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covered the right wing. 109 The 1 st and 2 nd Heavy Cavalry Divisions of Generals Jean
Joseph d’Hautpoul and Nansouty were behind the infantry. 110
So, around 9:30 a.m., two talented and aggressive commanders Lannes and
Bagration approached each other from the opposite directions. A French officer left a
vivid description of Lannes, “who next to Masséna was of all the generals the one who
possessed the soldier’s eye in the highest degree, together with the flashes of genius
which are called inspiration and the promptitude which blends the execution with the
thought.” 111 As the 5 th Corps engaged the Russian Imperial Guard near Blasowitz, Prince
Liechtenstein arrived there with his cavalry and observed the French movement. 112 He
deployed an eighteen-gun battery to bombard the French and then ordered General
Adjutant Uvarov to charge the enemy positions. 113
109 Treillard commanded 9 th and 10 th Hussars, 13 th and 21 st Chasseurs à cheval, for a total of
986 men. Milhaud had over 600 men in 16 th and 22 nd Chasseurs à cheval and Kellermannnn had
1,267 men in the 2 nd , 4 th , 5 th Hussars and 8 th Chasseurs à cheval. Colin, “Campagne de 1805,“
Revue Historique, 78 (1907): 534; Terry Emory Gordon, The early life and career of General
François-Étienne Kellermannnn, 1770-1811, Ph.D. diss. Florida State University, 1979, 107.
Rüstow acknowledged 1,100 men under Kellermann, and 800 men under Milhaud, Der Krieg
von 1805, 365.
110 Walther was behind Suchet’s troops and Nansouty at the back of Caffarelli. 30e Bulletin,
Correspondance de Napoleon Ier, XI, No. 9541, 546; Colin, “Campagne de 1805,“ Revue
Historique, 77 (1907): 311; 78 (1907): 534. Also see, Berthier to Caffarelli, Berthier to
Bernadotte, 28 November 1805; General Dispositions, 1 December 1805, Ibid., XI, Nos. 9530,
9531, 9535, 533-34, 537-39. According to Rüstow, Nansouty commanded 2,300 men in 24
squadrons, d’Hautpoul had 16 squadrons of 1,500 men and Walther’s division comprised of
1,700 men in 18 squadrons. Der Krieg von 1805, 365.
111 Thiébault , Memoirs, II, 157.
112 From Documents of General Uvarov, RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 3154, l.11b; Dumas,
Precis de evenemens militaries, XIV, 179-80; Colin, “Campagne de 1805,“ Revue Historique, 78
(1907): 541-42; Rüstow, Der Krieg von 1805, 382-83.
113 Uvarov commanded Kharkov and Chernigov Dragoons, Elizavetgrad Hussars and a
company of horse artillery under Aleksey Yermolov. Uvarov to Kutuzov, 7 December 1805,
Documents of M.I. Kutuzov’s Headquarters, 221; Stutterheim, Battle of Austerlitz, 93
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