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===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}}
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