The 1st Battalion 28th, and 2nd Battalions of the 34th and 39th Regiments.
4th, or Portuguese Brigade.—Colonel Ashworth.
The 6th and 18th Regiments of the Line, and 6th Cacadores.
General Hamilton's Division of Portuguese Infantry.
1st Brigade.—Brigadier-General Campbell.
The 2nd and 14th Regiments of the Line.
2nd Brigade.—Brigadier-General De Costa.
The 4th and 10th Regiments of the Line.
CHAPTER IV.
General Murillo having advanced from the frontiers of Portugal, towards Caceres in Spanish Estremadura, for the double purpose of procuring recruits, and supplies for the 5th Spanish army under his command;—the Count D'Erlon, on the first intelligence of these movements reaching him, instantly detached General Gerard with a division of the 5th French corps, and a considerable body of cavalry, from Merida, to arrest his progress. The belligerents came in sight of each other a short distance from Caceres, but no serious collision took place, for Morillo's force being far inferior to Gerard's, both in point of numbers and discipline, the former conceived it prudent to withdraw his troops towards Malpartida, and subsequently to Arroyo-del-Puerco and Aleseda.