The VII Corps of the Grande Armée was the name of a French military unit that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. It was formed in 1805 and assigned to Marshal Pierre Augereau. From 1805 through 1807, Augereau led the army corps in the War of the Third Coalition and the War of the Fourth Coalition. It was disbanded after being nearly wiped out at the Battle of Eylau in February 1807 and its surviving troops were distributed to other army corps. At the end of 1808, the VII Corps was reconstituted in Catalonia during the Peninsular War and Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr was given command. The corps fought in Spain until 1811, when it was renamed the Army of Catalonia. At that time it was again led by Augereau.
A parallel VII Corps was created for the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 and assigned to Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre. This formation was entirely made up of troops from the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1812, a new VII Corps composed of soldiers from the Kingdom of Saxony was created for the invasion of Russia and Jean Reynier took command. This formation survived to fight during the War of the Sixth Coalition but ceased to exist after the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 due to the defection of the Saxons. The VII Corps was recreated during the 1814 Campaign and assigned to Marshal Nicolas Oudinot. The formation consisted of one Young Guard division and two regular divisions of Peninsular War veterans.
Marshal Pierre Augereau (17,672, 36 guns)
Chief of Staff: General of Brigade Claude Marie Joseph Pannetier
1st Division: General of Division Jacques Desjardin (8,242, 8 guns)
Brigade: General of Brigade Pierre Belon Lapisse
16th Light Infantry Regiment, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th battalions
Brigade: General of Brigade Jacques Lefranc
14th Light Infantry Regiment, 2nd battalion
44th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions
105th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions
Artillery: Two 12-pound guns, four 6-pound guns, two 6-inch howitzers
3rd Foot Artillery Regiment, 4th company
6th Horse Artillery Regiment, 2nd company (-)
2nd Division: General of Division Étienne Heudelet de Bierre
Brigade: General of Brigade François Pierre Joseph Amey
7th Light Infantry Regiment, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions
Brigade: General of Brigade Jacques Thomas Sarrut
24th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions
63rd Line Infantry Regiment, 1st and 2nd battalions
Brigade: unknown
Hesse-Darmstadt Fusilier Regiment, 1st and 2nd battalions
Nassau Infantry Regiment, 3rd battalion
Artillery: Two 12-pound guns, four 6-pound guns, two 6-inch howitzers
3rd Foot Artillery Regiment, 3rd company
6th Horse Artillery Regiment, 2nd company (-)
Cavalry Brigade: General of Brigade Antoine Jean Auguste Durosnel (1,290, 4 guns)
7th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th squadrons
20th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd squadrons
6th Horse Artillery Regiment, 5th company, four 4-pound guns
Corps Artillery: unknown commander (1,323 gunners and train)
Four 12-pound guns, 12 8-pound guns, four 4-pound guns, four 6-inch howitzers
1st Foot Artillery Regiment, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th companies
2nd Horse Artillery Regiment, 1st and 5th companies
General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr (42,382)
1st Division: General of Division Joseph Chabran
2nd Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
7th Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
10th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
37th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
56th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
93rd Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Swiss Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Division: General of Division Giuseppe Lechi
2nd Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
4th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Italian Chasseurs Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
1st Neapolitan Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
3rd Division: General of Division Honoré Charles Reille
32nd Light Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
16th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
113th Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Provisional Infantry Regiment of Perpignan (four battalions)
5th Legion of the Reserve (one battalion)
Chasseurs de Montagne (one battalion)
Battalion of the Valais (one battalion)
4th Division: General of Division Joseph Souham
1st Light Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
3rd Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
7th Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
42nd Line Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
67th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
5th Division: General of Division Domenico Pino
1st Italian Light Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
2nd Italian Light Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
4th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
6th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
7th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
6th Division: General of Division Louis François Jean Chabot
Chasseurs de la Pyrenees Orientales (one battalion)
2nd Neapolitan Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Corps Cavalry:
Brigade: General of Brigade Bertrand Bessières
3rd Provisional Cuirassier Regiment
3rd Provsional Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
Brigade: General of Brigade François Xavier de Schwarz
Prince Royal Italian Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
2nd Neapolitan Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
Brigade: General of Brigade Jacques Fontane
Royal Italian Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
7th Italian Dragoon Regiment
Unattached:
24th Dragoon Regiment
Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre
Artillery Reserve: Colonel Calonge
Three 12-pound position batteries, 18 guns
1st Bavarian Division: General-Leutnant Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria
Brigade: General-Major Rechberg
1st Habermann Light battalion
Leib Regiment, 2 battalions
2nd Prince Royal Regiment, 2 battalions
Brigade: General-Major Stengel
4th Salern Regiment, 2 battalions
8th Duc Pius Regiment, 2 battalions
Cavalry Brigade: General-Major Zandt
Minuzzi Dragoon Regiment, 2 squadrons
Prince Royal Chevau-léger Regiment, 4 squadrons
Artillery: Two 6-pound foot batteries, 6-pound horse battery, 18 guns
2nd Bavarian Division: General-Leutnant Karl Philipp von Wrede
Brigade: General-Major Minuzzi
6th Laroche Light battalion
3rd Prince Karl Regiment, 2 battalions
13th Regiment, 2 battalions
Brigade: General-Major Beckers
6th Duc Wilhelm Regiment, 2 battalions
7th Löwenstein Regiment, 2 battalions
Cavalry Brigade: General-Major Preysing
König Chevau-léger Regiment, 4 squadrons
Leiningen Chevau-léger Regiment, 4 squadrons
Artillery: Two 6-pound foot batteries, 6-pound horse battery, 18 guns
3rd Bavarian Division: General-Leutnant Bernhard Erasmus von Deroy
Brigade: General-Major Siebein
5th Buttler Light battalion
9th Isenburg Regiment, 2 battalions
10th Juncker Regiment, 2 battalions
Brigade: General-Major Vincenti
7th Günter Light battalion
5th Regiment, 2 battalions
14th Preysing Regiment, 2 battalions
Cavalry Brigade: General-Major Seydewitz
Taxis Dragoon Regiment, 4 squadrons
Bubenhoven Chevau-léger Regiment, 4 squadrons
Artillery: Two 6-pound foot batteries, 6-pound horse battery, 18 guns
Marshal Pierre Augereau (1,338 officers, 33,145 men present for duty, 1,172 detached, 15,250 sick)
Artillery, Train, Engineers: (44 officers, 1,346 men)
1st Division: General of Division Joseph Souham (169 officers, 5,213 men)
1st Light Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
42nd Line Infantry Regiment (three battalions)
3rd Light Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
7th Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
93rd Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
24th Dragoon Regiment
3rd Provsional Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
2nd Division: General of Division Domenico Pino (238 officers, 6,326 men)
1st Italian Light Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
2nd Italian Light Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
4th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
6th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
7th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Napoleone Italian Dragoon Regiment
3rd Division: General of Division Jean-Antoine Verdier (334 officers, 6,009 men)
This division included the remnants of the divisions of Generals of Division Annet Morio de L'isle and Giuseppe Lechi after the Siege of Gerona.
