Toulouse 1814 Order of Battle

Toulouse 1814 Order of Battle

The Battle of Toulouse saw a French army led by Marshal Nicolas Soult defend the city of Toulouse against the Marquess of Wellington's British, Portuguese, and Spanish army. The fighting took place on 10 April 1814 and Soult evacuated the city late in the evening of 11 April after suffering defeat. Allied casualties in the bitter fighting exceeded French losses by more than a thousand. Official news of the end of the war did not reach Wellington until the afternoon of 12 April.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• Gen = General
• Lt Gen = Lieutenant-General
• Maj Gen = Major-General
• GD = général de division
• Brig Gen = Brigadier-General
• GB = général de brigade
• Col = Colonel
• Lt Col = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Capt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• (w) = wounded
• (mw) = mortally wounded
• (k) = killed in action
• (c) = captured

Anglo-Allied Army

Commander-in-Chief: Field Marshal the Marquess of Wellington^[1][2][3]

Cavalry Commander: Lt Gen Stapleton Cotton

Quartermaster-General: Maj Gen Sir George Murray

Adjutant-General: Maj Gen the Hon Edward Pakenham

Military Secretary: Capt (brevet Lt Col) Lord FitzRoy Somerset

Commander, Royal Artillery: brevet Lt Col Alexander Dickson

Commander, Royal Engineers: Lt Col Howard Elphinstone

Army total: 48,765 (40,325 infantry, 6,490 cavalry, 1,950 artillery)

Wellington's Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Light Division     Maj Gen Charles Alten     (4,275 total)	1st Brigade     Maj Gen James Kempt	1/43rd Foot 1/95th Rifles 3/95th Rifles 3rd Portuguese Caçadores
	2nd Brigade     Lt Col John Colborne	1/52nd Foot 2/95th Rifles 1st Portuguese Caçadores 17th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
3rd Division     Lt Gen Thomas Picton     (4,566 total)	1st Brigade     Maj Gen Thomas Brisbane	1/45th Foot 1/74th Foot 1/88th Foot 5/60th Rifles
	2nd Brigade     Col John Keane	1/5th Foot 2/83rd Foot 2/87th Foot 94th Foot
	3rd Brigade     Maj Gen Manley Power	9th Portuguese Line (2 bns) 21st Portuguese Line (2 bns) 11th Portuguese Caçadores
Cavalry Division     Maj Gen Henry Fane[4]     (1,707 total)	Heavy Cavalry Brigade     Col Clifton     (891 total)	1st Life Guards 2nd Life Guards Royal Horse Guards
	Light Cavalry Brigade     Col Doherty (vice Fane)     (816 total)	13th Light Dragoons 14th Light Dragoons
Unattached Cavalry Brigades     (2,127 total)	Heavy Cavalry Brigade     Lord Charles Manners     (1,426 total)	5th Dragoon Guards 3rd Dragoons 4th Dragoons
	Heavy Cavalry Brigade     Brig Gen Bülow[5]     (701 total)	1st KGL Dragoons 2nd KGL Dragoons
Artillery     (1,950 total)[6]		Turner's Battery, Royal Artillery (RA) Gardiner's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
Corps total: 14,625 (8,841 infantry, 3,834 cavalry, 1,950 artillery)

Freire's Corps (part of Spanish 4th Army)

Gen Manuel Freire^[7]

Division	Regiments and Others
Spanish 4th Division     Gen Marcilla     (3,959 total)	Corona Rivero Oviedo Cántabro Laredo Tiradores de Cantabria
Spanish 5th Division     Gen Espeleta     (3,576 total)	2º Asturias Guadalajara 6º Regimiento de Marina Voluntarios de Asturias Santiago
Artillery	Preto's Portuguese Battery Arriaga's Portuguese Battery
Corps total: 7,535 infantry

Hill's Corps

Lt Gen Sir Rowland Hill

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
2nd Division     Lt Gen the Hon Sir William Stewart     (6,940 total)	1st Brigade     Maj Gen John Byng	1/3rd Foot 1/57th Foot 1st Provisional Bn (2/31st and 2/66th Foot)
	2nd Brigade     Maj Gen Edward Barnes	1/50th Foot 1/71st Foot 1/92nd Foot
	3rd Brigade     Col the Hon Richard O'Callaghan	1/28th Foot 2/34th Foot 1/39th Foot
	Portuguese Brigade     Lt Col Henry Hardinge	6th Portuguese Line (2 bns) 18th Portuguese Line (2 bns) 6th Portuguese Caçadores
Portuguese Division     Maj Gen Carlos Le Cor     (3,952 total)	1st Brigade     Brig Gen Almeida	2nd Portuguese Line (2 bns) 14th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
	2nd Brigade     Maj Gen John Buchan	4th Portuguese Line (2 bns) 10th Portuguese Line (2 bns) 10th Portuguese Caçadores
Spanish 1st Division     Gen Pablo Morillo     (2,001 total)		León Vitoria Doyle
Artillery		Maxwell's Battery, RA Beane's Troop, RHA Da Silva's Portuguese Battery Michael's Portuguese Battery
Corps total: 12,893 infantry

