Editing Battle of Novi (1799) (section)

===French Army===
[[File:Dominique-Catherine Pérignon.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|alt=Black and white print of a bald man with a cleft chin. He wears a dark military uniform of a later period with much gold lace. The deep scar over his left eye was from a saber cut during the Battle of Novi.|Dominique Pérignon]]

According to one authority Joubert's army numbered 32,843 infantry and 2,087 cavalry for a total of 34,930 men. Saint-Cyr stated the army was 34,000-strong but in another place gave a strength of 35,487 foot and 1,765 horse, or a total of 37,252 men not counting artillery. According to [[Spencer C. Tucker]], the total French force amounted 35,000.{{sfn|Tucker|2009|page=1008}} The French supply arrangements had collapsed and the troops were tired, thirsty and starving. Some soldiers were reduced to eating grass and leaves.<ref name=Duffy138>Duffy (1999), p. 138</ref> Pérignon's wing consisted of the infantry divisions of Grouchy and [[Louis Lemoine]] plus a two-brigade infantry reserve and [[Antoine Richepanse]]'s cavalry reserve. All [[demi brigade]]s had two battalions each except where otherwise noted. Grouchy's 5,620-man division had a first brigade under [[Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean]] made up of the 39th and 92nd [[Line Infantry]] Demi Brigades and one battalion of the 26th Light Infantry Demi Brigade. The second brigade of [[Henri François Marie Charpentier]] consisted of the 93rd and 99th Line Demi Brigades. Lemoine's 6,410-strong division included a first brigade under Louis Garreau with the 26th Line and 80th Line and one battalion of the 5th Light and a second brigade under [[Jean Mathieu Seras]] counting the 20th Light and 34th Line. The three squadron strong 1st Hussar Regiment was attached to Lemoine. The 4,875-man reserve included [[Bertrand Clausel]]'s brigade with the 29th Light and 74th Line and [[Louis Partouneaux]]'s brigade with the 105th Line and one battalion of the 26th Light. Richepanse commanded 1,002 sabers in the 2nd [[Chasseurs à Cheval]], 12th Dragoon, and the 1st, 3rd and 18th Cavalry Regiments. Each regiment counted two squadrons.<ref name=Duffy137>Duffy (1999), p. 137</ref><ref name=Smith163b>Smith (1998), p. 163. Smith provided the numbers of battalions and squadrons in the French army.</ref>

Saint-Cyr's wing comprised the infantry divisions of [[Pierre Garnier de Laboissière]], [[François Watrin]] and [[Jean Henri Dombrowski]], a strong independent brigade under Louis Léonard Colli-Ricci, plus infantry and cavalry reserves. Laboissière's division numbered between 3,645 and 3,976 men in six battalions and had the three squadron strong 6th Hussar Regiment attached. [[François Jean Baptiste Quesnel]]'s brigade included the 17th Light and 63rd Line Demi Brigades while [[Gaspard Amédée Gardanne]]'s brigade counted the 18th Light and 21st Line Demi Brigades. Watrin's division had between 4,535 and 6,040 soldiers in 10 battalions including the attached 25th Chasseurs à Cheval of two squadron strength. André Calvin's advanced guard counted the 8th, 15th and 27th Light and 2nd Line, Antoine Arnaud's brigade consisted of the 12th and 30th Light and {{ill|Pierre Étienne Petitot|lt=Pierre Étienne Petitot's|fr|Pierre Étienne Petitot|vertical-align=sup}} brigade had the 62nd and 78th Line. Dombrowski's division counted between 2,130 and 2,340 troops in seven battalions. Dombrowski's units were the 17th and 55th Line, the [[Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)|Polish Legion]] including a cavalry squadron and two battalions of the 1st (Italian) Cisalpine. Colli commanded from 3,878 to 4,260 men consisting of two battalions each of the 14th, 24th and 68th Line plus a battalion of Poles. The infantry reserve had 2,420 soldiers in four battalions of the 3rd and 106th Line. {{ill|François Guérin d'Etoquigny|lt=François Guérin d'Etoquigny's|fr|François Guérin d'Etoquigny|vertical-align=sup}} cavalry reserve numbered 425 sabers in five squadrons of the 16th and 19th Dragoons and 19th Chasseurs à Cheval.<ref name=Duffy137/><ref name=Smith163b/>