Louis-Amédée Humbert [SEP] occupation
Louis-Amédée Humbert
Louis-Amédée Humbert (23 June 1814, Metz - 6 February 1876) was a French republican politician. He was a member of the National Assembly in 1871. He belonged to the Opportunist Republican parliamentary group, "Gauche républicaine".
, a cavalry division under Louis Klein and an infantry reserve under Jean Joseph Amable Humbert, plus occupation troops. The 6th and 7th Divisions were supervised by Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino while Lecourbe controlled the 1st and 2nd. Included in Masséna's command were Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand with 6,186 men and Claude-Sylvestre Colaud with 5,106 men watching the Rhine north of Strasbourg. Opposed to the French were 85,000 troops led by Charles, including a force watching the French divisions on the Rhine to the north and eight battalions under Gottfried von Strauch