No. XIX. RETURNS OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING, OF THE ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF SIR A. WELLESLEY. BRITISH ORDER OF BATTLE. RORICA, 17th AUGUST, 1808. Extracted from the Adjutant-General's states. S 95th, 2d bn. 6th ditto (light), Brigadier-Gener 60th, 5th bn. Fane..... Artillery, 18 guns, 6 and 9 lbs. Cavalry Total British...... Portuguese, Colonel Trant... Infantry of the line. Light troops.. ..... Grand total, British and Portuguese, including sick men, &c. &c... 15,642 No. XXI. BRITISH ORDER OF BATTLE. VIMIERO, 21st AUGUST, 1808. ́6th ditto, Brigadier-General Fane... 60th 2293 Centre. 95th, 2d bn. -4953 52d, 2d bn. 2660 Reserve 5th brigade Brig.-Gen. C. Crawfurd.. 50th 2744 2744 Grand total, including sick, wounded, and missing.. 20,639 No. XXII. RETURN OF SIR HEW DALRYMPLE'S ARMY, OCT. 1, 1808. Grand total, including artificers, wagon train, &c., &c........ 83,129 No. XXIII. EMBARKATION RETURN OF THE FRENCH ARMY UNDER GENERAL JUNOT. Grand total, 25,747 men, 1655 horses, and 30 pieces of artillery. NOTE-On the staff of each division there are THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT FROM A MINUTE MADE BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK IN 1808 Proves that sixty thousand men could have been provided for the campaign of 1808-9 in Spain, without detriment to other services: Cavalry....... 1,640 "There are at present in Portugal {avantry, 34 battalions. 29,808 81,446 "Under orders to embark...... Cavalry.. {Infantry.. Total.... 8,410 14,829 ..11,419 46,275 Men. TOTAL. Horses. Men. 13 CRIXI NAIS. "Of this force the 20th dragoons and eight battalions should remain in Portugal. The disposable force would then be "To this may be added, four regiments of cavalry and the two brigades of guards.... Grand total...... 7,073 45,428 "When to this you add four battalions of infantry, which may be spared, and the artillery, it will form a corps of about sixty thousand rank and file.” Note. The details of names and strength of the regiments are omitted to save space. 8d light dragoons K.G.L., 15th light dragoons, 10th, 18th, 7th hussars. Dowman's and Evelin's troops of horse artillery, 12 pieces. RETURN OF SIR JOHN MOORE'S ARMY, DECEMBER 19, 1808. Extracted from the Adjutant-General's morning state of that day. Note. Of 66 guns, 42 were attached to the divisions, the remainder in reserve, with the exception of one brigade of 3 lbs. No. XXVI. THE following General Return, extracted from especial regimental reports, received at the Horse Guards, contains the whole number of non-commissioned officers and men, cavalry and infantry, lost during Sir John Moore's campaign : : Infantry... ... 95) Total. 18021897 Lost at or previous to the arrival of the Cavalry..... army at the position of Lugo..... Of this number 200 were left in the wine-vaults of Bembibre, and nearly 500 were stragglers from the troops that marched to Vigo. Lost between the departure of the army Cavalry. from Lugo and the embarkation at Coruña. Grand total. ...... 2627 Infantry.. }} 2636 4033 Of the whole number, above 800 contrived to escape to Portugal, and being united with the sick left by the regiments in that country, they formed a corps of 1876 men, which being re-embodied under the name of the battalions of detachments, did good service at Oporto and Talavera. The pieces of artillery abandoned during the retreat were six 3-pounders. These guns were landed at Coruña without the General's knowledge: they never went beyond Villa Franca, and not being horsed, they were thrown down the rocks when the troops quitted that town. The guns used in the battle of Coruña were spiked and thrown into the sea. N. B. Some trifling errors may possibly have crept into the regimental states in consequence of the difficulty of ascertaining exactly where each man was lost, but the inaccuracies could not affect the total amount above fifty men more or less. |