Total Luxembourgish casualties amounted to 75 police and soldiers captured, six police wounded, and one soldier wounded.[2] At 08:00, elements of the French 3rd Light Cavalry Division [fr] of General Robert Petiet [fr], supported by the 1st Spahi Brigade of Colonel Jouffault[citation needed] and the 2nd company of the 5th Armoured Battalion, crossed the southern border to conduct a probe of German forces; these units later retreated behind the Maginot Line. By the evening of 10 May 1940, most of the country, with the exception of the south, was occupied by German forces. More than 90,000 civilians evacuated from the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette as a consequence of the advance.