SOULT’S ARMY AT ALBUERA, AND ITS LOSSES
[The strength from a return of May 1st, filed under June 1st, in the Archives Nationales. The losses from a return in the Archives de la Guerre, dated July 19th.]
| Present. | Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | Total Loss. |
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| Offs. | Men. | Offs. | Men. | Offs. | Men. | Offs. | Men. | ||
| INFANTRY[791] | |||||||||
| 5th Corps. | |||||||||
| 1st Division (Girard): | |||||||||
| 34th Line (2nd and 3rd batts.) | 23 | 930 | 4 | 104[792] | 13 | 298 | — | — | 419 |
| 40th Line (1st and 2nd batts.) | 35 | 778 | 4 | 35 | 9 | 226 | 1 | 73 | 348 |
| 64th Line (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 50 | 1,539 | 5 | 99 | 18 | 361 | — | 168 | 651 |
| 88th Line (2nd and 3rd batts.) | 21 | 878 | — | — | 5 | 253 | 6 | 141[793] | 405 |
| 2nd Division (Gazan): | |||||||||
| 21st Léger (2nd and 3rd batts.) | 43 | 745 | 3 | 61 | 11 | 154 | 2 | 24 | 255 |
| 100th Line (1st and 2nd batts.) | 33 | 705 | 4 | 50 | 8 | 152 | 2 | 51 | 267 |
| 28th Léger (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 62 | 1,305 | 7 | 53 | 10 | 313 | 1 | 112 | 496 |
| 103rd Line (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 38 | 1,252 | 4 | 48 | 10 | 148 | 3 | 74 | 287 |
| Total 5th Corps | 305 | 8,132 | 31 | 450 | 84 | 1,905 | 15 | 643 | 3,128 |
| Werlé’s Brigade: | |||||||||
| 12th Léger (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 62 | 2,102 | 3 | 108 | 14 | 511 | 1 | 132 | 769 |
| 58th Line (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 58 | 1,757 | 4 | 68 | 235 | 511 | — | 38 | 351 |
| 58th Line (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 55 | 1,587 | 6 | 23 | 15 | 258 | 2 | 24 | 328 |
| Brigade Total | 175 | 5,446 | 13 | 199 | 35 | 1,004 | 3 | 194 | 1,448 |
| Godinot’s Brigade: | |||||||||
| 16th Léger (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 49 | 1,624 | — | 39 | 7 | 321 | — | 12 | 381 |
| 51st Line (1st, 2nd, and 3rd batts.) | 65 | 2,186 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 |
| Brigade Total | 114 | 3,810 | 2 | 41 | 7 | 322 | — | 12 | 384 |
| Grenadiers Réunis of 45th, 63rd, 95th Line, of 1st Corps, and 4th Poles of 4th Corps (11 comps.)[794] | 33 | 1,000 | Only gross total of losses given. (10 officers and 362 men) |
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| Total Infantry | 627 | 18,388 | 46 | 690 | 126 | 3,230 | 18 | 849 | 5,332 |
| Cavalry (Latour-Maubourg). | |||||||||
| Briche’s Brigade: | |||||||||
| 2nd Hussars | 23 | 282 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 57 | — | 8 | 73 |
| 10th Hussars | 24 | 238 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 21 | — | 3 | 32 |
| 21st Chasseurs | 21 | 235 | — | 3 | 3 | 19 | — | — | 25 |
| Bron’s Brigade: | |||||||||
| 4th Dragoons | 21 | 385 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 38 | — | 1 | 70 |
| 20th Dragoons | 22 | 244 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
| 26th Dragoons | 27 | 394 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 12 | — | 1 | 21 |
| Bouvier des Éclats’s Brigade: | |||||||||
| 14th Dragoons | 17 | 299 | — | 6 | 1 | 17 | — | — | 24 |
| 17th Dragoons | 17 | 297 | — | 12 | 3 | 29 | — | 1 | 45 |
| 27th Dragoons | 14 | 235 | — | 2 | 3 | 11 | — | 3 | 19 |
| Unattached Cavalry: | |||||||||
| 1st Lancers of the Vistula | 28 | 563 | 1 | 41 | 9 | 78 | 1 | — | 130 |
| 27th Chasseurs | 22 | 409 | — | 7 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 26 |
| 4th Spanish Chasseurs | 14 | 181 | — | 2 | — | 4 | — | — | 6 |
| Cavalry Total | 250 | 3,762 | 8 | 118 | 34 | 307 | 3 | 26 | 496 |
| Artillery Génie Train: | |||||||||
| Of 5th Corps | 18 | 590 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 72 | — | — | 95 |
| Of other Units | 25 | 600 | No returns whatever. | ? | |||||
| État-Major | ? | ? | 5 | — | 8 | — | — | — | 13 |
| Total of Army | 920 | 23,340 | 60 | 827 | 171 | 3,610 | 21 | 875 | 5,936 |
| Return of casualties is signed Mocquery, 19 Juillet 1811. | |||||||||
| Total present, | 24,260. | Total losses, | 5,936. |
N.B.—The losses cannot be quite complete. Not only is the return for artillery and engineers, &c., for all units except the 5th Corps missing, but Martinien’s lists, which are absolutely secure evidence, since they give the name and regiment of every officer hit, show much larger totals than this report, 362 casualties instead of 241. This enormous difference of 121 casualties among officers, reported in the regimental lists, but ignored by Soult, cannot be explained away by adding the 21 prisoners to his total of 241, granting that all the prisoners were wounded. This still leaves a balance of 100 unaccounted for. The details of difference and of total casualties are:—
| Soult. | Martinien. | |
| Staff | 13 | 27 |
| 34th | 17 | 15 |
| 40th | 14 | 23 |
| 64th | 23 | 26 |
| 88th | 11 | 12 |
| 21st Léger | 16 | 13 |
| 100th | 14 | 20 |
| 28th Léger | 18 | 30 |
| 103rd Ligne | 17 | 18 |
| 12th Léger | 18 | 29 |
| 55th | 10 | 14 |
| 58th | 23 | 24 |
| 16th Léger | 9 | 17 |
| Grenadiers | 10 | 13 |
| 2nd Hussars | 4 | 5 |
| 10th Hussars | 5 | 7 |
| 21st Chasseurs | 3 | 5 |
| 4th Dragoons | 4 | 11 |
| 20th Dragoons | 5 | 12 |
| 26th Dragoons | 3 | 3 |
| 14th Dragoons | 1 | 1 |
| 17th Dragoons | 3 | 6 |
| 27th Dragoons | 3 | 5 |
| 1st Lancers | 11 | 14 |
| 27th Chasseurs | 3 | 3 |
| 4th Spanish Chasseurs | — | 3 |
| Artillery Génie Train | 4 | 6 |
| 262 | 362 |
See notes in text above, p. 395.