XXII
FRENCH LOSSES IN THE CAMPAIGN OF THE PYRENEES
[From Soult’s Official Return, lent me by Mr. Fortescue.]
| Killed. | Wounded. | Prisoners. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off. | Men. | Off. | Men. | Off. | Men. | Total. | |
| I. Reille’s Wing: | |||||||
| 1st Division (Foy) | 6 | 78 | 9 | 393 | — | 69 | 555 |
| 7th Division (Maucune) | 14 | 189 | 27 | 500 | 25 | 1,102 | 1,857 |
| 9th Division (Lamartinière) | 10 | 79 | 16 | 657 | 3 | 216 | 981 |
| Total Reille’s Wing | 30 | 346 | 52 | 1,550 | 28 | 1,387 | 3,393 |
| II. D’Erlon’s ‘Centre’: | |||||||
| 2nd Division (Darmagnac) | 13 | 191 | 65 | 1,925 | 1 | 30 | 2,225 |
| 3rd Division (Abbé) | 9 | 130 | 21 | 560 | 1 | 29 | 750 |
| 6th Division (Maransin) | 11 | 105 | 34 | 783 | — | 126 | 1,059 |
| Total D’Erlon’s ‘Centre’ | 33 | 426 | 120 | 3,268 | 2 | 185 | 4,034 |
| III. Clausel’s Wing: | |||||||
| 4th Division (Conroux) | 16 | 145 | 35 | 1,432 | 12 | 747 | 2,387 |
| 5th Division (Vandermaesen) | 16 | 153 | 30 | 978 | 2 | 301 | 1,480 |
| 8th Division (Taupin) | 6 | 125 | 38 | 1,007 | — | 26 | 1,202 |
| Total Clausel’s Wing | 38 | 423 | 103 | 3,417 | 14 | 1,074 | 5,069 |
| IV. Cavalry | — | 12 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 19 | 67 |
| General Total of Army | 101 | 1,207 | 277 | 8,268 | 45 | 2,665 | 12,563 |
No figures for Artillery, Engineers, Train, or other auxiliary services, or for General Staff. Martinien’s lists supply 4 casualties of generals (Conroux, Schwitter, Rignoux, Meunier), and 12 of staff officers. There must have been appreciable casualties in the other services, especially men captured from the Train at the Yanzi disaster.
Soult’s figures are always unreliable (as witness Albuera). The details above contain some ‘moral impossibilities’—e. g. the Return gives 63rd Line of Abbé’s Division 193 casualties, not including one officer. But Martinien’s lists supply one officer-casualty at Maya, two at Beunza, two at Yanzi. Similarly 58th Line of Conroux has in the Official Return 473 casualties, including only 5 officers—1 wounded and 4 prisoners. A reference to Martinien shows 2 officers killed (one the colonel!) and 5 wounded—adding the 4 prisoners we get 11 officer-casualties to 473 men: quite a possible percentage, which Soult’s is not.
Captain Vidal de la Blache (i. p. 280) gives a casualty list differing slightly from the above. It runs: Foy 556, Maucune 2,457, Lamartinière 981, Darmagnac 2,225, Abbé 253 [quite impossible], Maransin 1,059, Conroux 2,387, Vandermaesen 1,480, Taupin 1,202, Cavalry 72; total 12,071.