page_title: III Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée)
section_title: Leipzig, 1813
hierarchical_section_title: III Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) / Order of battle / Leipzig, 1813
context_page_description: The III Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée was a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. The corps was created in 1812 and reconstituted in 1813 and 1815. Emperor Napoleon I first mobilized the corps for the invasion of Russia. Commanded by General Emmanuel de Grouchy, two divisions of the corps fought at Borodino, Tarutino, and Vyazma. A third division fought at the First and Second battles of Polotsk and the Berezina. During the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1813, General Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova led the corps at Großbeeren, Dennewitz, Leipzig, and Hanau. During the Hundred Days in 1815, Napoleon reorganized the corps and appointed General François Étienne de Kellermann to lead it. One brigade of the corps was engaged at Quatre Bras and both divisions fought at Waterloo.
context_section_description: III Cavalry Corps: General of Division Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova (4,000)
  4th Heavy Cavalry Division: General of Division Jean-Marie Defrance
  Horse Artillery: (1/2 battery)
  1st Brigade: General of Brigade Jacques Philippe Avice
  4th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  5th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  12th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  14th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  2nd Brigade: General of Brigade Jean Charles Quinette de Cernay
  16th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  17th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  21st Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  26th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  27th Dragoon Regiment (1 squadron)
  13th Cuirassier Regiment (1 squadron)
  5th Light Cavalry Division: General of Division Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge
  Horse Artillery: (1/2 battery)
  12th Light Cavalry Brigade: General of Brigade Charles Claude Jacquinot
  5th Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (2 squadrons)
  10th Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (2 squadrons)
  13th Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (2 squadrons)
  13th Light Cavalry Brigade: General of Brigade Jean Baptiste Gabriel Merlin
  15th Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (1 squadron)
  21st Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (1 squadron)
  22nd Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (2 squadrons)
  6th Light Cavalry Division: General of Division François Fournier-Sarlovèze
  Horse Artillery: (1/2 battery)
  9th Light Cavalry Brigade: General of Brigade Pierre Mourier
  29th Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (1 squadron)
  31st Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment (1 squadron)
  1st Hussar Regiment (1 squadron)
  10th Light Cavalry Brigade: General of Brigade Auguste Jean Ameil
  2nd Hussar Regiment (1 squadron)
  4th Hussar Regiment (1 squadron)
  12th Hussar Regiment (1 squadron)
  Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. pp. 462–463. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
caption: Jean-Toussaint Arrighi
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