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===Allied Army=== [[File:Miloradovich.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|alt=Painting of a middle-aged man with curly hair and sideburns. He wears a dark military coat with a high collar and epaulettes and a number of decorations.|Mikhail Miloradovich]] Kray's corps was divided into two Austrian divisions under Bellegarde and [[Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz]]. The brigade commanders were Friedrich Joseph Anton von Bellegarde, [[Friedrich Heinrich von Gottesheim]], Ferdinand Minckwitz and Alexander Friedrich von Seckendorff. Except for the last-named, it is not clear in which division the brigadiers served. Ott's left division included three battalions each of the ''Deutschmeister'' Nr. 4, ''Terzy'' Nr. 16 and ''Mittrowsky'' Nr. 40 Infantry Regiments, two battalions of the ''[[Josef Philipp Vukassovich|Vukassovich]]'' Nr. 48 Infantry Regiment, one battalion of the ''Szluiner'' [[Grenz Infantry]] Regiment Nr. 4, and six squadrons of the ''Archduke John'' [[Dragoon]] Regiment Nr. 3. Ott commanded 9,979 infantry and 906 cavalry for a total of 10,885.<ref name=Duffy136>Duffy (1999), pp. 136–137</ref><ref name=Smith163a>Smith (1998), p. 163. Smith gave the Austrian regiment numbers and brigadiers.</ref> [[File:Pal Kray.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|alt=Black and white oval print of a serious young man in a white military coat with wide lapels. His hair comes down to his collar.|Baron Paul Kray]] Bellegarde's division consisted of three battalions each of the ''Sztáray'' Nr. 33 and ''Nádasdy'' Nr. 39 Infantry Regiments, two battalions each of the ''Huff'' Nr. 8, ''Kheul'' Nr. 10, ''Gyulai'' Nr. 32 and ''Lattermann'' Nr. 45 Infantry Regiments, six squadrons of the ''Kaiser'' Dragoon Regiment Nr. 1 and eight squadrons of the ''Archduke Joseph'' Hussar Regiment Nr. 2. This force numbered 11,796 foot and 1,724 horse or a strength of 13,520 troops. To Bellegarde's right was a screening force under Seckendorff which was made up of two battalions of the ''Oranien'' Nr. 15 Infantry Regiment, one battalion of the ''Szluiner'' Grenz and three squadrons of the Hussar Regiment Nr. 5. The screening force counted 2,491 infantry and 524 cavalry or a total of 3,015 soldiers. Kray wielded a total of 27,420 troops in his large corps.<ref name=Duffy136/><ref name=Smith163a/> On the Allied left, Melas commanded [[Michael von Fröhlich]]'s 8,575-strong Austrian division. The division consisted of more than 3,660 grenadiers in nine battalions, six squadrons each of the ''Lobkowitz'' Nr. 10 and ''Levenehr'' Nr. 14 Dragoon Regiments, 1,258 sabers, three battalions of the ''Fürstenberg'' Infantry Regiment Nr. 36, 2,081 men, and two battalions of the ''Stuart'' Infantry Regiment Nr. 18, 1,576 troops. One brigadier was [[Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein]], though the troops under his command are not given.<ref name=Duffy136/><ref name=Smith163a/> [[Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan]] led the ''Fürstenberg'', ''Morzin'', ''Paar'', ''Pertusi'' and ''Weber'' Grenadier Battalions and [[Johann Ludwig Alexius von Loudon]] commanded the ''[[Hohenfeld_(surname)|Hohenfeld]]'', ''Goeschen'', ''Schiaffinatti'' and ''Weissenwolff'' Grenadier Battalions. [[Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky]] directed two of the ''Fürstenberg'' infantry battalions and two squadrons of the ''Lobkowitz'' Dragoons while Johann Benedikt Nobili led the two ''Stuart'' infantry battalions and two more squadrons of the ''Lobkowitz'' Regiment.<ref name=Duffy144>Duffy (1999), pp. 144–145</ref> [[File:Marechal-Gouvion.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|alt=Painting shows a young man with long brown hair. He wears a dark blue military coat with wide white lapels.|Laurent Saint-Cyr]] Derfelden's 15,552-man Russian corps was divided into a division under Derfelden himself, a second division led by [[Mikhail Miloradovich]] and an Advance Guard led by Bagration. The Advance Guard consisted of two battalions each of the ''Bagration'' and ''Miller'' [[Jäger (military)|Jäger]] Regiments, 1,189 foot, the ''Dendrygin'', ''Lomonosov'', ''Sanaev'' and ''Kalemin'' Combined Grenadier Battalions, 1,728 foot, the ''[[Adrian Karpovich Denisov|Denisov]]'', ''Sychov'', ''Grekov'' and ''Semernikov'' [[Cossack]] Regiments, 1,948 horse, and six squadrons of the Austrian ''[[Andreas Karaczay|Karaczay]]'' Dragoon Regiment Nr. 4, 840 horse. Altogether, the 5,705-man Advance Guard counted 2,917 infantry and 2,788 cavalry. Derfelden's 6,127-strong infantry division included two battalions each of the ''[[Yakov Ivanovich Povalo-Shveikovsky|Schveikovsky]]'', ''Förster'', ''Tyrtov'' and ''Baranovsky'' Musketeer Regiments and two battalions of the ''Rosenberg'' Grenadier Regiment. Miloradovich's 3,720-man infantry division had two battalions each of the ''Jung-Baden'', ''Dalheim'' and ''Miloradovich'' Musketeer Regiments. The strength of Suvorov's Austro-Russian army was 44,347 foot and 7,200 horse, a total of 51,547 soldiers, not counting gunners and sappers.<ref name=Duffy136/><ref name=Smith163a/>
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