THE SPANISH ARMIES, OCT.-NOV. 1808
N.B.—* signifies an old line or light regiment; † a militia battalion; ‡ a newly raised corps.
1. THE ARMY OF GALICIA [Return of Oct. 31].
General Blake.
| Officers. | Men. | |
| Vanguard Brigade, General Mendizabal: | ||
| *2nd Catalonian Light Infantry (one batt.); *Volunteers of Navarre (one batt.); *two batts. of United Grenadiers; *Saragossa (one batt.); *one company of sappers | 87 | 2,797 |
| 1st Division, General Figueroa: | ||
| *Rey (two batts.); *Majorca (one batt.); *Hibernia (one batt.); *one batt. of united light companies; †Mondoñedo; ‡Batallon Literario; *one company of sappers | 86 | 3,932 |
| 2nd Division, General Martinengo: | ||
| *Navarre (two batts.); *Naples (two batts.); †Pontevedra; †Segovia; ‡‘Volunteers of Victory’ (one batt.); sappers, one company; Cavalry: *Reina (two squadrons); *Montesa (one squadron); and one detachment of mixed regiments. [The cavalry was 302 sabres in all.] | 117 | 4,949 |
| 3rd Division, General Riquelme: | ||
| *Gerona Light Infantry (one batt.); *Seville (two batts.); *Marines (three batts.); †Compostella (one batt.); one company of sappers | 119 | 4,677 |
| 4th Division, General Carbajal: | ||
| *Barbastro Light Infantry (one batt.); *Principe (two batts.); *Toledo (two batts.); *two batts. of United Grenadiers; *Aragon (one batt.); †Lugo; †Santiago | 143 | 3,388 |
| 5th Division [from Denmark], General Conde de San Roman: | ||
| *Zamora (three batts.); *Princesa (three batts.); *1st Barcelona Light Infantry (one batt.); *1st Catalonian Light Infantry (one batt.); one company of sappers | 159 | 5,135 |
| Asturian Division: General Acevedo: | ||
| *Hibernia (two batts.); †Oviedo; ‡Castropol; ‡Grado; ‡Cangas de Onis; ‡Cangas de Tineo; ‡Lena; ‡Luarca; ‡Salas; ‡Villaviciosa | 233 | 7,400 |
| Reserve Brigade, General Mahy: | ||
| *Volunteers of the Crown (one batt.); *United Grenadiers (one batt.); †Militia Grenadiers (two batts.); ‡Batallon del General (one batt.) | 90 | 2,935 |
| Detached Troops on the line of communications—Reynosa, Burgos, Astorga: | ||
| *Saragossa (one batt.); *Buenos Ayres (one batt.); *Volunteers of the Crown (one batt.); †Santiago; †Tuy; †Salamanca; ‡Batallon del General (one batt.); and seven detached companies of various corps | 181 | 5,577 |
| Detached troops left with the Artillery Reserve: | ||
| †Betanzos; †Monterrey | 40 | 900 |
| Artillery Reserve (thirty-eight guns) | 33 | 1,000 |
| Total | 1,288 | 42,690 |
N.B.—The four cavalry regiments from Denmark, Rey, Infante, Villaviciosa, and Almanza did not join Blake, being without horses, but marched on foot to Estremadura to get mounted. They had 147 officers and 2,252 men.
2. THE ARMY OF ARAGON.
General Joseph Palafox.
| Men. | |
| 1st Division, General O’Neille: | |
| *Spanish Guards (one batt.), 609; *Estremadura (one batt.), 600; *1st Volunteers of Aragon (one batt.), 1,141; ‡1st Light Infantry of Saragossa, 614; ‡4th Tercio of Aragon, 1,144; ‡2nd of Valencia, 869; ‡1st Volunteers of Murcia, 1,029; ‡2nd ditto, 968; ‡Huesca, 1,219; ‡Cazadores de Fernando VII (Aragonese), 386; ‡Suizos de Aragon, 825; ‡Escopeteros de Navarra, 227; *Dragoons ‘del Rey,’ 169; artillery, 79; sappers, 47. | |
| Total | 9,926 |
| [From a return of Nov. 1, 1808, in the English Record Office.] | |
| 2nd Division, General Saint March: | |
| *Volunteers of Castile (three batts.); †Soria; ‡Turia (three batts.); ‡Volunteers of Borbon (one batt.); ‡Alicante (three batts.); ‡Chelva (one batt.); ‡Cazadores de Fernando VII (Valencian) (one batt.); ‡Segorbe (one batt.); *Dragoons of Numancia (620 sabres); one company of sappers. | |
| Total | 9,060 |
| [This total is from Vaughan’s diary. He was present when Palafox reviewed the division on Nov. 1, and took down the figures.] | |
| 3rd Division, General Conde de Lazan [detached to Catalonia, Nov. 10]: | |
| ‡1st Volunteers of Saragossa, 638; ‡3rd Volunteers of Aragon, 593; ‡Fernando VII de Aragon, 648; ‡Daroca, 503; ‡La Reunion, 1,286; ‡Reserva del General, 934; artillery, 64; one troop of cavalry (Cazadores de Fernando VII), 22. | |
| Total | 4,688 |
| [The figures are from a table in Arteche, iii. 469.] | |
| Reserve at Saragossa: | |
| There was a mass of troops in the Aragonese capital which had not yet been brigaded, and in part had not even been armed or clothed in October. They included the following regiments at least: 2nd Volunteers of Aragon; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Tercios of Aragon; 2nd Light Battalion of Saragossa; and the battalions of Calatayud, Doyle, Barbastro, Jaca, Tauste, Teruel, and Torrero; besides (in all probability) some eight or ten other corps which are found existing in December, when the second siege began, though they cannot be proved to have existed in October. In that month, however, there must have been at least 10,000 armed men in the Aragonese reserve, perhaps as many as 15,000. | |
Total of the Army of Aragon, at least 33,674 men, of which only 789 were cavalry.