Eylau order of battle

The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Eylau of the Napoleonic Wars.

French Army
Emperor Napoleon I of France

III Corps
Marshal Davout

IV Corps
Marshal Soult

VI Corps
Marshal Ney

VII Corps
Marshal Augereau

Reserve Cavalry
Marshal Murat

Russian Army
General of Cavalry Count Bennigsen

Chief of Staff: Quartermaster-General, Major F.F. Steinheil

Second Division

Lieutenant General Count A.I. Ostermann-Tolstoi


 * Cavalry Brigade

MG (Major General) Kozhin


 * Leib Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
 * Kargopol Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Isum Hussars (10 sqs)
 * Ilowaiski 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
 * Efremov 3 Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry

Brigade MG Masowski
 * Pavlovski Grenadiers ( 3 bns)
 * Rostov Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Sukin 2
 * Petsburg Grenadiers (3 bns)
 * Eletz Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Diven 3
 * 1st Jaegers (3 bns)
 * 20th Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Stavitsky 1


 * Battery Company Maj Osipov (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Talyzin (12 guns)
 * Light Company May Efremov (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Voyeikov (12 guns)
 * Horse Battery Col Stavitsky 1 (12 guns)
 * 1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Dreyer

Third Division

Lieutenant General Baron von der Osten-Sacken


 * Cavalry Brigade MG Count P.P. von der Palen 3


 * Little Russian Cuirassers (5 sqs)
 * Kurland Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Ilowaiski 10 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
 * Papuzin Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry

Brigade MG Ushakov 1
 * Tauride Grenadiers (3 bns)
 * Lithuanian Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Titov 2
 * Kaporsk Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Muromsk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Prince Dolgorukov 5
 * Tschernigov Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Dnepr Musketeers (3 bns)
 * 21st Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col von Bril

1st Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company of Major Afanas'ev 1
 * Battery Company Col von Bril (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Kotlyarov (12 guns)
 * Light Company May Mitrofanov (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Strazhev (12 guns)
 * Horse Battery Col Pirogov (12 guns)
 * Pontoon Company of Captain Khoven

Fourth Division

Major General A.A. Somov


 * Cavalry MG Baron Korf


 * St. George (Order) Cuirassiers (5 sqs)
 * Pskov Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Polish Horse (10 sqs)
 * Grekov 9 Cossacks (5 sotnias)
 * Grekov 18 Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry

Brigade MG Somov
 * Tula Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Tengisk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Arseniev 2
 * Tobolsk Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Polotzk Musketeers (3 bns)

Brigade MG Barclay de Tolly
 * Kostroma Musketeers (3 bns)
 * 3rd Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Prince Yashvil 2


 * Battery Company Maj Savitsky (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Kudryavtsev (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Yushkov (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Brimmer (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Mikulin (12 guns)
 * Horse Company Col Prince Yashvil 2 (12 guns)
 * Pontoon Company of Major Artsibashev
 * 1st Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Captain Gebner 1

Fifth Division

Lieutenant General N.A. Tuchkov I


 * Cavalry Brigade MG Prince Golitsyn


 * Riga Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Kasan Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Elisabethgrad Hussars (10 sqs)
 * Lithuanian Horse (10 sqs)
 * Gordeev 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry


 * Brigade ?
 * Sievsk Musketeers (3 bns)
 * [Kaluga Musketeers (3 bns) Detached to Prussians; not present]


 * Brigade MG Leont'ev
 * Perm Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Mohilev Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Brigade Col Priouda
 * 24th Jaegers (3 bns)
 * 25th Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Count Sievers


 * Battery Company Col Count Sievers (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Sigismund (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Klingenberg (12 guns)
 * Horse Company Maj Obleuhov 1st (12 guns)

Troops from the Sixth Division

Brigade MG K.F. Baggovut


 * Starooskol Musketeers (3 bns)
 * 4th Jaegers (3 bns)


 * From the Cavalry Brigade


 * Alexandria Hussars (10 sqs)
 * Popov 5 Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * From the Artillery Brigade


 * Battery Company Lt-Col Vasil’ev (12 guns)
 * Horse Company Col Merlin (12 guns)
 * Light Company in two Light platoons (12 guns)

Seventh Division

Lieutenant General D.S. Dokhturov


 * Cavalry Brigade MG Chaplits


 * Moscow Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Ingermannland Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Pavlograd Hussars (10 sqs)
 * Malachov Cossacks (5 sotnias)
 * Andronov 1 Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry


 * Brigade MG Zapol'skii
 * Ekaterinoslav Grenadiers (3 bns)
 * Moscow Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Brigade MG Straton-Potapov
 * Vladimir Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Voronezh Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Brigade MG Markov 1
 * Pskov Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Azov Musketeers (3 bns)
 * 5th Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Ermolov


 * Battery Company Maj Ansio (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Shulman 2nd (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Kondratiev (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Panfilov (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Krivtsov (12 guns)
 * Horse Company Col Ermolov (12 guns)
 * 2nd Pioneer Regiment, Pioneer Company Maj Berg

Eighth Division

Lieutenant General P.K. Essen 3


 * Cavalry Brigade MG P.F. Glebov-Streshnev


 * Petersburg Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Livland Dragoons (5 sqs)
 * Olviopol Hussars (10 sqs)
 * Kieselev Cossacks (5 sotnias)
 * Sysojev Cossacks (5 sotnias)


 * Infantry

[* Viburg Musketeers Detached; fought with Prussian Corps]
 * Brigade MG Olsuf’ev 3
 * Moscow Grenadiers (3 bns)


 * Brigade MG Engelhardt 1
 * Schlusselburg Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Staroingermannland Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Brigade MG Levitsky
 * Podolsk Musketeers (1 Musketeer bn)
 * Archangelgorod Musketeers (3 bns)
 * 7th Jaegers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Nowak 1


 * Battery Company Maj Nepeytsyn (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Kolotinski (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Tatpykov (12 guns)
 * Battery Company Maj Bastian 2d (12 guns)
 * Horse Company Col Nowak 1st (12 guns)
 * 2nd Pioneer Regiment, Miner Company of Maj Zapreev

Fourteenth Division

Major General Count N. M. Kamensky 2d


 * Cavalry Brigade Col Sheplev [Brigade may not have been present]


 * Finland Dragoons (5 squadrons)
 * Mitau Dragoons (5 squadrons)
 * Grodno Hussars (10 squadrons) [Not present. Arrived at the army the day after the battle]


 * Infantry


 * Brigade MG Alekseev
 * Belozersk Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Ryazan Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Brigade MG Gersdorf
 * Uglits Musketeers (3 bns)
 * Sofia Musketeers (3 bns)


 * Artillery Brigade Col Papkov 2


 * Battery Company Col Papkov 2d (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Vitovtov (12 guns)
 * Light Company Maj Green (12 guns)
 * Pontoon Company of Major Rutkovski

Prussian artillery temporarily attached to the Russian Army's Right Flank at Eylau

Maj von Brockhausen


 * 12–pound Battery Brockhausen Nr 34 (8 guns)
 * 12-pound Battery Kulikke Nr 37 (8 guns)
 * 6-pound Battery Wedekind Nr 8 (10 guns)

Prussian Corps
Lieutenant General Anton von l'Estocq

General-Quartermaster-Lieutenant: Col von Scharnhorst

Avantgarde


 * 50 cavalry from the Towarczys Regiment
 * 40 cavalry from the Auer Dragoon Regiment Nr 6


 * Auer Dragoon Regiment Nr 6 (9 sqs)
 * Bredow Horse Battery Nr 8 (8 guns)

Third Division

Major General von Auer


 * Towarczys Regiment (10 sqs)
 * Half of Horse battery Decker Nr 10 (4 guns)
 * Vyborg Musketeers (Russian) (3 bns)

Second Division

Major General von Rembow


 * Infantry Regiment Nr 11 "Schoning" (2 bns)
 * Grenadier Battalion "Schlieffen"

First Division

Major General von Diericke


 * Grenadier Battalion "Fabecky"
 * Infantry Regiment Nr 2 "Ruchel" (2 bns)
 * Dragoon Regiment Nr 7 "Baczko" (10 sqs)
 * Cuirassier Regiment Nr 4 "Wagenfeld" (4 sqs)
 * Half of Horse Battery Nr 13 "Rentzel" (4 guns)

Rearguard

Major General von Prittwitz


 * Half of Fusilier Battalion Nr 21 "Stutterheim" (2 companies)
 * 1st Battalion, Hussar Regiment Nr 5 "Prittwitz" (5 sqs)
 * Half of Horse Battery Nr 6 "Sowinski" (4 guns)