32nd Light Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
16th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
56th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
1st Neapolitan Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
2nd Neapolitan Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
2nd Westphalian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
3rd Westphalian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
4th Westphalian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
1st Berg Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
2nd Berg Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Würzburg Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Valais Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Ducal Saxon Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
La Tour d'Auvergne Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Neapolitan Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment
4th Division: General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (240 officers, 5,971 men)
7th Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
37th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
112th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Swiss Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Chasseurs de Montagne (one battalion)
Departmental Battalion (one battalion)
3rd Provisional Cuirassier Regiment
Other:
Headquarters: 67th Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion) (17 officers, 527 men)
Drafts en route: (32 officers, 1,608 men)
Drafts in Perpignan: (127 officers, 6,125 men)
General of Division Jean Reynier (15,008 infantry in 18 battalions, 2,186 cavalry in 16 squadrons)
Artillery: 50 guns
21st Division (Saxon): General-Leutnant Karl Christian Erdmann von Le Coq1st Brigade: General-Major von Steindel
Liebenau Grenadier Battalion (one battalion)
Prinz Friedrich Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Prinz Clemens Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
2nd Brigade: General-Major von Nostitz
Prinz Anton Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
1st Light Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Cavalry Brigade: General-Major von Gablenz
Prinz Clemens Uhlan Regiment (four squadrons)
Polenz Chevau-léger Regiment (four squadrons)
22nd Division (Saxon): General-Leutnant von Funck
2nd Brigade: General-Major von Sahr
Anger Grenadier Battalion (one battalion)
Spiegel Grenadier Battalion (one battalion)
2nd Light Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
1st(?) Brigade: General-Major von KlengelKönig Infantry Regiment (two battalions)
Niesemeuschel Infantry Regiment (one and a half battalions)
32nd Division (French): General of Division Pierre François Joseph Durutte35th Line Infantry Regiment (2 battalions)
131st Line Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
132nd Line Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
133rd Line Infantry Regiment (1 battalion)
Belle-Isle Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
Würzburg Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
General of Division Jean Reynier (12,837, 48 guns)
Corps Artillery:
One Saxon foot artillery battery (Six 12-pound guns)
One French foot artillery battery (Six 12-pound guns)
One Saxon horse artillery battery (Four guns)
13th Division (French): General of Division Armand Charles Guilleminot
Brigade: General of Brigade Antoine Gruyer
1st Light Infantry Regiment (4 battalions)
18th Light Infantry Regiment (1st and 2nd Battalions)
7th Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
156th Line Infantry Regiment (1st and 2nd Battalions)
Brigade: General of Brigade Louis-Francois, Baron Lejeune
52nd Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
67th Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
101st Line Infantry Regiment (2nd and 3rd Battalions)
Illyrian Infantry Regiment (2nd Battalion)
Artillery: One foot artillery battery (6 guns)
24th (Saxon) Division: General-Leutnant von Zeschau
1st Brigade: Oberst (colonel) von Brause
Lecoq Light Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Spiegel Grenadier Battalion Nr. 1 (one battalion)
Prinz Friedrich August Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Rechten Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Steindel Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
2nd Brigade: General-Major von Ryssel
Sahr Light Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Anger Grenadier Battalion Nr. 2 (one battalion)
Niesemueschel Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Prinz Anton Line Infantry Regiment (one battalion)
Feldjager company
Artillery: Two foot artillery batteries (16 guns)
32nd Division (French): General of Division Pierre François Joseph Durutte
Brigade: General of Brigade Marie Jean Baptiste Urbain Devaux
35th Light Infantry Regiment (1st Battalion)
131st Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
132nd Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
Brigade: General of Brigade Antoine Anatole Gedeon Jarry
36th Light Infantry Regiment (4th Battalion)
133rd Line Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
Würzburg Infantry Regiment (3rd Battalion)
Artillery:
One foot artillery battery (6 guns)
One horse artillery battery (6 guns)
27th (Saxon) Light Cavalry Brigade: Oberst von Lindenau
Hussar Regiment (8 squadrons)
Prinz Clemens Uhlan Regiment (5 squadrons)
One horse artillery battery (4 guns)