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    Avatar photoBandit
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    Anyone have a good source on the senior officer of each the French Guard infantry and Guard cavalry at Austerlitz? I’m trying to find who acted as subordinates to Bessières.

    Cheers,

    The Bandit

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    This is from 1805: Austerlitz by Robert Goetz:

    Infantry of the Imperial Guard

    1st Bde (Grenadiers a Pied) – GdB Pierre Auguste Hulin (Hulin was absent, commanding in Vienna, so I assume – but don’t know for sure – that command fell to Colonel-Major Jean Marie Pierre Francois Lepaige Dorsenne)

    2nd Bde (Chasseurs a Pied) – GdB Jerome Soules

    3rd Bde (Italian Guard) – GdB Teodoro Lecchi

    Cavalry of the Imperial Guard

    Gendarmerie d’Elite – detached to Brunn

    1st Bde (Grenadiers a Cheval) GdB Michel Ordener

    2nd Bde (Chasseurs a Cheval) Colonel-en-Second Francois Louis Morland

    Artillery of the Imperial Guard

    Commander Francois-Henri-Eugene Daugier

    According to Hourtoulle (Austerlitz: The Empire at its Zenith) the Chief of Staff of the Guard was Roussel and Bessieres’s ADCs were Cesar de Laville de Villa-Stellone, Lebrun, D’oullembourg, Louis de Seganville, Leinsteinschneider, Desmichels, Lapeyriere and Barbanegre.

    I hope that is some help.

     

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    Thank you, it does help.

    Cheers,

    The Bandit

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