22 NAPOLEQW8 CAMPAIGN IN POLAND.

dep&ts in Prance.* On the 5th January, 1807, he calculates
there should be with the Grand Army 24 regiments of dragoons
and cuirassiers, 18 of chasseurs, 9 of hussars, making 51,000
men, at the nominal strength of 1000 per regiment. They
would not, however, amount to more than 36,000 actually
present. A few days earlier he had said he expected rein-
forcements of 16,000 cavalry during the year.f So urgent
was the need for cavalry that he ordered Kellerman to send
the men forward in batches of even 15 or 16, as they were
collected.

Cavalry was not required to any great extent in Italy.
The south was too mountainous for it, the north too much
intersected with canals and vineyards. Therefore, on the
4th November, 1806, he writes to Joseph that he has taken
8 French cavalry regiments from the army of Northern Italy,
trusting to Joseph's replacing them with 8 out of 12 regi-
ments which he had in Naples.

The army in Northern Italy was to be reinforced by
20,000 men from Prance in the beginning of December.^
Prom Spain the Emperor directed Talleyrand to demand
10,000 infantry and 4000 cavalry, and the 6000 Spaniards
in Italy were ordered to march up to Germany.§

Such were the principal methods by which the Emperor
increased his armies in preparation for his first advance
against the Eussians. In the spring he was compelled to
make still further demands on the military strength of
Prance. They will be described later in their proper
chronological order.

,' ,1 He was able by the end of November to count on 80,000
I; men towards Warsaw, whilst another 80,000 were following
" in second line.

"Napoleon evinced, at all times, extraordinary care for
the measures to be taken to provide for the sustenance of

* Gorr 11,556, to Dejean. f Oorr. 11,544, to Dejean.

t Corn 11,172, to Eugene Beauharnais, dated 4th November, 1806.

§ Corr. 11,476, dated 15th December, 1806, to Tallyrand.