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

Chapter 57: XVII
By Charles Oman
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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.

XVII

BRITISH LOSSES AT MAYA:
JULY 25, 1813

  Killed. Wounded. Missing.  
  Off. Men. Off. Men. Off. Men. Total.
2nd Division Staff — — 2 — — — 2
Cameron’s Brigade:
1/50th Foot 3 21 10 158 2 55 249
1/71st Foot 2 16 4 120 1 53 196
1/92nd Foot — 34 19 268 — 22 343
Pringle’s Brigade:
1/28th Foot 1 8 6 112 1 31 159
2/34th Foot 1 21 4 54 6 82 168
1/39th Foot 2 10 7 111 2 54 186
Two companies 5/60th, attached to above brigades 2 5 — 11 1 25 44
7th Division troops:
1/6th — 2 2 17 — — 21
1/82nd — 8 4 67 — — 79
Brunswick-Oels — 8 3 15 — 15 41
Total of the three brigades 11 133 61 933 13 337 1,488

BRITISH LOSSES AT RONCESVALLES

N.B.—Only those of Ross’s and Campbell’s brigades are available in detail, those of Byng’s brigade are nowhere found, but are known to have been slight—under 100 in all. It is most curious that not one officer-casualty appears to have occurred either in the 1/3rd or in the 1st Provisional Battalion, Byng’s only units engaged at Roncesvalles.

    Killed. Wounded. Missing.  
    Off. Men. Off. Men. Off. Men. Total.
Ross’s Brigade:
1/7th Foot   1 6 — 24 — — 31
20th Foot   1 14 8 105 — 11 139
1/23rd Foot   — 6 4 32 — — 42
1 company Brunswick-Oels   — 2 — 2 — — 4
Portuguese Brigade (A. Campbell):
11th Line   — 3 — 20 — 6 29
23rd Line
7th Caçadores