Note 145 — SECTION III: CHAPTER IV
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Dupont’s available force at this moment consisted of the following troops. The numbers given are their original strength, from which deductions must of course be made:—
Infantry—Barbou’s Division:
Chabert’s Brigade
4th Legion of Reserve (three batts.) 3,084
4th Swiss Regiment (one batt.) 709
Marines of the Guard (one batt.) 532
Pannetier’s Brigade
3rd Legion of Reserve (two batts.) 2,057
Garde de Paris (two batts.) 1,454
Schramm’s Brigade
Swiss regiments of Reding and Preux (four batts.) 2,000
Vedel’s Division:
Poinsot’s Brigade
5th Legion of Reserve (three batts.) 2,695
3rd Swiss Regiment 1,174
Cassagnes’s Brigade
1st Legion of Reserve (one batt.) [two batts. detached under Liger-Belair] 1,003
From Gobert’s Division:
6th Provisional Regiment (four batts.) 1,851
Cavalry—Frésia’s Division:
Privé’s Brigade
1st Provisional Dragoons 778
2nd ditto 681
Dupré’s Brigade
1st Provisional Chasseurs à Cheval 556
2nd ditto 623
Boussard’s Brigade
6th Provisional Dragoons 620
From Rigaud’s Brigade:
Half the 2nd Provisional Cuirassiers 341
Artillery, &c. (36 guns) 900
21,058
Allowing a deduction of 3,000 men for sick and previous losses, there remain 15,000 bayonets and 3,000 sabres.