Tolentino order of battle
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This is an order of battle
for the Battle of Tolentino
that was fought on 2 May – 3 May 1815.
Austrian
Commander-in-chief
: Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Bianchi
Total strength: 11,938 men – 1452 horses – 28 guns
I Corps
Commander: Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Mohr
General staff
: Colonel Baron Fleischer, Major Kunerth, Captain Auer, Captain Muhlruer, Captain Potier
1st Brigade
Commander: General Count Staheremberg
General staff: Captain Spanoghi, Lieutenant Moker
Total: 2147 men – 540 horses – 6 guns
General Staff: General Staab, Major Startenthal, Captain Weingarten
Total: 4920 men – 70 horses – 8 guns
Total: 4048 men – 70 horses – 8 guns
Total: 823 men – 772 horses – 6 guns
Neapolitan
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Commander-in-chief
: King Joachim Murat
of Naples
General staff
: General Prince Campana, General Costa, General De Medici, Captain Caselli
Total strength: 25,588 men – 4,790 horses – 58 guns
Guard
Captain of the Guard: Lieutenant General Millet de Villeneuve
Infantry
Commander: General Prince Pignatelli Strongoli
Total: 4044 men – 250 horses – 10 guns
Cavalry
Commander: General Livron
Total: 1576 men – 1894 horses – 10 guns
Total: 8229 men – 210 horses – 10 guns
Total: 8010 men – 220 horses – 10 guns
Total: 1900 men – 500 horses
Total: 1849 men – 1716 horses
Order of battle
In modern use, the order of battle is the identification, command structure, strength, and disposition of personnel, equipment, and units of an armed force participating in field operations. Various abbreviations are in use, including OOB, O/B, or OB, while ORBAT remains the most common in the...
for the Battle of Tolentino
Battle of Tolentino
The Battle of Tolentino was fought on 2 – 3 May 1815 near Tolentino, in what is now Marche, Italy: it was the decisive battle in the Neapolitan War, fought by the Napoleonic King of Naples Joachim Murat to keep the throne after the Congress of Vienna. The battle itself shares many parallels with...
that was fought on 2 May – 3 May 1815.
AustrianAustrian EmpireThe Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire...
Army
Commander-in-Chief
A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
: Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Bianchi
Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza
Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza , was an Austrian general and later field marshal.-Biography:...
Total strength: 11,938 men – 1452 horses – 28 guns
I CorpsCorpsA corps is either a large formation, or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service...
Commander: Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron MohrGeneral staff
General Staff
A military staff, often referred to as General Staff, Army Staff, Navy Staff or Air Staff within the individual services, is a group of officers and enlisted personnel that provides a bi-directional flow of information between a commanding officer and subordinate military units...
: Colonel Baron Fleischer, Major Kunerth, Captain Auer, Captain Muhlruer, Captain Potier
1st BrigadeBrigadeA brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...
Commander: General Count StaherembergGeneral staff: Captain Spanoghi, Lieutenant Moker
- PioneersAssault PioneerAn Assault Pioneer is an infantry soldier who is responsible for:* The construction of tools for infantry soldiers to cross natural and man-made obstacles as well as breaching of enemy fortifications;...
Company No. 1 "Radinski" (161 men) - TyroleanCounty of TyrolThe County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...
JägerJäger (military)Jäger is a term that was adopted in the Enlightenment era in German-speaking states and others influenced by German military practice to describe a kind of light infantry, and it has continued in that use since then....
Battalion No. 9 (1043 men) - 4¾ Squadrons, Hungarian HussarHussarHussar refers to a number of types of light cavalry which originated in Hungary in the 14th century, tracing its roots from Serbian medieval cavalry tradition, brought to Hungary in the course of the Serb migrations, which began in the late 14th century....
Regiment No. 5 "Prince Regent of EnglandGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
" (441 men and horses) - 1 BattalionBattalionA battalion is a military unit of around 300–1,200 soldiers usually consisting of between two and seven companies and typically commanded by either a Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel...
, Grenz InfantryGrenz infantryGrenz infantry or Grenzers were light infantry troops who came from the Croatian and Transylvanian Military Frontier in Habsburg Monarchy . This borderland formed a buffer zone between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and the troops were originally raised to defend Austria against the...
RegimentRegimentA regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...
No. 61 "Saint-Julien" (400 men) - ArtilleryArtilleryOriginally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...
(6 guns, 102 men and 99 horses)
Total: 2147 men – 540 horses – 6 guns
2nd Brigade
Commander: General Baron SenitzerGeneral Staff: General Staab, Major Startenthal, Captain Weingarten
- 2 Battalions, Line InfantryLine infantryLine infantry is a type of infantry which composed the basis of European land armies from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century....
Regiment No. 2 "HillerJohann von HillerJohann Baron von Hiller, June 10, 1754 – June 5, 1819, was an Austrian general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
" (1971 men) - 2 Battalions, Line Infantry Regiment No. 43 "Simbschen" (1848 men)
- 1 Battalion, Grenz Infantry Regiment No. 62 "Wacquant-Geozelles" (969 men)
- Artillery (8 guns, 132 men and 70 horses)
Total: 4920 men – 70 horses – 8 guns
3rd Brigade
Commander: General Baron Ekhardt- 3 Battalions, Line Infantry Regiment No. 3 "Archduke CharlesArchduke Charles, Duke of TeschenArchduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain...
