Hotze)


Rasournovski (Old Ingermanland) Musketeer Regt (2/1340)
Koslov (Staroskol) Musketeer Regt (2/1418)
Prczibyschevski (Kursk) Musketeer Regt (2/1390)
Ismailov (Schlusselburg) Musketeer Regt (2/1303)
Unknown number of guns

Total for Division: 5670 including Gunners

Cavalry Division of MG Goudovitsch (along the Rhine)


Goudovitsch (Kargopol) Dragoons (5/665)
Svjatschin (Moscow) Dragoons (5/648)
Czarina's Life Cuirassiers (5n29)
Woinov (Starodoub) Cuirassiers (5/725)
28 pieces of artillery (509)

Total for Division: 3276 men

Note

At this time, all Russian military units were named after their commanders in copy of Prussian practice. The traditional names are in parenthesis. Sources include Hennequin, Zwegintsov, Viskovatov and Miliutin.

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