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This is the complete order of battle for the four major battles of the Waterloo campaign.

French Army order of battle

Headquarters

L'Armée du Nord under the command of Emperor Napoleon I.
Major Général (Chief of Staff): Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia.
Commander of artillery: General of Division Charles-Étienne-François Ruty.
Field commanders under the direct command of Emperor Napoleon:

• Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskova:
  • On 16 June 1815, at the battle of Quatre Bras, in command of the Left Wing: I Corps, II Corps (minus the Girard division, present at the battle of Ligny), III Cavalry Corps (minus the l'Héritier division, present at the battle of Ligny) and Imperial Guard light cavalry division.
  • On 18 June 1815, at the battle of Waterloo, effective field commander of all the French forces present, minus those engaged at Plancenoit (VI Corps and elements of the Guard).
• Marshal Marquis de Grouchy:
  • On 16 June 1815, at the Battle of Ligny, in command of the French Cavalry Reserve: I Cavalry Corps, II Cavalry Corps, the l'Héritier division (detached from III Cavalry Corps) and IV Cavalry Corps.
  • Between 17 and 19 June 1815, in command of the Right Wing: III Corps (minus the Domon's cavalry division, present at the battle of Waterloo), IV Corps, I Cavalry Corps (minus the division of Subervie present at the battle of Waterloo, but with the Teste infantry division attached to it), II Cavalry Corps.

I Corps

II Corps

III Corps

IV Corps

VI Corps

I Cavalry Reserve Corps

II Cavalry Reserve Corps

III Cavalry Reserve Corps

IV Cavalry Reserve Corps

French Imperial Guard

• Commander of the Garde Impériale: Marshal Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier (on sick leave, following a sudden attack of sciatica).
• Aide-major général (2nd in command): General of Division Comte Antoine Drouot.
• Sous-aide-major général: Colonel Hériot.

Anglo-allied Army order of battle

Combined British, Dutch and Hanoverian forces were under the supreme command of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The order of battle included below reflects all units of the Anglo-allied Army including those that were not present for the battles themselves (units spread across the area or on garrison duty). The casualty numbers include all the casualties suffered by each regiment over the three days of fighting during the campaign from 16 June 1815 to dawn on 19 June 1815.

Present at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024 killed, 10,222 wounded and 2,838 missing) a loss of 24.6%.

Headquarters and support regiments

I Corps

I Corps fielded 24,844 (1,233 officers and 23,383 other ranks) on 18 June 1815 taking into account those not present in the Order of Battle and the casualties on the previous two days.

II Corps

With so much of the Dutch Belgian contingent not present at the battle, only 579 officers and 8,677 men (9,256 in total) were fielded by II Corps.

Cavalry Corps

With only three regiments not present at the battle the Cavalry Corps was the most complete at Waterloo fielding 16,133 (933 officers and 13,897 men) after taking into account the small losses at Quatre-Bras and during the retreat on 17 June 1815.

Reserves

The reserves, 34,394 men and 56 guns, came under the direct command of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo. The British 7th Infantry Division under Major General Kenneth MacKenzie was not present at the battle as the brigade manned various garrisons around the area. The Hanoverian Reserve Division was also not present, again manning garrisons on behalf of the army. Actual combatants from the Reserve present at the battle numbered 18,964 with 56 guns.

Prussian Army order of battle

The Prussian Army was led by Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstadt and his chief of staff August von Gneisenau and remained independent from the allied Anglo-Dutch-German army during the course of the campaign.

Staff

Major General Karl von Grolman, was Quartermaster General.

I Corps

II Corps

III Corps

IV Corps

See also

• Ligny order of battle
• Quatre Bras order of battle
• Military mobilisation during the Hundred Days

Notes

1. webpage says that 21st lost their c/o but the record does not show any officer casualties in the 21st at Waterloo, Digby Smith, p.298.
2. Antoine Maurin was wounded at the Battle of Ligny, command passed to Louis Vallin (Siborne 1895, p. 299).
3. The strength and losses of the French Guard foot regiments is provided from a study of the Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre archives, conducted by Russian historian Oleg Sokolov. Complements reflect the actual strength of the Foot Guards on the morning of 16 June 1815, before the beginning of the battle of Ligny. During this battle, around 350 men of the Foot Guard were lost, with most casualties in the Young Guard division (Sokolov 2003, p. 478).
4. The complements of the other French Guard units (cavalry, artillery, sappers and sailors) are provided by French historian Alain Pigeard.(Pigeard 2005, pp. 518–520)
5. ^ At the start of the campaign Colonel Goedecke was in command of both the Nassau 2nd Regiment and the Netherlands 2nd Brigade, but on 15 June, the day hostilities commenced, he broke his leg. Major Settler (the senior major and commander of the 1st Battalion) took commanded of the 2nd Regiment, and Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar took command of the 2nd Brigade.
6. Largest battalion present at Waterloo.
7. 2 flank companies each from 19th and 20th East-Indies Battalion
8. Unit with the highest casualty percentage at 82%.
9. ^ Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch: "Pirch I", the use of Roman numerals being used in Prussian service to distinguish officers of the same name, in this case from his brother, seven years his junior, Otto Karl Lorenz von Pirch "Pirch II".
10. Donnersmarck is also referred to in some sources as "Henckel" or "Henkel"
11. An alternative spelling for von Treskow is von Tresckow
12. In March 1813 during the German Campaign Colonel Reuss created the Ausländer-Bataillon von Reuss ("Von Reuss's Foreign Battalion"). It was originally recruited from ex-POWs (repatriated after the Russian Campaign of the previous year), volunteers and Westphalians. In July 1814 it became the Elbe Regiment, and in March 1815 it was designated as the 26th Prussian line regiment.
13. replaced at Ligny by Reckow.
14. Colonel von Thümen was killed at Ligny, lieutenant-colonel von Schmiedeberg (commander of the 2nd regiment Silesian uhlans) succeeded to his command.
15. Uhlan: A contemporary title used for lancer regiments in the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies.

