No. XXI. BRITISH ORDER OF BATTLE. VIMIERO, 21st AUGUST, 1808. RETURN OF SIR HEW DALRYMPLE'S ARMY, OCT. 1, 1808. No. XXIII. EMBARKATION RETURN OF THE FRENCH ARMY UNDER GENERAL JUNOT. Grand total, 25,747 men, 1,655 horses, and 30 pieces of artillery. 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 : MEN. TOTAL. HORSES. CRIMI MEN. NALS. 13 « Of this force the 20th dragoons and eight battalions should remain in Portugal. The disposable force would then be « 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. » The details of names and strength of the regiments are omitted to 3d light dragoons K. G. L., 15th light dragoons, 10th, 18th, 7th hussars. RETURN OF SIR JOHN MOORE'S ARMY, DECEMBER 19, 1808. Note.-Of 66 guns, 42 were attached to the divisions, the remainder in reserve, with the exception of one brigade of 3lbs. 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 : Of this number 200 were left in the wine-vaults of Bembibre, and nearly 500 were stragglers from the troops that marched to Vigo. 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 1,876 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 Villafranca, 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 buried in the sand, but the French discovered them. N.B. Some trifling errours 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. No. XXVII. The following states of the Spanish armies are not strictly accurate, because the original reports from whence they have been drawn were generally very loose, often inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory nevertheless, it is believed that the approximation is sufficiently close for any useful purpose. STATE 1. : Numbers of the Spanish armies in October, 1808, according to the reports transmitted to sir John Moore by the military agents. Real numbers of the Spanish armies in line of battle, in the months of October, |