[175] Frankfort and the 1st of Hesse. See Sausez’s Régiment de Francfort, p. 30.
[176] The sixth regiment (1st Dragoons) was still absent at Miajadas.
[177] The division had started with nine battalions, but two (as will be remembered) were left behind at Truxillo, and two more at Merida. Those with Lasalle were the two Baden battalions, those with Latour-Maubourg a Nassau battalion, and one formed of the united light companies of the division. The second Nassau battalion was to the rear, with Villatte. See Sémélé’s narrative, p. 463.
[178] 5th Chasseurs, of the corps-cavalry of the 1st Corps.
[179] These were the regiments Infante and Almanza (from Denmark) and the new cavalry regiment of Toledo. Letter of Sir Benjamin D’Urban to Cradock, April 8, 1809 (Record Office).
[180] Its remainder was garrisoning Badajoz. Those on the field were Badajoz (two batts.), and 3rd of Seville (one batt.).
[181] Apparently these regiments were Albuquerque’s regiment from the Andalusian army, with the Cazadores de Llerena (a new Estremaduran corps) and Del Rey (one of the Baltic regiments).
[182] These were the two hussar regiments, Voluntarios de España, and Maria Luisa, the latter of which had been re-named ‘Hussars of Estremadura’.
[183] Rocca (of the 2nd Hussars), Mémoires de la Guerre d’Espagne, 80.
[184] Cuesta in his dispatch mentions that General Henestrosa, Captain Yturrigarey, and the English Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin D’Urban were the first three into the battery.