References

1. 7th cavalry division, sometimes referred to instead of 6th, was part of the V Corps (see Military mobilisation during the Hundred Days)
2. ^ Pigeard 2005, pp. 518–520.
3. Glover 2010, pp. 159–160, 233 footnote 321.
4. Glover 2010, pp. 159–160, 238 (footnote 371).
5. Moorsom 1860, p. 267.
6. ^ Haythornthwaite 1995, p. 390.
7. Siborne 1895, p. 788.
8. ^ Schneider 2012a numbers them: 1st Heavy 2nd Light, 3rd Light; but NHAE staff 2010 numbers them Heavy, 1st Light, 2nd Light.
9. Schneider 2012a, but NHAE staff 2010 numbers this the 4th (Dutch) Light Dragoon
10. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Grolmann, Karl Wilhelm Georg von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 661–662.
11. Spelling from Becke, A.F. (1911). "Waterloo Campaign, 1815" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 373.
12. Haythornthwaite 2007, p. 195
13. Siborne 1895, p. 77.
14. Charras 1857, p. 352, footnote.
15. Wit, Pierre de (2014), "Chapter 6, Ligny: The situation on the Prussian right wing." (PDF), The campaign of 1815: a study, pp. 2, 9, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-18, retrieved 2014-07-04 cites Lieutenant Colonel Von Schmiedeberg (commander of the 2nd regiment of Silesian uhlans) in his report. In: Dziengel, J.D.von, Geschichte des Königlichen Zweiten Ulanen – Regiments, p. 386
16. Siborne 1895, p. 639.

Bibliography

• Charras, Jean Baptiste Adolphe (1857), Histoire de la campagne de 1815 (in French), Brussels: Meline, Cans et Comp. & J Hetzel et Comp., p. 352
• Franklin, John; Embleton, Gerry (2015), Waterloo 1815 (2): Ligny, Osprey Publishing, p. 19, ISBN 978-1-4728-0368-9
• Glover, Gareth (2010), Waterloo Archive: German Sources, vol. 2 (illustrated ed.), Frontline Books, pp. 159–160, 233 (footnote 321), 238 (footnote 371), ISBN 9781848325418
• Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (1995) , Journal of the Waterloo Campaign Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 by Mercer, Cavalié, Da Capo Press, p. 390, ISBN 0-306-80651-7
• Haythornthwaite, Philip (2007), The Waterloo Armies: Men, Organization and Tactics, Pen and Sword, p. 142, 195, ISBN 978-1-84415-599-6
• Houssaye, Henry (1899), 1815 (27th ed.), Paris: Perrin & C.: Volume 1 and Volume 2.
• Moorsom, W S, ed. (1860), Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) from 1755 to 1858 (2nd ed.), London: Richard Bentley, p. 267{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (facsimile printed by The Naval & Military Press Ltd, East Sussex, England)
• NHAE staff (22 October 2010), Allies Order of Battle, Waterloo 1815
• Pigeard, Alain (2005), La Garde Impériale (in French), Paris: Tallandier, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, ISBN 2-84734-177-3
• Schneider, John (28 April 2012f), L'Armée du Nord (French Order of Battle for the campaign) (in French), archived from the original on 17 July 2012
• Schneider, John (28 April 2012a), The Anglo-Allied Army (Anglo-Allied Order of Battle for the campaign), archived from the original on 17 July 2012
• Schneider, John (28 April 2012p), Das Königliche Preußische Heer des Niederrheins (Prussian Order of Battle for the campaign) (in German), archived from the original on 17 July 2012
• Siborne, William (1844), History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815 (2nd ed.), London: T. & W. Boone: Volume 1 and Volume 2 (4th and 5th editions published as The Waterloo campaign, 1815). This edition shows "Appendix" in uncut version; (1848): 3rd edition published in one book.
• Siborne, William (1895), The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable (1st, 2nd and 3rd editions published as History of the war in France and Belgium in 1815).
• Smith, Digby (2015), Charge! Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars, Barnsley{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Sokolov, Oleg (2003), L'armée de Napoléon (in French), Saint-Germain-en-Laye: Commios, ISBN 2-9518364-1-4

Further reading

• Dalton, Charles (1904), The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes (1904), London: Eyre and Spottiswoode — Short biographies on all ranks present down to Lieutenant-General, with a few more junior ranks, however the list of regiments includes footnotes on junior officers who went on to have notable careers.
• Gardner, Dorsey (1882), Quatre-Bras, Ligny and Waterloo; a narrative of the campaign in Belgium, 1815, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, & co., pp. 20–26 — Order of battle for the three armies with names and numbers.
• Maxwell, Will. Ham (1845), Life of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington: (In Three Volumes), vol. 3 (4 ed.), H. G. Bohn, pp. 560–561 — List of staff officers.

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