The 5th Dragoon Regiment of Defrance's division was engaged at the Battle of Hanau on 30–31 October 1813. On 23 November, Arrighi's III Corps was stationed at Bonn on the Rhine River, with its left wing at Cologne and its right wing at Koblenz. By 1 December, the corps was shifted northward so that it guarded the Rhine between Wesel and Andernach. Historian Digby Smith's catalog of Napoleonic War battles does not list the corps in any major actions during 1814. However, the III Cavalry Corps under Arrighi and the IV Cavalry Corps under Sébastiani served in Marshal Jacques MacDonald's command during the first week of February 1814. After being defeated at Chouilly on the 6th, Arrighi's corps numbered no more than 500 sabers.