7th of the Line (1st and 2nd batts.)1,785
16th of the Line (3rd batt.)789=2,574
and Bessières’ Cavalry:
3rd Provisional Cuirassiers (minus one squadron)205
3rd Provisional Chasseurs416=621
3,195
with eight guns.

[300] Schwartz’s force was:—

2nd Swiss (3rd batt.)580
1st Neapolitans (1st and 2nd batts.)1,944
1st Italian Velites (1st batt.)519=3,043
One squadron of the 3rd Provisional Cuirassiers 204
3,247
with four guns.

[That the detached squadron were cuirassiers is proved by Arteche, ii. 86. The French authorities do not give the regiment.]

Foy makes the odd mistake of saying ‘trois bataillons du deuxième Suisse,’ instead of ‘le troisième bataillon du deuxième Suisse.’ There was only one battalion of this regiment with Duhesme.

[301] One gun was lost after leaving Esparraguera by the fall of a rickety bridge over the Abrera (Arteche, ii. 93, 94). Foy and other French narrators do not mention this loss.

[302] For details see Arteche, ii. 98, 99, and Foy, iv. 150, who adds that Arbos ‘fut pillé et réduit en cendres, conformément aux usages de la guerre’(!)

[303]

Brigade of Milosewitz:
2nd Italian Line (2nd batt.)740
4th Italian Line (3rd batt.)587
5th Italian Line (2nd batt.)806=2,133
Brigade of Schwartz:
1st Neapolitans (1st and 2nd batts.)1,944
1st Italian Velites (1st batt.)519
(Minus 300 men lost in the actions at Bruch on June 6 and 14) =2,163
Cavalry:
3rd Provisional Cuirassiers409
3rd Provisional Chasseurs416
Italian Chasseurs à Cheval504
2nd Neapolitan Chasseurs à Cheval504
(Minus one squadron left at Barcelona, say 200) =1,517
Cavalry:150
5,963

[304] Napier says that the assault was delivered at seven in the evening, before dark (i. 79); but all the Spanish accounts speak of it as having taken place long after dark, though before midnight (cf. Arteche, Toreño, and Minali, quoted by the former); so does Foy (iv. 158), who fixes the hour as ‘between nine and ten.’