Beresford's Corps

Marshal William Beresford

Division[8]	Brigade	Regiments and Others
4th Division     Lt Gen Galbraith Lowry Cole     (5,363 total)	1st Brigade     Maj Gen William Anson	3/27th Foot 1/40th Foot 1/48th Foot
	2nd Brigade     Maj Gen Robert Ross	1/7th Foot 1/20th Foot 1/23rd Foot
	Portuguese Brigade     Brig Gen José Vasconcellos	11th Portuguese Line 23rd Portuguese Line 7th Portuguese Caçadores
6th Division     Lt Gen Sir Henry Clinton     (5,693 total)	1st Brigade     Maj Gen Denis Pack	1/42nd Foot 1/79th Foot 1/91st Foot
	2nd Brigade     Maj Gen John Lambert	1/11th Foot 1/36th Foot 1/61st Foot
	Portuguese Brigade     Col James Douglas	8th Portuguese Line 12th Portuguese Line 9th Portuguese Caçadores
Cavalry     (2,656 total)	1st Hussar Brigade     Maj Gen Edward Somerset     (1,717 total)	7th Hussars 10th Hussars 15th Hussars
	2nd Hussar Brigade     Col Friedrich Arentschildt (vice Hussey Vivian[9])	1st Hussars KGL 18th Hussars
Artillery		Daniel's Battery, RA Brandreth's Battery, RA
Corps total: 13,712 (11,056 infantry, 2,656 cavalry)

French Army of Spain

Commander-in-Chief: Marshal Soult^[10][11]

Army total: 38,843 (31,793 infantry, 2,700 cavalry, 4,350 artillery)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division     GD Augustin Darricau     (3,490 total)	1st Brigade     GB Fririon	6th Légère (1 bn) 76th Ligne (1 bn) 69th Ligne (2 bns)
	2nd Brigade     GB Berlier	36th Ligne (2 bns) 39th Ligne (1 bn) 65th Ligne (2 bns)
2nd Division     GD Jean Darmagnac     (4,456 total)	1st Brigade     GB Leseur	31st Légère (2 bns) 51st Ligne (1 bn) 75th Ligne (2 bns)
	2nd Brigade     GB Menne	118th Ligne (3 bns) 120th Ligne (3 bns)
4th Division     GD Eloi Charlemagne Taupin (k)     (4,864 total)	1st Brigade     GB Rey[12]	12th Légère (2 bns) 32nd Ligne (2 bns) 43rd Ligne (2 bns)
	2nd Brigade     GB Gasquet	47th Ligne (2 bns) 55th Ligne (1 bn) 58th Ligne (1 bn)
5th Division     GD Jean-Pierre Maransin     (3,196 total)	1st Brigade     GB Barbot	4th Légère (1 bn) 40th Ligne (2 bns) 50th Ligne (1 bn)
	2nd Brigade     GB Rouget	27th Ligne (1 bn) 34th Ligne (1 bn) 59th Ligne (1 bn)
6th Division     GD Eugene-Casimir Villatte     (4,270 total)	1st Brigade     GB Saint-Pol	21st Légère (1 bn) 86th Ligne (1 bn) 96th Ligne (1 bn) 100th Ligne (1 bn)
	2nd Brigade     GB Lamorandière	28th Légère (1 bn) 103rd Ligne (1 bn) 119th Ligne (2 bns)
8th Division     GD Jean Isidore Harispe     (4,250 total)	1st Brigade     GB Dauture	9th Légère (2 bns) 25th Légère (2 bns) 34th Légère (2 bns)
	2nd Brigade     GB Baurot	10th Légère (2 bns) 45th Ligne (1 bn) 81st Ligne (1 bn) 115th Ligne (1 bn) 116th Ligne (1 bn) 117th Ligne (1 bn)
Reserve Division     GD Jean-Pierre Travot     (7,267 total)	1st Brigade     GB Pourailly	4 bns conscripts
	2nd Brigade     GB Vuillemont	4 bns conscripts
Cavalry Division     GD Pierre Benoît Soult     (2,700 total)	1st Brigade     GB Berton	2nd Hussars 13th Chasseurs à Cheval 21st Chasseurs à Cheval
	2nd Brigade     GB Vial	5th Chasseurs à Cheval 10th Chasseurs à Cheval 15th Chasseurs à Cheval 22nd Chasseurs à Cheval
Auxiliaries     (4,350 total)		Artillery, Engineers, Other
Army total: 38,843 (31,793 infantry, 2,700 cavalry, 4,350 artillery)

References

1. Smith, p 519. Note that Smith does not list the regiments suffering no losses.
2. Glover, p 358-359, p 382-387. Units not listed in Smith are inferred from Glover appendices 2 and 5.
3. Hope's Corps (1st and 5th Divisions) was besieging Bayonne.
4. Oman, p 372-373. Oman writes that Fane exercised command over both his own brigade and Clifton's.
5. Lipscombe (2010) has Arentschildt commanding this brigade, and Grüben commandingthe KGL Hussar brigade
6. This figure is the total for artillery across the three Anglo-Portuguese corps
7. The brigade of Morillo's Spanish 1st Division was also part of Freire's 4th Army, but operated under the command of Hill's corp for the battle (Lipscombe, 2010, p.349)
8. The 7th Division had been left in Bordeaux (Glover p. 324)
9. Oman, p 372. Vivian was wounded on 8 April.
10. Smith, p 500-501 and 518-519. For Toulouse, Smith lists the same unit totals as for Orthez. The following totals subtract the losses at Orthez given by Smith.
11. Glover, p 394. To these totals must be added one of Harispe's brigades (Brigade Paris?) which was broken up after Orthez and used to reinforce other units.
12. Chandler, p 377. Chandler writes that Louis Emmanuel Rey was a prisoner until May 1814. If this is correct, then this may be Gabriel Venance Rey.

Books

• Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-523670-9
• Glover, Michael. The Peninsular War 1807-1814. London: Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0-14-139041-7
• Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9
• Oman, Charles. Wellington's Army, 1809-1814. London: Greenhill, (1913) 1993. ISBN 0-947898-41-7
• Lipscombe, Nick (2010). The Peninsular War Atlas. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84908-364-9.