[416] In his own narrative he says that he sent in the 1st and 3rd Léger, 14th, 114th, and 121st Line—a big deployment of forces.
[417] The best account of the combat of Biar is that of the anonymous officer of the 2/27th, quoted at length by Trimble in his History of the Inniskilling Regiment, pp. 61-2. See also the less trustworthy Landsheit (of the ‘Foreign Hussars’), ii. pp. 86-9.
[418] De Roll-Dillon, 81st, and one of Whittingham’s Spanish battalions. They had some casualties—the Spaniards 29, De Roll-Dillon probably 25: its total casualty list for the days April 12-13 of 34 cannot be divided between the two actions.
[419] It is impossible to disentangle the losses of Adam’s brigade on April 12 and April 13, given together in Murray’s report. But on the second day the 2/27th regiment was the only unit seriously engaged. The total for both days was killed 1 officer and 56 men, wounded 10 officers and 231 men, missing 32 men: or a total of 330. If we deduct 40 for assumed losses of the 2/27th on the second day, and 30 more for casual losses of the other units on April 13—they were engaged but not seriously—and add 29 for losses in Whittingham’s battalion (he gives the figure himself) and 25 (including 9 missing) for those in De Roll-Dillon (which was barely under fire on the second day and lost 34 altogether), we must conclude that the total was very close to 300.
[420] The light company 7th K.G.L., two newly arrived squadrons of Brunswick Hussars, and two batteries.
[421] 2/27th, Calabrese Free Corps, 1st Italian Levy, two light companies K.G.L.
[422] 1/27th, 4th and 6th K.G.L., ‘Estero’ regiment (two battalions).
[423] 1/10th, 1/58th, 1/81st British, composite battalion of De Roll-Dillon, 2nd Italian Levy.
[424] Cordoba, Mallorca, Guadalajara, 2nd of Burgos, 2nd of Murcia, 5th Grenadiers.
[425] Chinchilla, Canarias, Alicante, Cazadores de Valencia, Voluntarios de Aragon.