[458] Marmont to Berthier, May 14, from Salamanca.
[459] Memorandum from Berthier of March 30.
[460] Which belonged to the 5th Corps, and joined it before Soult concentrated at Seville.
[461] Including Alten’s brigade, added later.
[462] The force under Beresford comprised (figures of March): British—2nd Division, 5,500; 4th Division, 4,200; Alten’s brigade, 1,100; Cavalry, 1,200; Artillery, &c., 500. Total, 12,500. Portuguese—Hamilton’s division, 5,000; Harvey’s brigade of the 4th Division, 2,900; Collins’s brigade (an extemporized unit of which more anon) 1,400; Otway’s and Madden’s cavalry, 1,000; Artillery, 250. Total, 10,550. The whole, therefore, was about 23,000 instead of the 16,000 on which Napoleon calculated. At Albuera there were absent from the above one British brigade (Kemmis of the 4th Division) and one Portuguese cavalry brigade (Madden), nearly 2,000 men in all. Yet Beresford put 20,000 Anglo-Portuguese in line.
[463] viz. 16th Léger (3 batts.), grenadiers réunis (1 batt.), 4th and 14th Dragoons. The 2nd Hussars and 26th Dragoons were already with Latour-Maubourg, never having returned to the 1st Corps since January. The grenadiers réunis were formed of the six grenadier companies of the 45th, 63rd, and 95th of the Line.
[464] viz. 58th Ligne (3 batts.), one battalion of grenadiers réunis (Poles), 1st Lancers of the Vistula, 20th Dragoons, and 27th Chasseurs.
[465] viz. 12th Léger, 51st and 55th Line (3 batts. each), 17th and 27th Dragoons.
[466] Godinot had the 16th Léger and 51st Line, Werlé the 55th, 58th Line, and 12th Léger. The two grenadier battalions made a general reserve of 1,000 men.
[467] N.B.—For further details as to the composition of Soult’s army see [Appendix XVI].