Sacile 1809 order of battle

The Battle of Sacile on 16 April 1809 saw the Franco-Italian Army of Italy commanded by Eugène de Beauharnais attack Archduke John of Austria's Army of Inner Austria. In the morning, the Austrians successfully held off Franco-Italian assaults on their left flank. Later in the day, John counterattacked to drive Eugène's troops from the battlefield. The battle at Sacile was preceded by the action of Pordenone on 15 April in which the Austrian advance guard mauled the French rear guard. The Austrian victory compelled Eugène to withdraw to the Adige River at Verona where he gathered reinforcements and planned a counteroffensive.

Franco-Italian Army Order of Battle

Franco-Italian Army at Sacile

Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène de Beauharnais

Army of Italy: Eugène de Beauharnais [1]

Jean-Baptiste Broussier
Jean Broussier
Paul Grenier
Paul Grenier
Gabriel Barbou des Courières
Gabriel Barbou
Color oval portrait of a gray-haired man in a dark blue military coat with a red collar
Louis Michel Sahuc

Not present at Sacile

Portrait of a clean-shaven man in the elaborate court costume of the early 1800s
Achille Fontanelli
Color print of a man with long sideburns in a dark military uniform with gold collar and epaulettes
Jean Lamarque
Print of a balding man with an aristocratic look wearing an elaborate military uniform
Emmanuel Grouchy
Print of a man with a deep scar in his left cheek and a damaged right eye who is dressed in an early 1800s general's uniform
Pierre Durutte

Austrian Army Order of Battle

Print of balding man with large eyes in a gray uniform
Archduke John

Army of Inner Austria: General der Kavallerie Archduke John of Austria[5]

Print of Johann Maria Philipp Frimont in a white military uniform with one row of buttons
Johann Frimont
Print of a curly-haired man in a splendid hussar uniform
Ignaz Gyulai

Notes

  1. ↑ Bowden, Scotty & Tarbox, Charlie. Armies on the Danube 1809. Arlington, Texas: Empire Games Press, 1980. 101–103. Bowden estimates 700-man French battalion strengths. This would have given Eugène a 10,000-man superiority, which was not the case.
  2. ↑ Schneid, Frederick C. Napoleon's Italian Campaigns: 1805–1815. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2002. ISBN 0-275-96875-8. 71. Schneid mentions the 35th in his account of the battle but omits it in his order of battle.
  3. ↑ Schneid, Frederick C. Napoleon's Italian Campaigns: 1805–1815. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2002. ISBN 0-275-96875-8. 181-182. Schneid places this unit in Abbé's brigade.
  4. ↑ Bowden & Tarbox, 102-103
  5. ↑ Schneid, 182–183. Schneid and Smith both list the Austrian order of battle (OOB) for Sacile. Schneid's OOB is used with cited exceptions.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Bowden & Tarbox, 108
  7. ↑ Schneid, 71. Schneid's order of battle only lists Schmidt's brigade, but his narrative lists Wetzel's brigade also. The author also gives Frimont four unnamed cavalry regiments.
  8. ↑ Nagy, Istvan. napoleon-series.org Austrian Cavalry Regiments and Their Commanders 1792–1815: The Hussars. Nagy lists Fulda as the colonel of the Ott Hussars in 1808–1809. Schneid names Fulda a General-Major, but he is not on the Smith & Kudrna list of Austrian generals.
  9. ↑ Arnold, James R. Napoleon Conquers Austria. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0-275-94694-0. 99. Arnold states that Fulda was killed.
  10. ↑ Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9. 300. Bowden & Tarbox and Schneid do not list Sebottendorf's brigade.

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