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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809

Chapter 51: IX
By Charles Oman
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The volume provides a detailed military account of the Peninsular campaigns of 1809, portraying the conflict as fragmented into several simultaneous regional operations and treating each campaign separately. It gives particular attention to the Talavera campaign and to Anglo-Portuguese actions, including a close study of a daring Douro crossing and an analysis of the reorganization of the Portuguese army. The narrative combines battlefield visits, contemporary French, Spanish and British documents, maps, illustrations and appendices to clarify troop movements, strengths and losses.

IX

A

SUCHET’S ARMY OF ARAGON [3rd CORPS],
MAY 15, 1809.

Total présents sous les armes.

1st Division, General Laval:  
14th Line (two batts.), 1,080; 44th Line (two batts.), 1,069; 2nd of the Vistula (two batts.), 880; 3rd ditto, 964 3,993
2nd Division, General Musnier:  
114th Line (three batts.), 1,627; 115th Line (three batts.), 1,732; 1st of the Vistula (two batts.), 1,039 4,398
3rd Division, General Morlot:  
116th and 117th Line (each three batts.), absent in Castile; 121st Line, three batts. absent in Navarre, one present in Aragon, 400; 5th Léger (one batt.), 490 890
Troops detached from 5th Corps:  
64th Line (one batt.), one voltigeur company of 40th Line 450
Cavalry Brigade, General Wathier:  
4th Hussars, 326; 13th Cuirassiers, 390; Polish Lancers (one squadron), 80 796
Artillery 450
General Total 10,977

N.B.—Of the nine absent battalions the 116th and 117th with a strength of somewhat over 3,000 men rejoined Suchet on the day of Maria (June 15), thus raising this available force to about 13,000 men. The 121st never came up from Navarre.

B

BLAKE’S ARMY OF ARAGON,
JUNE 15, 1809.

Total present under arms at Maria.

Vanguard Brigade, Colonel J. Creagh:  
Almeria (two batts.), Cazadores de Valencia (one batt.) 2,298
1st Division, Major-General P. Roca:  
1st of Savoia (three batts.), Granada (one batt.), Avila Militia, Tiradores de Cariñena (one batt.), Tercio of Tortosa 4,888
2nd Division, Lieut.-General Marquis of Lazan:  
1st Volunteers of Saragossa (one batt.), 3rd Cazadores de Valencia (one batt.), 1st of Valencia (three batts.), America (two batts.) 5,837
Cavalry Brigade, Colonel J. O’Donnell:  
Olivenza (four squadrons), Santiago (one squadron) 698
Artillery (seventeen guns) 200
Sappers (three companies) 309
Total present 14,230
3rd Division, Lieut.-General C. Areizaga (absent at Botorrita):  
Fernando 7th (one batt.), Grenadiers (four companies), 1st Volunteers of Aragon (one batt.), 2nd ditto (one batt.), Volunteers of Valencia (one batt.), Cazadores de Palafox (one batt.), Daroca (one batt.), Tiradores de Doyle (one batt.), Tiradores de Murcia (one batt.) 5,842
Cavalry: Husares Españoles, Santiago (one squadron each) 368
Artillery (eight guns) 120
Sappers 103
Total absent at Botorrita 6,433