VIII
FRENCH LOSSES AT SABUGAL, APRIL 3rd, 1811
[FROM A RETURN IN THE MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE, PARIS]
| Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | |||||
| Offs. | Men. | Offs. | Men. | Offs. | Men. | Total. | |
| 2nd Corps. Merle’s Division: | |||||||
| 2nd Léger | 2 | 7 | 4 | 60 | 3 | 15 | 91 |
| 36th Ligne | 1 | 8 | 5 | 63 | 1 | 18 | 96 |
| 4th Léger | 1 | 1 | 5 | 57 | 1 | 19 | 84 |
| Heudelet’s Division: | |||||||
| 17th Léger | 3 | 13 | 12 | 118 | — | 31 | 177 |
| 70th Ligne | 6 | 9 | 11 | 122 | — | 96 | 244 |
| 31st Léger | 2 | 2 | — | 6 | — | — | 10 |
| 47th Ligne | — | 1 | — | 6 | — | 1 | 8 |
| Cavalry (Pierre Soult): | |||||||
| 1st Hussars | — | 7 | — | 4 | 1 | — | 12 |
| 8th Dragoons | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| 25th Dragoons | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 3 |
| 22nd Chasseurs | 1 | 4 | — | 11 | — | — | 16 |
| Chasseurs Hanovriens | — | 2 | — | 6 | — | — | 8 |
| Artillery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | — | — | 10 |
| 17 | 55 | 38 | 464 | 6 | 180 | 760 | |
N.B.—The disproportionate number of wounded to killed among rank and file, 464 to 55, or one to eight, while the normal proportion was about one to five, suggests that some of the numerous ‘missing’ were really killed. Note the excessive loss among officers, 61 to 699 rank and file, one to eleven instead of the usual one to twenty.
There is some reason to suppose that the figures are incomplete, as Martinien’s Liste des officiers tués et blessés gives 19 killed and 46 wounded by name. We find in these tables the 1st Hussars with an officer killed and three wounded, and the 70th Ligne with seven killed and thirteen wounded, &c.