[209] Thiébault solemnly states our loss at 2,000 men! Mémoires, iv. 186.
[210] That corps lost no less than 190 officers and men, among whom were six officers taken prisoners.
[211] The 5th, 9th, 29th, 82nd, 5/60th, and four companies of the 2/95th, in all 4,635 men. They lost respectively 46, 72, 190, 25, 66, and 42 men, or 441 in all; while the rest of the army (ten British and four Portuguese battalions) only lost the remaining 38 of the total of 479 casualties suffered on the 17th, i.e. were not really engaged.
[212] As Foy well puts it, the idea was that ‘le Portugal était dans Lisbonne, et Lisbonne était à elle seule tout le Portugal’ (iv. 283).
[213] See his curious criticism on Junot, recorded by Thiébault in iv. 268, 269 of his Mémoires.
[214] For clearness it may be worth while to give the dislocation of Junot’s army on the day of the battle of Vimiero, adding the force of each unit on July 15, the last available return.
| Men. | Station. | ||||
| 1st Division, Delaborde:— | |||||
| Brigade Avril: | |||||
| 15th Line (3rd batt.) | 1,086 | At Saccavem and in Lisbon city. | |||
| 47th Line (2nd batt.) | 1,541 | In forts south of the Tagus-mouth. | |||
| 70th Line (1st and 2nd batts.) | 2,358 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| Brigade Brennier: | |||||
| 86th Line (1st and 2nd batts.) | 2,501 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero (except four companies left at Elvas). | |||
| 4th Swiss (1st batt.) | 985 | Six companies at Peniche. Two present at Vimiero. | |||
| 2nd Division, Loison:— | |||||
| Brigade Thomières: | |||||
| ‘1st Provisional Léger’— | |||||
| 2nd Léger (3rd batt.) | 1,075 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| 4th Léger (3rd batt.) | 1,098 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| ‘2nd Provisional Léger’— | |||||
| 12th Léger (3rd batt.) | 1,253 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| 15th Léger (3rd batt.) | 1,305 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| Brigade Charlot: | |||||
| 32nd Line (3rd batt.) | 1,034 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| 58th Line (3rd batt.) | 1,428 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| 2nd Swiss (2nd batt.) | 1,103 | In garrison at Elvas. | |||
| 3rd Division, Travot:— | |||||
| Brigade Graindorge: | |||||
| 31st Léger (3rd batt.) | 846 | { | Partly on the heights of Almada, partly guarding the Spanish prisoners at Lisbon. | ||
| 32nd Léger (3rd batt.) | 1,099 | ||||
| 26th Line (3rd batt.) | 517 | At Belem. | |||
| 66th Line (3rd and 4th batts.) | 1,125 | At Cascaes. | |||
| Brigade Fusier: | |||||
| 82nd Line (3rd batt.) | 963 | Field-army. Present at Vimiero. | |||
| Légion du Midi | 842 | At Fort San Julian. | |||
| 1st Hanoverian Legion | 804 | At Santarem. | |||
All the four cavalry regiments of Margaron’s division, 1,754 sabres, were present at Vimiero, save one troop of dragoons captured with Quesnel at Oporto.
[215] I cannot make out whether this was the 31st or the 32nd Léger. Foy and Thiébault omit to give the detail.
[216] Junot had created two of these regiments of grenadiers, each of two battalions. The second was at this moment with Loison.