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THE FRENCH AND SPANISH FORCES AT THE SIEGE OF TARRAGONA
I. SUCHET’S ARMY
N.B.—The divisional and brigade organization is provisional; compare for theoretical organization, p. 640.
| Frère’s Division: 1st Léger (3 batts.), 1st of the Vistula (2 batts.), 14th Ligne (1 batt.), 42nd Ligne (3 batts.) | 4,821 | present |
| Harispe’s Division: 7th and 16th Ligne (3 batts. each), Italian 2nd Léger and 4th, 5th, 6th Ligne (2 batts. each) | 6,561 | ” |
| Habert’s Division: 5th Léger, 116th and 117th Ligne (2 batts. each) | 3,088 | ” |
| Abbé’s Brigade (arrived in June): 114th, 115th, 121st Ligne (2 batts. each) | 3,657 | ” |
| Total Infantry | 18,127 | |
| Boussard’s Cavalry: 24th Dragoons, 13th Cuirassiers (3 squadrons each), 4th Hussars, Italian Dragons de Napoléon (2 squadrons each) | 1,447 | ” |
| Artillery and Artillery Train | 1,352 | ” |
| Engineers and Train | 708 | ” |
| General Total | 21,634 |
II. THE SPANISH GARRISON
There are unfortunately no figures forthcoming at Madrid for the Army of Catalonia between December 10th, 1810, and August 1811, all apparently having been lost or destroyed at the siege of Tarragona. In December the Army of Catalonia had consisted of—Sarsfield’s Division, 5,462 men present; Courten’s, 4,791 men present; Eroles’s, 2,538 men present; garrisons (Tortosa, Tarragona, Seu d’Urgel, &c.), 13,040 = Total 25,651.
Of these there seem to have been present in Tarragona, in May and June, the whole of Courten’s division, presumably still somewhat under 5,000 men (regiments of America, Granada, Almanza, and Almeria, 9 batts.), a sedentary garrison composed of 6 battalions of the new Catalan ‘sections’ or local line and a few other troops, and the greater part of Sarsfield’s division, sent in by Campoverde on June 10th, with some small succours sent from Valencia and elsewhere. The whole must have made up some 15,000 men, though such a number was not present at any one time within the walls. According to Suchet’s surrender-roll of the garrison (see Belmas, iii. 601) there were still 8,000 men surviving at the moment of the storm, June 28th, 1811, viz.:—
| Courten’s Division: | |
| America | 351 |
| Almanza | 613 |
| Almeria | 464 |
| Granada | 365 |
| 1,793 | |
| Sedentary Garrison: | |
| Catalan ‘Sections’ | 1,936 |
| Tarragona | 125 |
| Artillery | 793 |
| Sappers and Engineers | 166 |
| 3,020 | |
| Other Troops (mainly from Sarsfield’s Division): |
|
| Santa Fé | 343 |
| 2nd of Savoia | 655 |
| Iliberia | 368 |
| Saragossa | 280 |
| Gerona | 241 |
| 1st of Savoia | 502 |
| Cazadores de Valencia | 664 |
| Grenadiers | 164 |
| Miscellaneous detachments and isolated officers |
70 |
| Cavalry | 166 |
| 3,453 | |
| General Total | 8,266 |