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X Corps (Grande Armée)

For the similarly numbered formation in World War I and World War II, see 10th Army Corps (France).

The X Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. The corps was first formed in 1807 and placed under the command of Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre. During the French invasion of Russia in 1812, the corps was reconstituted and Marshal Jacques MacDonald[1] [2] was appointed to lead it. Following the retreat from Russia, the X Corps was given the assignment of holding Danzig under the leadership of General Jean Rapp. The Siege of Danzig lasted from January 1813 until January 1814, when the garrison surrendered. It contained a Prussian contingent that went on to form the core of the reformed Prussian Army in 1813.[3]

X Corps
Active1807
1812–1813
Country First French Empire
Branch French Imperial Army
SizeCorps
EngagementsWar of the Fourth Coalition
Russian campaign
War of the Sixth Coalition
Commanders
Notable
commanders		François Joseph Lefebvre
Jacques MacDonald
Jean Rapp

Order of battle

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Russia, 1812

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Corps Commander Chief of Staff Chief, Artillery Chief, Engineers Aides-de-Camp
Marshal Étienne Macdonald Adjutant Commander Jacques Terrier Division General Albert Tavial [fr]

7th Division

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Commander Chief of Staff Chief, Artillery Adjutant Chief, Engineers Inspecteur aux revues Aide de Camp
Division General Charles Grandjean Plk. Jozef Nowicki CdB Farjon Capt. Louis Chapuis Capt., 1st Class Roger-P-M-A de Riencourt Sr. Inspecteur aux revue [fr] Reybaud (Rayband)
  • CdB Theodore Meynier
  • Capt. Perrin (Perin)
  • Lt. Maisonneuve
1st Brigade
Commander: Général de brigade Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard
5th Polish Line Regt [pl]
Commander: Plk. Stefan Oskierko [pl]
1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 4th Battalion Artillery Regt
CdB Ludwik Kaminski CdB Jan Godlewski CdB Feliks Stokowski Not present Kapt. Ignacy Kulesza
13th Bavarian Line Regt
Commander: Oberst Franz Baron Schlossberg
1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 1st Section, 2nd Bavarian
Maj. Caspar Poyk (Poeck) Maj. Franz von Pillement [de] Untlt.[expand acronym] Alois Escher(t) II
2nd Brigade
Commander: Général de brigade Michal Radziwill
Aide-de-camp: Kapitan Antoni Niesiolowski
10th Polish Line Regt [pl]
Commander: Polkovnik Henryk Kamienski
1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 4th Battalion Artillery Regt
CdB Jan Krassin (Crassin, Krassyn) CdB Franciszek Czyzewski CdB Nicolas Joseph Daine [nl] Not present Kapt. Leneke
3rd Brigade
Commander: Général de brigade Gilbert Bachelu
11th Polish Line Regt [pl]
Commander: Polkovnik Aleksander Chlebowski [pl]
1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 4th Battalion Artillery Regt
CdB Piotr Szembeck [pl] CdB Kazimierz Poniatowski CdB Karol Jon(n)emann Not present Kapt. Ostrowski
1st Westphalian Line Regt
Commander: Colonel Georg Ferdinand Plesmann [de]
1st Battalion 2nd Battalion Artillery Regt
CdB Johann Philipp Bauer [de] Capt. David von Kruse (later CdB) Kapt. von Haustein
Division (Prussian) Cavalry (detached from 27th Division)
Commander: Oberst Karl F. von Hunerbein [de]
1st Prussian Combined Hussar Regt
Regiment Commander: Major Dietrich C. G. von Cosel
1st Leib Hussar Regt [de] 2nd Leib Hussar Regt [de]
3rd Squadron 4th Squadron 2nd Squadron 3rd Squadron
Rittm. Karl Leopold F. Dallmer Rittm. Meyer Maj. von Kurnatowsky Rittm. Karl L. Zastrow
Division Artillery and Engineers
Commander: ?
6th Polish Foot Company 1st Polish Horse Company Polish Garde d'Artie 4th Polish Sapper Company
Kapt. Turdeski Kapt. Wladyslaw Ostrowski Detachment Kapt. Jozef Dobrzyński
Division Train
Commander: ?
12th Battalion (in German) 6th Train Company
? S.-lieutenant Benoist (?)

