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Toulouse 1814 order of battle

Toulouse 1814 order of battle

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The Battle of Toulouse saw a French army led by Marshal Nicolas Soult defend the city of Toulouse against the Marquess of Wellington's British, Portuguese, and Spanish army. The fighting took place on 10 April 1814 and Soult evacuated the city late in the evening of 11 April after suffering defeat. Allied casualties in the bitter fighting exceeded French losses by more than a thousand. Official news of the end of the war did not reach Wellington until the afternoon of 12 April.

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Military rank

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Anglo-Allied Army

Commander-in-Chief: Field Marshal the Marquess of Wellington[1][2][3]

Cavalry Commander: Lt Gen Stapleton Cotton

Quartermaster-General: Maj Gen Sir George Murray

Adjutant-General: Maj Gen the Hon Edward Pakenham

Military Secretary: Capt (brevet Lt Col) Lord FitzRoy Somerset

Commander, Royal Artillery: brevet Lt Col Alexander Dickson

Commander, Royal Engineers: Lt Col Howard Elphinstone

Army total: 48,765 (40,325 infantry, 6,490 cavalry, 1,950 artillery)

Wellington's Corps

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Freire's Corps (part of Spanish 4th Army)

Gen Manuel Freire[7]

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Hill's Corps

Lt Gen Sir Rowland Hill

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Beresford's Corps

Marshal William Beresford

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French Army of Spain

Commander-in-Chief: Marshal Soult[10][11]

Army total: 38,843 (31,793 infantry, 2,700 cavalry, 4,350 artillery)

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References

  1. [1]
    Smith, p 519. Note that Smith does not list the regiments suffering no losses.
  2. [2]
    Glover, p 358-359, p 382-387. Units not listed in Smith are inferred from Glover appendices 2 and 5.
  3. [3]
    Hope's Corps (1st and 5th Divisions) was besieging Bayonne.
  4. [4]
    Oman, p 372-373. Oman writes that Fane exercised command over both his own brigade and Clifton's.
  5. [5]
    Lipscombe (2010) has Arentschildt commanding this brigade, and Grüben commandingthe KGL Hussar brigade
  6. [6]
    This figure is the total for artillery across the three Anglo-Portuguese corps
  7. [7]
    The brigade of Morillo's Spanish 1st Division was also part of Freire's 4th Army, but operated under the command of Hill's corp for the battle (Lipscombe, 2010, p.349)
  8. [8]
    The 7th Division had been left in Bordeaux (Glover p. 324)
  9. [9]
    Oman, p 372. Vivian was wounded on 8 April.
  10. [10]
    Smith, p 500-501 and 518-519. For Toulouse, Smith lists the same unit totals as for Orthez. The following totals subtract the losses at Orthez given by Smith.
  11. [11]
    Glover, p 394. To these totals must be added one of Harispe's brigades (Brigade Paris?) which was broken up after Orthez and used to reinforce other units.

Books

  • Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-523670-9
  • Glover, Michael. The Peninsular War 1807-1814. London: Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0-14-139041-7
  • Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9
  • Oman, Charles. Wellington's Army, 1809-1814. London: Greenhill, (1913) 1993. ISBN 0-947898-41-7
  • Lipscombe, Nick (2010). The Peninsular War Atlas. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84908-364-9.
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