Two more field batteries joined the army at the Lines after its retreat: that of Captain Francisco Cypriano Pinto (6-pounders) was allotted to Dickson’s division; the other (no captain, 9-pounders) joined Arentschildt’s command.
The rest of the Artillery at Lisbon was utilized as garrison-artillery for the Lines, receiving into its ranks an immense proportion of half-trained volunteers from the Militia and Ordenança, so that the whole can hardly be considered as forming part of the regular army. I have reckoned it into the militia force in the preceding table. The districts served by this artillery, the commanders of the districts, and the number of effective men in each were on Nov. 15, 1810:—
| Regulars. | Militia- volunteers. | Total. | |
| Alhandra Forts—Major João C. Pinto | 258 | 182 | 440 |
| Bucellas Forts—Colonel Romão de Arriada | 218 | 847 | 1,065 |
| Monte Agraça Forts—Major J. J. da Cruz | 150 | 300 | 450 |
| Torres Vedras Forts—Captain F. J. V. Barreiros | 150 | 248 | 398 |
| Mafra Forts—Major Caetano P. Xavier | 233 | 305 | 538 |
| 1,009 | 1,882 | 2,891 |
Adding these to the 701 men of the nine field batteries we get 3,592 in all, of whom 1,710 were regulars.
The officer in command of the whole Portuguese artillery was Marechal de Campo J. A. da Roza. Colonel Romão de Arriada commanded the 1st Regiment.
The 4th Regiment of the Portuguese artillery, that of the Oporto district, furnished only one battery (that of Captain Passos) to the army of Wellington, the rest of it being either serving with Silveira’s army in the north, or with Trant, or doing garrison duty at Oporto. This regiment had also contributed to the lost garrison of Almeida.
The 3rd Regiment supplied no men to the field army or the garrison of the Torres Vedras Lines, being absorbed in garrisoning Abrantes, Elvas, Campo Mayor, and the other places on the frontier south of the Tagus.
INDEX
- Abrantes, Duke of, see [Junot].
- Abrantes, Laure, Duchess of, her letters, [447].
- Abrantes, fortress of, [189];
- Agar, captain Pedro, made one of the Spanish Regency, [518].
- Agueda river, Craufurd’s operations on the, [230]-[8].
- Alba de Tormes, battle of, [99]-[100].
- Albuquerque, Duke of, commands Army of Estremadura, [84], [97];
- Alcala la Real, combat of, [150].
- Alcañiz, operations around, [300], [305].
- Alcoentre, skirmish at, [413].
- Alemquer, combat of, [413].
- Alhandra, the position at, [425];
- Hill at, [427].
- Almaraz, operations around, [97].
- Almazan, combat of, [490].
- Almeida, frontier fortress of Portugal, [188];
- Almenara, José Hervas, Marquis of, Spanish envoy at Paris, [50]-[89].
- Alorna, general, Marquis of, Portuguese adviser of Masséna, [163];
- Alpujarras, insurrections in the, [150], [324]-[7].
- Alva, river, Wellington’s position on the, [190], [346].
- Alvarez, Mariano de Castro, governor of Gerona, [22]-[7], [30]-[5], [47]-[57];
- America, revolt of the Spanish Colonies in, [513];
- Andalusia, conquest of, by the French, [114];
- Anglona, Prince of, commands Galician cavalry, [75], [78].
- Anson, George, cavalry general, on retreat to Torres Vedras, [402]-[13];
- pursues the French to Santarem, [469].
- Araçena, combat of, [215].
- Aragon, Suchet’s conquest of, [11]-[14], [282];
- later insurrection in, [503].
- Aranjuez, Areizaga’s operations round, [87]-[9].
- Arce, Antonio, general, commands in Asturias, [217];
- deposed, [218].
- Areizaga, Carlos, general, commands army in La Mancha, [73], [84];
- Argüelles, Agustin, Liberal leader in the Cortes, [519].
- Astorga, fortress, [164], [220];
- Asturias, Bonnet in, [217]-[20];
- exploits of Porlier in, [485].
- Augereau, Pierre François Charles, Marshal, duc de Castiglione, supersedes St. Cyr, [18];
- Augereau, Jean, general, brother of above, unskilful operations of, [295], [297].
- Avila, Ney’s high-handed doings at, [202], [505].