In researching a certain captain Czarnota de Viclinsky (4e régiment étranger, ex régiment de Prusse), I found that he was put to trial and shot after abandoning fort Ragusa in Spain (may 1812). Foy's ordre du jour was particularly harsh with the troops that followed their commander: they lost their seniority, grades, and were put at the "queue d'une compagnie du centre" (see Vie militaire du général Foy, page 376). Does this mean that the better troops were those on the first lines while the, I imagine, greener men were in the last row?

Jorge