Second Brigade—Brigadier-General J. Walsh: 1st Battalion 28th (Gloucester) and 79th (Cameron Highlanders).
Left Division: Sir David Baird.
Third Brigade—Major-General Grosvenor: 1st Battalion 4th (King's Own Lancaster) and 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Fourth Brigade—Major-General Spencer: 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry), 50th (Royal West Kent), and 82nd (South Lancashire).
Fifth Brigade—Brigadier-General Macfarlane: 1st Battalion 7th (Royal Fusiliers) and 1st Battalion 8th (King's Liverpool Regiment).
Reserve Division—Sir Arthur Wellesley: 1st Battalion 43rd (Oxford Light Infantry), 2nd Battalion 52nd (Oxford Light Infantry), 1st Battalion 92nd (Gordon Highlanders), and 1st Battalion 95th (Rifle Brigade).
There was, in addition, a strong division of the King's German Legion, under Lieutenant-General the Earl of Rosslyn, comprising three regiments of cavalry, ten battalions of infantry, two batteries of horse and four companies of field artillery. For siege purposes, ten companies of the Royal Artillery, under Major-General Bloomfield, and three of Royal Engineers, under Colonel D'Arcey, accompanied the force.
On July 18 the troops, numbering upwards of 27,000 men, embarked on 377 transports, and on the 15th of the following month disembarked without opposition at Wibeck, a few miles from Copenhagen. On the 28th of the month the Reserve Division, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, had a sharp brush with the Danes, capturing ten guns and 1,500 prisoners; and on September 1, the siege-works being complete, the city was summoned to surrender. General Peiman, the Danish Commander-in-Chief, returned a bombastic reply, intimating that the Danes were ready to die to a man rather than surrender their capital or their fleet. On the following day the batteries opened fire, and on the 5th the General surrendered unconditionally. Our trophies included eighteen line-of-battle ships and fifteen frigates, the prize-money accruing to the two Commanders-in-Chief amounting to upwards of £300,000! On October 15 the troops re-embarked, and in the course of the following month troops and prizes arrived in England. It is worthy of note that of the huge convoy of 377 transports, few of which exceeded 500 tons burden, only six were wrecked. Five, unfortunately, were picked up by French frigates.
Casualties during the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.