The Second Western Army was created during 1810 as part of the reform of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
as a whole and was intended to defend the central western region of the Russian border with Poland (
Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...
) to the Austrian border during the expected
French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...
.
Commander-in-Chief
General of the Infantry General of the Infantry is a military rank of a General officer in the infantry and refers to:
* General of the Infantry (Austria)
* General of the Infantry (Bulgaria)
* General of the Infantry (Germany) ('), a rank of a general in the German Impe ...
Prince
P.I. Bagration
Chief of Staff - Major General Graf
E.F. de Saint-Priest
General- quartermaster - Major General
M.S. Vistitskiy 2nd
Duty General - Fligel-Adjutant Colonel S.N. Marin
Chief of Artillery - Major General Baron
K.F. Levenshtern
Chief of Engineers - Major General
E.Kh. Ferster
* 7th Infantry Corps - Lieutenant General
N.N. Raevskiy
* 8th Infantry Corps - Lieutenant General
M.M. Borozdin
* 4th Cavalry Corps - Major General Graf
K.K. Sivers
The total strength of the army was 46 infantry battalions, 52 cavalry squadrons, 9 cossack regiments, and 180 cannon. The Second Western Army had approximately 45,000−49,423 men, and during the time of June-July, 1812, according to generals Barclay de Tolly, Bagration and Tormasov, was positioned along a 50-mile long front near the areas of Wolkovysk and Belostock.
See also
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First Western Army
The First Western Army was created in 1810 as part of the reorganisation of the Imperial Russian Army, and was intended as a defense against the north-western part of the Empire from the expected invasion by Napoleon. The total troops in this Ar ...
References
Armies of the Russian Empire
Military units and formations established in 1810
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