[187] For the difficulties of disembarkation see the interesting narrative of Landsheit of the 20th Dragoons, p. 248. He was himself upset in the surf.
[188] The force consisted of:—
| Infantry. | Cavalry. | Artillery. | ||
| (1) Division embarked at Cork: | ||||
| 20th Light Dragoons (only 180 with horses) | 394 | |||
| Artillery | 226 | |||
| 5th Regiment (1st batt.) | 990 | |||
| 9th Regiment (1st batt.) | 833 | |||
| 36th Regiment | 591 | |||
| 38th Regiment (1st batt.) | 957 | |||
| 40th Regiment (1st batt.) | 926 | |||
| 45th Regiment (1st batt.) | 670 | |||
| 60th Rifles (5th batt.) | 936 | |||
| 71st Regiment(1st batt.) | 903 | |||
| 91st Regiment(1st batt.) | 917 | |||
| 95th Rifles (2nd batt., four companies) | 400 | |||
| 8,123 | ||||
| (2) Spencer’s troops from Andalusia: | ||||
| Artillery | 245 | |||
| 6th Regiment (1st batt.) | 946 | |||
| 29th Regiment | 806 | |||
| 32nd Regiment (1st batt.) | 874 | |||
| 50th Regiment (1st batt.) | 948 | |||
| 82nd Regiment (1st batt.) | 929 | |||
| 4,503 | 394 | 471 | ||
A total of 12,626 infantry, 394 cavalry, 471 artillery = 13,491; adding forty-five men of the Staff Corps we get 13,536.
[189] To understand what Wellesley must have felt, we have only to read his rather captious letter of 1801 (Suppl. Disp., ii. 362) to his own brother concerning his merits, his promotion, and his career. The man who could so write must have felt the blow in the worst way.
[190] Well. Disp., iv. 43.
[191] Ibid., iv. 59; cf. pp. 168, 169.
[192] Ibid., iv. 168. Cf. the returns for Vimiero of men present, with the 180 horsed men brought from Ireland.
[193] Ibid., iv. 168.
[194] Ibid., iv. 59.