| Total. | ||||
| Present under arms. | On command. | Present. | On command. | |
| British Cavalry | 7,791 | 851 | ||
| Portuguese do. | 1,452 | 225 | ||
| Total cavalry | 9,243 | 1,076 | ||
| British infantry | 33,658 | 1,771 | ||
| Portuguese do. | 23,905 | 1,038 | ||
| Total infantry | 57,563 | 2,809 | ||
| Sabres and bayonets | 66,806 | 3,885 | ||
| Deduct the 6th division left at Medina de Pomar | 6,320 | |||
| Sabres and bayonets | 60,486 | |||
| Spanish Auxiliaries. | ||||
| { Morillo’s division | about 3,000 | |||
| Infantry | { Giron’s do. | do. 12,000 | ||
| { Carlos d’Espagna’s do. | do. 3,000 | |||
| { Longa’s do. | do. 3,300 | |||
| Cavalry | Penne Villemur | do. 1,000 | ||
| Julian Sanchez | do. 1,000 | |||
| 23,000 | ||||
| Grand Total | 83,486 | |||
No. of Anglo-Portuguese guns at the battle of Vittoria.
Colonel A. Dickson commanding.
| British horse artillery | 9 lbs. | 45 | |
| Do. | do. | 6 lbs. | 30 |
| Do. | do. | 5½ inch howitzers | 15 |
| Total | 90 | ||
| No Spanish guns set down in the return. Number unknown. | |||
END OF VOL. V.
MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-COURT, FENCHURCH-STREET.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] In a recent number of the “Quarterly Review,” the writer of an article upon the correspondence of Louis the XVIII. quotes me as saying that Massena had one hundred and thirty-five thousand men under his orders, as if he had invaded Portugal with an army of that amount, whereas I have expressly said that he invaded Portugal with sixty-five thousand, the rest being extended as far as Biscay. The assertion of the Reviewer is therefore essentially false with the appearance of truth. The same writer, while rebuking the Editor of the Correspondence for ignorance, asserts, that the battle of Busaco was fought between the 9th of October and the 5th of November! It was fought on the 27th of September.
Another writer in the same No. treating of Professor Drumann’s work, speaks of “following an impulse which is from behind,” a figure of speech which must appear singularly felicitous to those who have watched a puppy dog chasing his own tail; but your Quarterly Reviewers are your only men for accuracy of fact and expression!
[2] These numbers are somewhat below those I have assigned to the French army; my calculation was made from the imperial muster-rolls, but the difference may be easily accounted for by the length of time which elapsed when marshal Jourdan wrote this letter. His numbers are evidently from memory, and probably he did not mean to include the king’s guards and Spaniards.