Note 451 — SECTION VII: CHAPTER IV
Reading edition
The figures here given are mainly those indicated by Napoleon in his dispatch of Nov. 8 (Nap. Corresp., 14,456), supplemented from the morning state of the army on Oct. 10:—
2nd Corps (Marshal Soult):
Division Mouton (Merle) 6,000
Division Bonnet 4,500
Division Merle (Verdier) 7,000
Cavalry of Lasalle 2,000
2nd Corps (Marshal Soult):
Division Marchand } 17,000
Division Lagrange (late Bisson)
Cavalry of Colbert (detached at this moment) 2,000
From King Joseph’s Reserve, Division Dessolles 6,000
Imperial Guard, fourteen battalions of infantry 8,000
Imperial Guard, cavalry 3,500
Cavalry Brigade (Beaumont) belonging to the 1st Corps 1,200
Latour-Maubourg’s Division of Dragoons (six regiments) 3,700
Milhaud’s Division of Dragoons (three regiments) 2,500
Franceschi’s Light Cavalry (four regiments) 2,000
Lahoussaye’s Division of Dragoons (four regiments) 2,000
Total 67,400