(*At this point I should perhaps briefly explain something about the organisation for those who are not aficionados of military history. A corps (or more precisely ‘army corps’) is in fact a small army in its own right, with all the necessary infantry, artillery and cavalry to operate independently. Although the organisation is flexible, an army corps consists of at least 2 divisions of infantry and each division in this period consisted of 2 brigades. A brigade was made up of 6 infantry battalions: each battalion in the French army represented about 650 of all ranks. In this case, MacMahon had an extra-large corps with five divisions of infantry, plus the artillery and a division of cavalry.)
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