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==Opposing forces== {{main|Six Days' Campaign order of battle}} ===Army of Silesia=== [[File:Blücher (nach Gebauer).jpg|thumb|200px|Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, commander of the Army of Silesia.]] During the battle of Vauchamps on 14 February, Prussian Field-Marshal [[Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher]], commander of the combined Prusso-Russian Army of Silesia could count on 20,000<ref name=Tulard/> to 21,500 men, from three army corps:<ref>A Prussian brigade comprised several regiments and was roughly equivalent in strength to a French or Russian division.</ref> * II (Prussian) Corps, commanded by General [[Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf]]: ** 10th brigade under [[George Dubislaw Ludwig von Pirch]] ** 11th brigade under [[Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten]] ** 12th brigade under [[Prince Augustus of Prussia]] ** Cavalry brigade under von Hacke ** Cavalry brigade under von Röder ** Reserve artillery under Braun * IX (Russian) Corps: ** 9th division under Udom II * X (Russian) Corps under General [[Peter Mikhailovich Kaptzevich]]: ** 8th division under Prince Urusov (or Orosov) ** 22nd division under Turchaninov<ref name=Pigeard886/><ref name="Mir63-64">Mir 2009, p. 63-64.</ref><ref name="Mir79">Mir 2009, p. 79.</ref> Kleist's II Corps numbered 13,500 men while Kaptzevich's X Corps counted 6,500. There were also 1,500 troops from IX Corps who survived the Battle of Champaubert. These were grouped into three or four temporary battalions and an artillery battery. The rump of IX Corps lost 600 men and all of its guns on the evening of 14 February. II Corps had eight 6-pound batteries and two 12-pound batteries. Each battery had eight guns or a total of 80 cannons. There was also a howitzer battery of unknown strength, with X Corps having three batteries attached.{{sfn|Nafziger|2015|pp=608–609}} ==={{lang|fr|Grande Armée}}=== [[File:Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Google Art Project.jpg|200px|thumb|Napoleon Bonaparte, [[Emperor of the French]], commander of the French forces]] Napoleon had sent orders for a major concentration of forces, which resulted in a force of some 25,000 men being assembled in this sector.<ref name=Tulard/> However, of these men, only 19,000 soldiers got to the battlefield in time, with no more than 10,000 men engaged in the actual fighting:<ref name=Pigeard886/> * VI Corps, commanded by [[Marshal of the Empire]] [[Auguste de Marmont]]: ** 3rd Division under [[Joseph Lagrange (soldier)|Joseph Lagrange]] ** 8th Division under [[Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard]] ** Reinforcements temporarily attached: 7th division under [[Jean François Leval]] * Cavalry, commanded by General [[Emmanuel de Grouchy]]: ** Division [[Antoine Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain]] ** Division [[Jean-Pierre Doumerc]] ** Division [[Étienne Tardif de Pommeroux de Bordesoulle]] * [[Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)#Cavalry regiments|Guard cavalry]], commanded by General [[Etienne de Nansouty|Étienne de Nansouty]]: ** 2nd Division under [[Charles, comte Lefebvre-Desnouettes]], ** 3rd Division under [[Louis Marie Levesque de Laferrière]]. * [[Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)#Artillery of the Guard|Guard artillery]] under [[Antoine Drouot]]. * [[Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)#Foot regiments|Guard infantry]], under Marshal, Prince of the Moskowa [[Michel Ney]] (Reinforcements not engaged): ** 1st (Old Guard) division under [[Louis Friant]], ** 2nd (Young Guard) division under [[Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial]].<ref name=Pigeard886/><ref name=Mir63-64/><ref name=Mir79/><ref>Thoumas, p. 49.</ref> Grouchy's [[I Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée)|I Cavalry Corps]] and [[II Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée)|II Cavalry Corps]], each of two divisions, numbered a combined 3,600 horsemen. The two Guard cavalry divisions together counted 3,300 troopers. The 1st Old Guard Division had 4,000 men and the 2nd Old Guard Division had 3,000. The 1st Young Guard Division was made up of 4,000 soldiers while the 2nd Young Guard Division had 2,500 troops. Marmont's two divisions could muster only 3,000 men. [[Jean François Leval]]'s 7th Division comprised 4,500 soldiers. Of these forces, only the cavalry, Marmont's infantry and one battalion of the Old Guard were actually engaged in the fighting. The others were marching along behind.{{sfn|Nafziger|2015|pp=170–171}}
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