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French Order-of-Battle during the Golymin and Pultusk Campaign: 3e Division de DragonsBy Greg Gorsuch
Notes: The situations of the 5th and 16th Dragoons in January are summary situations where the regiments include the detached men and horses, as well as the men at the hospitals.� Detachments that could join in a convenient time to take part in the operations of the December campaign. 3rd Division of Dragoons The 5th Dragoons received, with its passage in Berlin, a mounted detachment of at least 100 men, departing Saint-Germain from 12 to September 15. The 12th Dragoons received a detachment of 100 men coming from the dissolution of the foot dragoons, mounted in Potsdam and starting out November 10.� This detachment is included in the situation presented for December 15.� The 8th Dragoons received 17 mounted dragoons departing from its depot in Strasbourg at the end of September and arriving in Berlin during the last days of October; moreover, it received 80 dragoons coming from the dissolution of the foot dragoons, mounted in Potsdam and starting out on November 10.� These detachments are included in the situation presented for December 15th.� The 16th Dragoons received a detachment of 108 men coming from the dissolution of the foot dragoons, mounted in Potsdam and starting out on November 10.� This detachment is included in the situation presented for December 15.� The 9th received, with its passage to Berlin, a mounted detachment of at least 100 men, departing from Versailles between the 12th and 15th of September. The 21st did not receive any reinforcements before the December campaign.� The first detachment destined for this regiment started from Potsdam only on December 1 and could not arrive in time.� All these detachments constituted for the 3rd Division a reinforcement of approximately 505 horses, which could take part in the operations of December.�
Source: Foucart, P. Campagne de Pologne: Novembre-d�cembre 1806-Janvier 1807. Paris: Libraire Militaire Berger-Levralt & Co.; 1882. Placed on the Napoleon Series: October 2004��������� ������ |
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