Rivoli 1797 Campaign Order of Battle

Rivoli 1797 Campaign Order of Battle

In the Battle of Rivoli on 14 and 15 January 1797, the French Army of Italy led by Napoleon Bonaparte crushed the main Austrian army led by Jozsef Alvinczi. The battle occurred during the fourth Austrian attempt to relieve the Siege of Mantua. After crippling Alvinczi's army on the 14th, Bonaparte left Barthélemy Joubert and Gabriel Rey to finish off the Austrians and raced south with André Masséna to deal with a relief column led by Giovanni di Provera. On 16 January, Masséna, Pierre Augereau, and Jean Sérurier trapped Provera near the Mantua siege lines and forced his surrender.

France

• Army of Italy: Napoleon Bonaparte (48,610)^[1][2]
  • Division: André Masséna (8,851 including 2 cavalry regiments)
    • Brigade: Jean-Charles Monnier
    • Brigade: Guillaume Brune
    • Brigade: Charles Leclerc
  • Division: Pierre Augereau (8,665 including 4 cavalry regiments)
    • Brigade: Jean Guieu
    • Brigade: François Point
    • Brigade: Jean-Antoine Verdier
    • Brigade: Frédéric Walther (cavalry)
  • Division: Barthélemy Joubert (10,250 including 1 cavalry regiment)
    • Brigade: Honoré Vial
    • Brigade: Claude Lebley
    • Brigade: Thomas Sandos
  • Division: Gabriel Rey (4,156 including 2 cavalry regiments)
    • Brigade: Antoine Veaux
    • Brigade: Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers
    • Brigade: Joachim Murat
  • Division: Jean Sérurier (10,230 including 2 cavalry regiments)
    • Alexandre Dumas and Claude Dallemagne each led small divisions under the supervision of Sérurier. It is unknown which brigades were assigned to each division.
    • Brigade: Jean Davin
    • Brigade: Sextius Miollis
    • Brigade: André Monleau
    • Brigade: Emmanuel de Serviez
    • Brigade: Jean de La Salcette
  • Reserve: Bonaparte
    • Brigade: Charles Dugua (658 in 2 cavalry regiments)
    • Brigade: Claude Victor (1,800 including 1 cavalry regiment)
    • Brigade: Jean Lannes (2,000)

Austria

• Field Army: FZM Jozsef Alvinczi (28,022)^[3]
  • Independent columns:
    • Brigade 1: OB Franz de Lusignan (4,556)
      • 4,556 in 4 bns and 12 coys
    • Brigade 2: GM Anton Lipthay (5,065)
      • 5,065 in 4 bns and 6 coys
    • Brigade 3: GM Samuel Köblös (4,138)
      • 4,138 in 5 bns and 6 coys
    • Brigade 6: GM Josef Vukassovich (2,871)
      • 2,795 in 3 bns and 5 coys, 76 in 1/2 sqn
  • Division: FML Peter Quasdanovich
    • Brigade 4: GM Joseph Ocskay (3,521)
      • 2,692 in 4 bns, 829 in 8 sqns
    • Brigade 5: GM Heinrich XV, Prince of Reuss-Plauen (7,871)
      • 6,986 in 9 bns, 885 in 5-1/2 sqns
• Corps at Vicenza: GM Adam Bajalics (6,241)
  • 6,081 in 6 bns, 160 in 1 sqn
• Corps at Padua: FML Giovanni di Provera (9,097)
  • 8,379 in 10 bns, 718 in 8-1/2 sqns
• Corps at Borgo Valsugana: GM Anton Mittrowsky (3,570)
  • 3,497 in 4 bns, 73 in 1/2 sqn
• Mantua Garrison: FM Dagobert von Wurmser (18,493, including 9,800 fit for service)^[4]

Key

• FM: Feldmarschall, army commander
• FZM: Feldzeugmeister, army or corps commander
• FML: Feldmarschal-Leutnant, corps or division commander
• GM: General-major, brigade commander
• OB: Oberst or colonel
• bns: infantry battalions
• coys: light infantry companies
• sqns: cavalry squadrons

References

• Boycott-Brown, Martin. The Road to Rivoli. London: Cassell & Co., 2001. ISBN 0-304-35305-1
• Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-523670-9
• Fiebeger, G. J. (1911). The Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte of 1796–1797. West Point, New York: US Military Academy Printing Office.

Footnotes

1. Fiebeger, p 20
2. Boycott-Brown, p 494-495
3. Boycott-Brown, p 492.
4. Boycott-Brown, p 490

External links

• Austrian general names by Digby Smith, compiled by Leopold Kudrna
• French general names
• Rivoli: Austrian order of battle by Stephen Millar