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APPENDICES RELATING TO THE TALAVERA CAMPAIGN

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THE BRITISH FORCE AT TALAVERA
FROM THE MORNING STATE OF JULY 25, 1809

Present and fit for Duty.

CAVALRY DIVISION (Lieut.-Gen. Payne).
Fane’s Brigade:
3rd Dragoon Guards525
4th Dragoons545
Cotton’s Brigade:
14th Light Dragoons464
16th Light Dragoons525
Anson’s Brigade:
23rd Light Dragoons459
1st Light Dragoons K.G.L.451
Total Cavalry2,969
INFANTRY.
1st (Sherbrooke’s) Division.
H. Campbell’s Brigade:
1st batt. Coldstream Guards970
1st batt. 3rd Guards1,019
One company 5/60th Foot56
2,045
Cameron’s Brigade:
1/61st Foot778
2/83rd Foot535
One company 5/60th Foot51
1,364
Langwerth’s Brigade:
1st Line batt. K.G.L.604
2nd Line batt. K.G.L.678
Light Companies K.G.L.106
1,388
Low’s Brigade:
5th Line batt. K.G.L.610
7th Line batt. K.G.L.557
1,167
Total of the 1st Division5,964
2nd (Hill’s) Division.
Tilson’s Brigade:
1/3rd Foot746
2/48th Foot567
2/66th Foot526
One company 5/60th52
1,891
R. Stewart’s Brigade:
29th Foot598
1/48th Foot807
1st batt. of Detachments609
2,014
Total of the 2nd Division3,905
3rd (Mackenzie’s) Division.
Mackenzie’s Brigade:
2/24th Foot787
2/31st Foot733
1/45th Foot756
2,276
Donkin’s Brigade:
2/87th599
1/88th599
Five companies 5/60th273
1,471
Total of the 3rd Division3,747
4th (Campbell’s) Division.
A. Campbell’s Brigade:
2/7th Foot431
2/53rd Foot537
One company 5/60th64
1,032
Kemmis’s Brigade:
1/40th Foot745
97th Foot502
2nd batt. of Detachments625
One company 5/60th Foot56
1,928
Total of the 4th Division2,960
ARTILLERY.
British:
Three batteries, Lawson, Sillery, Elliot681
German:
Two batteries, Rettberg and Heyse330
Total of Artillery1,011
ENGINEERS,22
STAFF CORPS,63
Total Present20,641

The Army had also sick left in Portugal, about 3,246: sick at Plasencia and Talavera about 1,149: on detachment in Portugal about 1,396: on detachment in Spain about 107. Total absent or non-effective 5,898. The newly arrived regiments at Lisbon, and the troops on their way to the front under R. Craufurd are, of course, left out of this return.

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THE ARMY OF ESTREMADURA AT TALAVERA

[From an unpublished document in the Deposito de la Guerra, Madrid.]