[98] Colborne, in a letter dated December 5, says ‘we had 46,100 infantry and nearly 6,000 cavalry drawn out, in a very bad position.’ He was present all through the campaign, but wrote no full report.
[99] Viz.
| Mortier’s Infantry Divisions (Girard and Gazan), twenty-two batts. [one regiment deducted] | about | 12,000 | men |
| Sebastiani’s Polish Division and German Division (under Werlé and Leval) | about | 8,000 | men |
| Rey’s Brigade of Dessolles’ Division of the Central Reserve | about | 3,500 | men |
| The King’s Reserves, viz. four guard battalions and three others | about | 3,500 | men |
| Milhaud’s Dragoons, five regiments | about | 1,800 | men |
| Paris’s Light Cavalry, attached to 4th Corps, three regiments | about | 1,000 | men |
| Beauregard’s Cavalry of the 5th Corps, four regiments | about | 1,500 | men |
| The King’s Cavalry, one regiment of the Guards, one of Chasseurs | about | 700 | men |
| Artillery, Sappers, &c. | about | 1,500 | men |
| Total | about | 33,500 | men |
[100] Joseph declared that he urged instant attack when Soult advised waiting for Victor. See his letter in vol. vii of Ducasse’s Life and Correspondence of Joseph Napoleon.
[101] This order seems the only one consistent with the sole sentence in Areizaga’s dispatch to the Junta in which he explains his battle-array: ‘Inmediatamente formé por mi mismo la primera linea en direccion de Ocaña, colocando por la izquierda la division de Vigodet, defendida por la frente de la gran zanja, y por su derecha las divisiones de Giron, Castejon y Lacy: la de Copons formaba martillo, junta á las tapias de la villa, inmediata á la de Giron, y las demás la secunda linea á distancia competente para proteger á la primera.’ The unnamed divisions which must have lain beyond Copons in the right of the second line are Jacomé and Zerain.
[102] The only detailed accounts of the Spanish movements that I have discovered are the divisional reports of Lacy and Zayas, both in the Foreign Office archives at the Record Office. Areizaga’s dispatch is so vague as to be nearly useless.
[103] Viz. Zayas, Vigodet, and Castejon, about 4,000 men each, Copons 3,000, Giron 2,500, remains of the other three divisions about 3,500. From the returns in the Madrid War Office.
[104] Martinien’s lists of officers killed and wounded show that the German division lost 19 officers, the Polish division 23, Girard’s division 28—in all 70 out of the total of 94 officers hit in the whole army.
[105] Martinien’s lists show 4 officers killed and 14 wounded.
[106] There is a long report by Del Parque in the Record Office, in which he states that the panic was caused by a stray party of his own routed cavalry dashing in among the rearguard in the dark, and crying that the French were pursuing them. He afterwards court-martialled and shot some cavalrymen for cowardice.