SOULT’S ARMY IN HIS FIRST EXPEDITION OF ESTREMADURA (JAN.-MARCH 1811)

Officers
and Men.
5th Corps. Marshal Mortier:
2nd Infantry Division (Gazan):
21st and 28th Léger, 100th and 103rd Line (three batts. each)
5,835
2nd Infantry Division (Gazan):
21st and 28th Léger, 100th and 103rd Line (three batts. each)
5,775
Corps-Cavalry (Briche), 21st Chasseurs, 10th Hussars.971
From 1st Corps:
63rd Line (three batts.)1,450
4th, 14th, 26th Dragoons1,332
2nd Hussars405
From 4th Corps: 27th Chasseurs à Cheval990
Artillery and Train1,261
Engineers and Sappers698
4th Spanish Chasseurs à Cheval246
Gendarmerie25
État-Major-General22
General Total19,010

III

SPANISH TROOPS IN ESTREMADURA, MARCH, 1811

(A) ORIGINAL GARRISON OF THE PLACE

Officers.Men.
2nd of Majorca (two batts.)43466
1st of Badajoz (one batt.)20376
Provincial de Truxillo (one batt.)27694
Provincial de Plasencia (one batt.)20687
Dismounted Cavalry, organized in battalions29781
Artillery, and detachments lent to the artillery
by various corps
45979
Sappers6167
Total1904,150

(B) MENDIZABAL’S ARMY OF SUCCOUR

[Present with the Colours, Feb. 1, 1811]

Officers.Men.
Vanguard Division, Brigadier-General Carlos de España:
Principe (three batts.), 1st and 2nd of Catalonia, Gerona, Vittoria (one batt. each)1372,550
1st Division, Major-General Garcia:
Leon (three batts.), Regimiento del General (three batts.), La Union (two batts.), 1st of Barcelona, Voluntarios Catalanes, Osuna, Zafra, Valladolid, La Serena (one batt. each), 2nd of Seville (two batts.)3575,594
2nd Division, Major-General Virues:
Rey (two batts.), Princesa (two batts.), Lobera (three batts.), Toledo (two batts.), Zamora (two batts.), Hibernia (two batts.), Fernando 7º (two batts.), Tiradores de Castilla, Voluntarios de Navarra, 1st of Seville (one batt. each)2824,926
Cavalry, Major-General Butron:
Carabineros Reales, Reina, Infante, Borbon, Algarve, Sagunto, Lusitania, Hussares de Estremadura, Perseguidores de Andalusia, Imperiales de Toledo, Granaderos de Llerena, Cruzada de Albuquerque [many regiments very weak]3873,361
[with 2,595
horses]
Artillery, divisional, four batteries [not including men in Badajoz]19498
Total1,18216,929