XIII
FRENCH LOSSES AT BUSSACO
| Killed or prisoners. | Wounded. | Total. | |||
| Officers. | Men. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| 2nd CORPS. | |||||
| Merle’s Division | |||||
| Sarrut’s Brigade: | |||||
| 2nd Léger | 2 | 81 | 16 | 209 | 308 |
| 36th Ligne | 6 | 178 | 22 | 277 | 483 |
| Graindorge’s Brigade: | |||||
| 4th Léger | 11 | 118 | 9 | 110 | 248 |
| Graindorge’s Brigade: | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Divisional Total | 19 | 377 | 47 | 598 | 1,041 |
| Heudelet’s Division | |||||
| Foy’s Brigade: | |||||
| 17th Léger | 2 | 60 | 20 | 271 | 353 |
| 70th Ligne | 6 | 54 | 11 | 246 | 317 |
| Arnaud’s Brigade: | |||||
| 31st Léger | 3 | 67 | 7 | 219 | 296 |
| 47th Ligne | – | – | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Artillery | – | – | – | 6 | 6 |
| Divisional Total | 11 | 181 | 41 | 745 | 978 |
| Corps Troops: | |||||
| Engineers | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 |
| Train | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Grand Total | 30 | 560 | 88 | 1,345 | 2,023 |
| [Signed: Barbot, Saldere, Oct. 1.] | |||||
This return from the Archives du Ministère de la Guerre omits the État-Major, which had one officer killed and four wounded, and the Cavalry, which, though in reserve, had some slight losses, for Martinien’s Liste des Officiers shows that the 8th Dragoons and the 1st Hussars had each one officer wounded, and that Pierre Soult, the general commanding the brigade, was also hit; probably ten or a dozen casualties among the men are implied. But the casualties must have been very few in the mounted arm. Fririon, Masséna’s chief of the Staff, says that the prisoners of the second corps came to 15 officers and 349 rank and file, many of them wounded. If so, the killed must have amounted to 15 officers and 211 men.
| Killed or prisoners. | Wounded. | Total. | |||
| Officers. | Men. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| 6th CORPS. | |||||
| Marchand’s Division | |||||
| Maucune’s Brigade: | |||||
| 6th Léger | 2 | 70 | 12 | 281 | 365 |
| 69th Ligne | 2 | 44 | 18 | 416 | 480 |
| Marcognet’s Brigade: | |||||
| 39th Ligne | – | 19 | 3 | 213 | 235 |
| 76th Ligne | – | 7 | 3 | 83 | 93 |
| Divisional Total | 4 | 140 | 36 | 993 | 1,173 |
| Mermet’s Division | |||||
| Bardet’s Brigade: | |||||
| 25th Léger | – | 3 | – | 20 | 23 |
| 27th Ligne | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Labassée’s Brigade: | |||||
| (50th, 59th) no losses | – | – | – | – | – |
| Divisional Total | – | 3 | 1 | 20 | 24 |
| Loison’s Division | |||||
| Simon’s Brigade: | |||||
| 26th Ligne | 6 | 37 | 15 | 225 | 283 |
| Légion du Midi | 1 | 32 | 5 | 273 | 311 |
| Légion Hanovrienne | 4 | 26 | 5 | 182 | 217 |
| Ferey’s Brigade: | |||||
| 32nd Léger | 2 | 13 | 3 | 95 | 113 |
| 66th Ligne | 5 | 15 | 15 | 123 | 158 |
| 82nd Ligne | 3 | 18 | 4 | 145 | 170 |
| Divisional Total | 21 | 141 | 47 | 1,043 | 1,252 |
| État-Major: | – | – | 7 | – | 7 |
| Grand Total | 25 | 284 | 91 | 2,056 | 2,456 |
No return from the Artillery, part of which was engaged beside Moura, and must have had a few casualties, like that of the 2nd Corps.
8th CORPS. Junot’s corps having been in reserve, we should not have expected to find any casualties, but Martinien’s lists show a few officers—five in all—hit, in the 28th and 86th Ligne, besides an aide-de-camp of Clausel wounded. This must mean that the corps caught a few stray shells when it was brought up to cover the retreat of Ney’s routed divisions. It would be a minimum to estimate the losses at sixty. Three of Masséna’s adjoints de l’État-Major, and an officer from the Grand Park, are also mentioned as wounded in Martinien’s lists.
The total of the French losses therefore must have been quite 4,600 killed, wounded, and missing. The return accounts for no prisoners from the 6th Corps. But General Simon was certainly captured, and he is not likely to have been the sole prisoner.