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== French Order of Battle == The French Army of Sambre-and-Meuse that fought at the Roer River was made up of elements from three armies that had been assembled to fight at Fleurus–the right wing of the Army of the North, the Army of the Ardennes, and the left wing of the Army of the Moselle. Formally constituted as an army on 29 June under the command of Jourdan, the Army after the battle of Sprimont consisted of some 120,000 men in three corps, with the left wing under [[Jean-Baptiste Kléber|Jean-Baptiste Kleber]], the right under Barthelemy Scherer, and the centre under Jourdan’s personal command.<ref name=Hayworthbook>>{{cite book |last1=Hayworth |first1=Jordan R. |title=Revolutionary France's War of Conquest in the Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797 |date=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge}}</ref>{{rp|135}} Days after Sprimont, Jourdan detached some 15,000 men under Philibert Duhesme to besiege Maastricht. The remaining 105,000 men remaining were organised in divisions as follows:<ref name=Hayworthdissert>{{cite book |last1=Hayworth |first1=Jordan R. |title=Conquering the Natural Frontier: French Expansion to the Rhine River During the War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797 |date=2015 |publisher=University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library |location=Denton, Texas}}</ref>{{rp|248}} Left Wing (Kleber) * [[Charles XIV John|Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]] * [[Louis Friant]] * Joseph Leonard Richard Centre (Jourdan) * [[François Joseph Lefebvre|Francois Lefebvre]] * [[Jean-Étienne Championnet|Jean-Etienne Championnet]] * [[Antoine Morlot]] * [[Jacques Maurice Hatry|Jacques-Maurice Hatry]] * [[Pierre Joseph Dubois]] (cavalry division) Right Wing (Scherer) * [[François Séverin Marceau|Francois Severin Marceau]] * Jean Adam Mayer * Honore Alexandre Hacquin
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