Battle of Messkirch order of battle


The Battle of Messkirch on 5 May 1800 was the major engagement in the War of the Second Coalition. It followed the Battle of Stockach on 3 May. The campaign began on 25 April when a French force emerged from the Kehl bridgehead. This marked the start of the offensive of Jean Victor Marie Moreau's Army of the Rhine against Paul Kray's army of Habsburg Austria and its Bavarian, Württemberg and other German allies.

French Army

Headquarters

Commanding General: General-in-Chief Jean Victor Marie Moreau
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Right Wing

General of Division Claude Lecourbe in Zürich
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Center

General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr in Basel
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Left Wing

General of Division Gilles Joseph Martin Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne in Strasbourg
  • General of Division Claude-Sylvestre Colaud
  • *Generals of Brigade: Jean-Laurent-Justine Lacoste, Jean Pierre Girard-Vieux
  • **48th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **10th Cavalry Regiment
  • **16th Cavalry Regiment
  • **20th Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Division: Joseph Souham
  • *Generals of Brigade: Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, Jacques-Pierre-Louis Puthod
  • **8th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **95th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **7th Cavalry Regiment
  • **6th Dragoon Regiment
  • **1st Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Division: Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand
  • *Generals of Brigade: Jacques Denis Boivin, Jean-Baptiste Drouet
  • **7th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **27th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **13th Dragoon Regiment
  • **6th Chasseurs a Cheval Regiment
  • General of Division Henri François Delaborde
  • *Generals of Brigade: Jean-Pierre-Portschy Mercier, Henri-Joseph Thüring de Ryss
  • **29th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **65th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **2nd Helvétique Légion
  • **4th Cavalry Regiment
  • **19th Cavalry Regiment
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Reserve

General-in-Chief Moreau
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Detached

  • General of Division Louis-Antoine Choin de Montchoisy in Switzerland
  • *Generals of Brigade: Joseph Antoine Mainoni, Théodore Chabert
  • **1st Light Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **9th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **28th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **44th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **102nd Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **14th Cavalry Regiment
  • **22nd Cavalry Regiment
  • General of Division Jean François Leval
  • *Unbrigaded:
  • **65th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **91st Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **110th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **1st Helvétique Légion
  • **3rd Hussar Regiment
  • General of Division François Xavier Jacob Freytag
  • *Unbrigaded:
  • **29th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **95th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **3rd Helvétique Légion
  • General of Division Joseph Gilot
  • *Unbrigaded:
  • **1st Dragoon Regiment
  • **6th Hussar Regiment
  • General of Division Alexandre Paul Guérin de Chateaunef-Randon
  • *Unbrigaded:
  • **80th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **Polish Danube Legion
  • **15th Cavalry Regiment
  • **24th Cavalry Regiment
  • General of Division Antoine Laroche Dubouscat
  • *Unbrigaded:
  • **20th Line Infantry Demi Brigade
  • **North French Legion
  • **16th Cavalry Regiment
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