" (2426 men) - 2 Battalions, Line Infantry Regiment No. 27 "Chasteler" (1490 men)
- Artillery (8 guns, 132 men and 70 horses)
Total: 4048 men – 70 horses – 8 guns
4th Brigade
Commander: General Baron Taxis- 5½ Squadrons, Royal TuscanGrand Duchy of TuscanyThe Grand Duchy of Tuscany was a central Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859, replacing the Duchy of Florence. The grand duchy's capital was Florence...
DragoonDragoonThe word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills. However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional light cavalry units and personnel...
Regiment "Grand Duke FerdinandFerdinand III, Grand Duke of TuscanyFerdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824. He was also the Prince-elector and Grand Duke of Salzburg and Grand Duke of Würzburg .-Biography:Ferdinand was born in Florence, Tuscany, into the...
" (726 men and horses) - Artillery (6 guns, 97 men and 46 horses)
Total: 823 men – 772 horses – 6 guns
NeapolitanKingdom of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...
Army
Commander-in-Chief
A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
: King Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat
Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...
of Naples
General staff
General Staff
A military staff, often referred to as General Staff, Army Staff, Navy Staff or Air Staff within the individual services, is a group of officers and enlisted personnel that provides a bi-directional flow of information between a commanding officer and subordinate military units...
: General Prince Campana, General Costa, General De Medici, Captain Caselli
Total strength: 25,588 men – 4,790 horses – 58 guns
GuardFoot Guards-British Army:The Foot Guards are the Regular Infantry regiments of the Household Division of the British Army. There have been six regiments of foot guards, five of which still exist. The Royal Guards Reserve Regiment was a reserve formation of the Household Brigade in existence from 1900-1901...
DivisionDivision (military)A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers. In most armies, a division is composed of several regiments or brigades, and in turn several divisions typically make up a corps...
s
Captain of the Guard: Lieutenant General Millet de Villeneuve InfantryInfantryInfantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...
of the Guard
Commander: General Prince Pignatelli Strongoli- 1st VelitesVelitesVelites were a class of infantry in the Polybian legions of the early Roman republic. Velites were light infantry and skirmishers who were armed with a number of light javelins, or hastae velitares, to fling at the enemy, and also carried short thrusting swords, or gladii for use in melee...
RegimentRegimentA regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...
(925 men) - 2nd Velites Regiment (1064 men)
- Voltigeurs (1236 men)
- 2nd ArtilleryArtilleryOriginally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...
Regiment 540 men - Artillery (10 guns, 126 men and 250 horses)
- Baggage Train (153 men)
Total: 4044 men – 250 horses – 10 guns
CavalryCavalryCavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the third oldest and the most mobile of the combat arms...
of the Guard
Commander: General Livron- HussarHussarHussar refers to a number of types of light cavalry which originated in Hungary in the 14th century, tracing its roots from Serbian medieval cavalry tradition, brought to Hungary in the course of the Serb migrations, which began in the late 14th century....
s of the Guard (426 men and 556 horses) - Mounted Chasseurs of the Guard (200 men and horses)
- Chevau-légersChevau-légersThe Chevau-légers was a generic French name for several units of light cavalry, roughly similar to lancers in the armies of other states during the Napoleonic Wars. Perhaps the most famous of all such units were the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Regiment of the Guards and the French 2nd Light Cavalry...
of the Guard (398 men and 447 horses) - LancerLancerA lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance. Lances were used in mounted warfare by the Assyrians as early as and subsequently by Greek, Persian, Gallic, Han-Chinese, nomadic and Roman horsemen...
s of the Guard (313 men and 340 horses) - Artillery (8 guns, 106 men and 135 horses)
- Baggage Train (133 men)
Total: 1576 men – 1894 horses – 10 guns
2nd Infantry Division
Commander: General Ambrosio- 3rd Light InfantryLight infantryTraditionally light infantry were soldiers whose job was to provide a skirmishing screen ahead of the main body of infantry, harassing and delaying the enemy advance. Light infantry was distinct from medium, heavy or line infantry. Heavy infantry were dedicated primarily to fighting in tight...
Regiment (2203 men) - 2nd Line InfantryLine infantryLine infantry is a type of infantry which composed the basis of European land armies from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century....
Regiment (2096 men) - 6th Line Infantry Regiment (2147 men)
- 9th Line Infantry Regiment (1438 men)
- Artillery (10 guns, 207 men and 210 horses)
- Baggage Train (138 men)
Total: 8229 men – 210 horses – 10 guns
3rd Infantry Division
Commander: General LechiGiuseppe Lechi
Giuseppe Lechi , Italian general, jacobin and patriot.-Biography:Being the first son of Faustino Lechi and his wife Doralice Bielli, the general Giuseppe Lechi was already considered a man of great light and shadows , reckless and unscrupulous similar to his uncle the Count Galliano Lechi, who was...
- 1st Light Infantry Regiment (2060 men)
- 4th Line Infantry Regiment (2045 men)
- 7th Line Infantry Regiment (1843 men)
- 8th Line Infantry Regiment (2062 men)
- Artillery (10 guns, 205 men and 220 horses)
- Baggage Train (140 men)
Total: 8010 men – 220 horses – 10 guns
4th Infantry Division
Commander: General Pignatelli Cerchiara- 4th Light Infantry Regiment (800 men)
- 10th, 11th and 12th Line Infantry Regiments (1100 men)
- Cavalry Reserve (500 horses)
Total: 1900 men – 500 horses
Cavalry Division
Commander: General Rossetti- 1st Chevau-légers Regiment (242 men and 228 horses)
- 2nd Chevau-légers Regiment (628 men and 592 horses)
- 3rd Chevau-légers Regiment (563 men and 530 horses)
- 4th Chevau-légers Regiment (416 men and 366 horses)
Total: 1849 men – 1716 horses