27th (Prussian) Infantry Division

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Corps Commander 2nd in Command Chief of Staff Quartermaster Chief Engineer Adjutants
Prussian Mobile Corps General d. Inf. Julius von Grawert GenLt Ludwig Yorck Obst. Friedrich E. von Roeder Obstlt. Johann F. K. von Lossau [pl; fr] (Genstab.) Maj. Markoff
Prussian Infantry GenMjr Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf
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 Maj. Ernst von Perbandt [de] (Genstab.)
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Prussian Cavalry GenLt Friedrich von Massenbach [de]
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Brigades
1st Brigade
Commander: Oberst Hans Franz von Below [de]
Adjutant: Stabs-Kapit. von Drygalski
Inftantry Regt Nr. 1 [de]
Commander, 2nd East Prussian Regt [de]: Major Friedrich Wilhelm von Sjöholm [de]
1st East Prussian Infantry Regt 2nd East Prussian Infantry Regt
Fusilier Battalion II Battalion I Battalion
Maj. Christoph J. H. von Erammon Maj. Carl von Kurnatowsky [de] Maj. Ludwig von Krauthof
Inftantry Regt Nr. 2 [de]
Commander, 3rd East Prussian Infantry Regt: Major Ludwig F. von Sjoholm II
3rd East Prussian Infantry Regt 4th East Prussian Infantry Regt
I Battalion Fusilier Battalion I Battalion
Maj. Karl R. W. von Beckedorff [de] Maj. Johann F. von Pfeiffer Maj. Julius von Lübtow [de]
?
Fusilier Battalion
?
2nd East Prussian Regt
Fusilier Battalion
Maj. Friedrich W. von Funck
2nd Brigade
Commander: Oberstleutnant Heinrich Wilhelm von Horn
Adjutant: St.[expand acronym] Kaptitan August Wilhelm Graf von Kanitz
Infantry Regt Nr. 3
Commander, Colb.[expand acronym] Infantry Regt: Major Karl F. F. von Steinmetz
Colb.[expand acronym] Infantry Regt 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regt
I Battalion Fusilier Battalion II Battalion
Maj. Friedrich W. von Quednow Maj. August Ferdinand von Borcke Maj. Carl Ludwig Frhr. von Linsingen
Infantry Regt Nr. 4
Commander: Major Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch
Leib-Grenadier-Regt [de]
Fusilier Battalion I Battalion II Battalion
Maj. August Heinrich von Reuss Maj. Julius Gustav Friedrich von Both [de]
3rd Brigade
Commander: Oberst Eugen von Raumer [de]
Adjutant: Major von Collrepp
Infantry Regt Nr. 5
Commander: Major Ludwig D. K. von Schmalensee [de]
1st West Prussian Infantry Regt 2nd West Prussian Infantry Regt
I Battalion Fusilier Battalion I Battalion
Maj. von Imbrecht
  • Maj. Julius L. von Rudolphi
  • Maj. Georg W. von Lettow
 Maj. Friedrich E. von Loebell
Infantry Regt Nr. 6 [de]
Commander: Major Arwed K. von Carnall
1st Sch.[expand acronym] Inft. Regt 2nd Sch.[expand acronym] Inft. Regt
Maj. von Happe Maj. Karl G. S. von Lessel Maj. Karl Heinriich von Ziemietzi
East Prussian Jäger Battalion 1st Battery, Prussian Army
Maj. Vollmar K. F. von Clausewitz [de] Uffz. Staffehl (one 3-lbr)[expand acronym]
1st Cavalry Brigade
Commander: Oberst Wilhelm Jeannert [de]
1st Combined Dragoon Regt
Commander: Major Karl Alexander Wilhelm von Treskow
1st Lithuanian Dragoon Regt 2nd West Prussian Dragoon Regt
2nd Squadron 4th Squadron 1st Squadron 2nd Squadron
Maj. von Kameke St.[expand acronym] Rittm. Dresler Maj. von Manstein Maj. Friedrich Frhr. von Stiern [de]
2nd West Prussian Dragoon Regt
Commander: Major Ernst T. von Eicke
2nd West Prussian Combined Dragoon Regt
Commander: Oberstleutnant Alexander G. L. M. M. von Wahlen-Jürgass
1st West Prussian Dragoon Regt
1st Squadron 3rd Squadron
Rittm. Karl Weiss Rittm. Ernst L. B. von Printz
3rd Combined Hussar Regt
Commander: Major Ernst T. von Eicke
1st Schles.[expand acronym] Hussar Regt 2nd Schles.[expand acronym] Hussar Regt
1st Squadron 3rd Squadron 1st Squadron 2nd Squadron
St.[expand acronym] Rittm. Friedrich A. Kehler St.[expand acronym] Rittm. Muller Maj. Johann H. von Schill

(Prussian) Corps Artillery

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Brigades
Commander: Major Johann H. von Schmidt
Foot Artillery
Commander: Major Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Fiebig [de]
Foot Battery No. 1 (6-pdr) Foot Battery No. 2 (6-pdr) Foot Battery No. 3 (6-pdr) Foot Battery No. 4 (6-pdr) Half Battery (12-pdr)
Pr.-Kapit. Huet Stabs-Kapit. Wegner Stabs-Kapit. Ziegler Pr.-Kapit. Ludwig Pr.-Kapit. von Roszynski
Horse Artillery
Major Gustav von Fiebig II
1st Horse Battery 2nd Horse Battery 3rd Horse Battery
Stabs-Kapit. Johann K. L. von Zincken Pr.-Kapit. Georg W. von Rentzell Pr.-Kapit. von Graumann
Artillery Park
?
Park (Munitions) columns
No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5
Sec.-Lt. Schliew Sec.-Lt. Herrmann Prem.-Lt. Barenkampff Pr.-Kapit. Meyer (4th Foot Co., Prussian Brigade) Sec.-Lt. von Hertig I (8th Foot Co., Brand.[expand acronym] Brig.)
Bridging Column
Handwerk Columns
Commander, 2nd Foot Battery: Seconde-Lieutenant Lieben
No. 1 No. 2
? ?

Corps Train

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Miners
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1st Battalion 2nd Battalion
3rd Company 5th Company 1st Company
? ? ?
Sappers
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1st Battalion Sapeurs de I'ile d'Elbe Prussian Sappers
1st Company 2nd Company Marine Bataillion d'ouviers de l'Escaut 17th equipage de flottille
? ? ? ? ?

References

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  1. ^ "Napoleon Affirms Jacques MacDonald as One of His Framed..."
  2. ^ Nathan D., Jensen. "Marshal Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald".
  3. ^ Steven Smith, The Napoleon Series, 2004 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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