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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 6, September 1, 1812-August 5, 1813

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A detailed narrative of the 1812–1813 Peninsular campaigns covering the siege of Burgos, the retreat that followed, the campaign culminating at Vittoria and the subsequent Pyrenean battles. The author combines operational narrative with topographical description, orders of battle and brigade strengths, and contemporary dispatches, diaries and archival documents, supported by maps and illustrations. Strategic, logistical and leadership decisions are assessed alongside source commentary and occasional acknowledgment of limits where personal reconnaissance was unavailable.

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SIR JOHN MURRAY’S ARMY
ON THE TARRAGONA EXPEDITION: JUNE 1813

Advanced Guard Brigade. Colonel Adam:

2/27th, Calabrese Free Corps, 1st Anglo-Italian Levy, one company Rifles of De Roll.

1st Division. General William Clinton. Brigadiers Honstedt and Haviland-Smith:

1/58th, 2/67th, 4th Line Battalion K.G.L., Sicilian ‘Estero’ regiment (2 batts.).

2nd Division. General John Mackenzie. Brigadiers Warren and Prevost:

1/10th, 1/27th, 1/81st, De Roll-Dillon, 2nd Italian Levy.

Whittingham’s Spanish Infantry:

Guadalajara, Cordova, 2nd of Murcia, Mallorca, 5th Grenadiers.

Cavalry:

Two squadrons 20th Light Dragoons, two squadrons Brunswick Hussars, one troop Foreign Hussars.

Artillery:

Two British and one Portuguese Field Batteries; one company British and one Portuguese attached to Battering Train.

STATISTICS OF ABOVE. JUNE 4, 1813

[No regimental totals available.]

  Officers. Men.  
Infantry:
British, German Legion, De Roll-Dillon, 1st and 2nd batts. Anglo-Italian Levy, Calabrese Free Corps 345 8,040  
Sicilian Estero Regiment 67 1,041  
Whittingham’s Spanish Infantry 228 4,624  
Cavalry 37 764 [726 horses]
Artillery 53 767  
Engineers and Staff Corps 9 77  
Total 739 15,313