[220] It may be well to give Wellesley’s army at Vimiero:—
| Cavalry, 20th Light Dragoons | 240 | |||
| Artillery, three batteries | 226 | |||
| 1st Brigade, Hill: | ||||
| 5th (1st batt.) | 944 | |||
| 9th (1st batt.) | 761 | |||
| 38th (1st batt.) | 953 | = | 2,658 | |
| 2nd Brigade, Ferguson: | ||||
| 36th | 591 | |||
| 71st (1st batt.) | 935 | = | 2,449 | |
| 3rd Brigade, Nightingale: | ||||
| 29th | 616 | |||
| 82nd (1st batt.) | 904 | = | 1,520 | |
| 4th Brigade, Bowes: | ||||
| 6th (1st batt.) | 943 | |||
| 32nd (1st batt.) | 870 | = | 1,813 | |
| 5th Brigade, C. Crawfurd: | ||||
| 45th (1st batt.) | 915 | |||
| 91st | 917 | = | 1,832 | |
| 6th Brigade, Fane: | ||||
| 50th (1st batt.) | 945 | |||
| 60th (5th batt.) | 604 | |||
| 95th (2nd batt., four companies) | 456 | = | 2,005 | |
| 7th Brigade, Anstruther: | ||||
| 9th (2nd batt.) | 633 | |||
| 43rd (2nd batt.) | 721 | |||
| 52nd (2nd batt.) | 654 | |||
| 97th (2nd batt.) | 695 | = | 2,703 | |
| 8th Brigade, Acland: | ||||
| 2nd | 731 | |||
| 20th (seven and a half companies) | 401 | |||
| 95th (1st batt., two companies) | 200 | = | 1,332 | |
| Total British present | 16,778 | |||
We have also to add the Portuguese of Trant, 2,000 or 2,100 men, making 18,800 for the whole force.
Napier’s estimate on p. 499 of vol. i. of his Peninsular War, is unfortunately quite inaccurate; he has—
(1) Omitted to deduct from each regiment the losses at Roliça, 474 in all.
(2) Counted the 50th Regiment twice. It had been moved from Catlin Crawfurd’s to Fane’s brigade the day after Roliça, in exchange for the 45th. Napier has inserted it, and counted it, in both places with its 945 men.
(3) Forgotten that Spencer’s artillery, 245 men, had been left behind for want of horses.
(4) Omitted (very excusably) to note that two and a half companies of the 20th Regiment were not ashore yet, having drifted away on a disabled transport, so that the regiment is given 135 too strong.
There is therefore a total excess of no less than 1,799 British troops. On the other hand, the Portuguese of Trant are probably understated by some 350 bayonets.
[221] Leach’s Sketches, p. 50. He was himself on the line of pickets, 200 strong, which held the wooded height from which Junot afterwards viewed the battle.