Order of battle of the Armée d'Orient (1798)
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General Bonaparte and staff in Egypt
The Armée d'Orient (English: Army of the Orient) was the French military force gathered by the French Directory to send on the expedition to Egypt in 1798. The expedition had the intention of barring Great Britain's route to its colonies in India and was put under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Land forces[]
- Commander in chief: Général Napoléon Bonaparte
- Chef d'état-major : Général Berthier
- Numbers: 45,000 of which 33,000 in Egypt
Compagnie des guides[]
- Numbers: 500 men on foot and on horseback
Division Desaix[]
- Commander: Général Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
- Numbers: 5600 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 3 battalions, 2100 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1900 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1600 men in total
Division Reynier[]
- Commander: Général Reynier
- Numbers: 3450 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 3 battalions, 1620 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1840 men in total
Division Kleber[]
- Commander: Jean-Baptiste Kléber
- Numbers: 4900 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 3 battalions, 1450 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1650 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1800 men in total
Division Menou[]
- Commander: Général Jacques-Francois Menou
- Numbers: 5200 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 3 battalions, 1100 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 2500 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1600 men in total
Division Bon[]
- Commander: Général Louis André Bon
- Numbers: 4700 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 2 battalions, 1100 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1650 men in total
- : 3 battalions, 1950 men in total
Division Dumas (cavalry)[]
- Commander: Général Dumas
- Numbers: 3050 men
- Made up of the following regiments:
- : 3 squadrons, 630 men in total
- : 3 squadrons, 280 men in total
- : 2 squadrons, 390 men in total
- : 3 squadrons, 640 men in total
- : 2 squadrons, 230 men in total
- : 4 squadrons, 330 men in total
- : 3 squadrons, 530 men in total
Division Dommartin (Artillery)[]
- Commander of the artillery: Général Dommartin
- Firepower: 171 artillery pieces, including:
- Numbers: 3150 men
- Split between:
- 3 cavalry companies
- 6 infantry companies
- 3éme Compagnie du 4éme Régiment d'Artillerie à Cheval
- 2éme Compagnie du 5éme Régiment d'Artillerie à Cheval
- 3éme and 11éme Compagnies du 1er Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied
- 1er, 2e, 6e, 7e, and 10éme Compagnies du 4éme Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied
- 9 companies of demi-brigades
Division Caffarelli (engineers)[]
- Commander (engineers): Général Caffarelli du Falga
- Numbers: 1200 men
- Split between:
- 775 sappers
- 190 miners
- 165 workers
- 25 balloonists
Garrison troops[]
- Corsica: 3600 men of:
- 23e demi-brigade d'infanterie légère: 3 battalions, totalling 2500 men
- 1er bataillon de la 86e demi-brigades d'infanterie de ligne: 1 battalion, totalling 1100 men
- Malta: 8000 men
- Division Chabot: 4000 men of:
- 6e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne: 3 battalions, totalling 1000 men
- 79e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne: 3 battalions, totalling 3000 men
- Division Vaubois: 4000 men of
- 3e bataillon de la 7e demi-brigade d'infanterie légère: 1 battalion, totalling 1150 men
- 19e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne: 2 battalions, totalling 1050 men
- 1er bataillon de la 80e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne: 1 battalion, totalling 550 men
- Various elements drawn from 6e and 41e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne as well as from 23e demi-brigade d'infanterie légère: 1200 men
- Division Chabot: 4000 men of:
Sea forces[]
Known as the Escadre d'Orient, the ships of the taskforce transported the land troops and at times during the campaign operated in tandem with them.
Ships of the line[]
15, of which 2 were armed "en flûte"
- Flagship : L'Orient, 120 guns
- Hospital ship : , 70 guns (captured at Venice)
- 80 guns :
- Le Guillaume-Tell
- Le Franklin
- Le Tonnant
- 74 guns :
- Le Spartiate
- L'Aquilon
- Le Généreux
- Le Guerrier
- Le Peuple-Souverain
- Le Timoléon
- Le Heureux
- Le Mercure
- 64 guns :
- Le Conquérant
- (captured at Venice)
- 80 guns :
Frigates[]
13 (7 armed "en flûte")
- 40 guns :
- 36 guns :
- L'Alceste
- La Sérieuse (notable for being the subject of a poem by French Romantic - Alfred de Vigny)[1]
- La Carrère
- La Muiron
- 30 guns :
Others[]
- 1 corvette, the 30 gun
- 79 brigs (of which 5 were armed)
- 38 bomb vessels (of which 4 were armed)
- 3 avisos armés
- 75 tartanes (of which 6 were armed)
- 6 chaloupes-canonnières
- 2 felouques canonnières
- 1 schooner
- 9 pinques
- 82 polacres
- 11 trois-mats à hunes (three-masters)
References and notes[]
- ^ de Vigny, Alfred. "La Fregate 'La Serieuse'". Retrieved 4 May 2012.
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- Field armies of France
- French campaign in Egypt and Syria
- Armées of the French First Republic
- Napoleonic Wars orders of battle
- French Revolutionary Wars orders of battle