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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811

Chapter 37: IV
By Charles Oman
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The volume chronicles the military campaigns of 1811 across the Iberian Peninsula, centering on the stalemate between Wellington and French commanders Masséna, Soult, and Marmont. It traces Masséna's retreat from Portugal, key battles and sieges such as Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Almeida, Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo, and surveys Eastern operations under Suchet and Catalan actions. The narrative combines operational analysis, topographical study of battlefields, and extensive use of contemporary diaries, correspondence, and intercepted dispatches to assess shifting strategic initiative and the decline of French offensive capability in the west.

IV

GRAHAM’S ARMY AT BARROSA, AND ITS LOSSES

      Killed. Wounded.  
  Officers. Men. O. M. O. M. Total.
Dilkes’s Brigade:
1st Guards, 2nd batt. 24 587 1 33 8 177 219
Coldstream Guards, 2nd Batt. (2 comps.) 7 204 1 8 2 47 58
3rd Guards, 2nd Batt. (3 comps.) 8 314 1 14 2 85 102
2 comps. 2/95th Rifles 11 206 — 6 — 28 34
Total of Brigade 50 1,311 3 61 12 337 413
Wheatley’s Brigade:
1/28th Foot (8 comps.) 20 437 — 6 — 80 86
2/67th Foot 23 504 — 10 4 31 45
2/87th Foot 32 664 1 44 4 124 173
Total of Brigade 75 1,605 1 60 8 235 304
Browne’s Flank Battalion (2 comps, each of 1/9th, 1/28th, 2/82nd) 22 514 — 25 11 200 236
Barnard’s Flank Battalion (4 comps. 3/95th Rifles, 2 comps. 2/47th) 29 615 2 33 5 97 137
Flank Companies, 20th Portuguese 10 316 — 9 5 42 56
Cavalry, 2 squadrons 2nd Hussars K.G.L. 13 193 — — 2 32 34
Artillery 20 342 — 6 8 40 54
Royal Engineers 9 50 — 1 — 2 3
Staff Corps 2 35 — — — 1 1
Total of Army 236 4,981 6 195 51 986 1,238

Total of force was: Infantry, 4,533; Cavalry, 206; Artillery, 362; Engineers, &c., 96 = Grand Total, 5,217.

N.B.—Of these troops on the field, Dilkes’s brigade minus the 211 Coldstreamers, but plus 260 of the 2/67th and Browne’s flank battalion, formed the right column, while Wheatley’s brigade, minus one wing of the 2/67th, but plus the two Coldstream companies and Barnard’s flank battalion, was on the left. All the guns were with the latter column. Thus Dilkes’s command must have been about 1,950 strong, Wheatley’s about 2,883. The cavalry were absent with Whittingham on the coast-road till nearly the end of the engagement.