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WELLINGTON’S ARMY ON THE BEIRA FRONTIER

[FROM THE RETURN OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1811.]

BRITISH CAVALRY (Stapleton Cotton)

Slade’s Brigade   1st Royal Dragoons 406
112th Light Dragoons 372
Alten’s Brigade   11th Light Dragoons 377
1st Hussars K.G.L. 413
Anson’s Brigade   14th Light Dragoons 344
16th Light Dragoons 373
De Grey’s Brigade[797]   3rd Dragoon Guards 369
4th Dragoons 358
Total British Cavalry, 161 officers, 2,851 men = 3,012.

BRITISH INFANTRY

1st Division. Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Graham.
H. Campbell’s Brigade   1st Coldstream Guards 877
1st Scots Fusilier Guards 886
1 comp. 5/60th Foot 48
Stopford’s Brigade   2/24th Foot 300
1/26th Foot 538
2/42nd Foot 368
1/79th Foot 374
1 comp. 5/60th Foot 38
Löwe’s Brigade   1st Line battalion K.G.L 533
2nd ditto 502
5th ditto 462
Total 1st Division = 4,926.
3rd Division. Major-General T. Picton.
Wallace’s (vice
Mackinnon) Brigade		   1/45th Foot 444
74th Foot 519
1/88th Foot 935
3 companies 5/60th Foot 243
Colville’s Brigade   2/5th Foot 462
77th Foot 560
2/83rd Foot 401
94th Foot 424
Total 3rd Division, 207 officers, 3,781 men = 3,988.
4th Division. Major-General Lowry Cole.
Kemmis’s Brigade   3/27th Foot 770
1/40th Foot 877
97th Foot 279
1 comp. 5/60th Foot 37
Pakenham’s Brigade   1/7th Fusiliers 552
1/23rd R.W. Fusiliers 554
1/48th Foot 383
1 comp. Brunswick Oels 49
Total 4th Division, 155 officers, 3,346 men = 3,501.
5th Division. Brigadier-General Dunlop (for Leith).
Hay’s Brigade   3/1st Foot 682
1/9th Foot 626
2/38th Foot 263
1 comp. Brunswick Oels 63
Dunlop’s Brigade   1/4th Foot 525
2/30th Foot 388
2/44th Foot 392
1 comp. Brunswick Oels 52
Total 5th Division, 162 officers, 2,829 men = 2,991.
6th Division. Major-General A. Campbell.
Hulse’s Brigade   1/11th Foot 740
2/53rd Foot 417
1/61st Foot 624
1 comp. 5/60th Foot 40
Burne’s Brigade   2nd Foot 543
1/32nd Foot 794
1/36th Foot 460
Total 6th Division, 181 officers, 3,437 men = 3,618.
7th Division. Major-General Sontag.
V. Alten’s Brigade   1st Light Batt. K.G.L. 602
2nd Light Batt. K.G.L. 516
Brunswick Oels (9 comps.) 536
Sontag’s Brigade   51st Foot 309
68th Foot 479
85th Foot (5 comps.) 166
Chasseurs Britanniques 671
Total 7th Division, 161 officers, 3,118 men = 3,279.
Light Division. Major-General R. Craufurd.
Barnard’s Brigade   1/43rd Foot 1,005
4 comps. 1/95th 317
1 comp. 2/95th 86
detachment 3/95th 297
2nd Brigade   1/52nd Foot 771
2/52nd Foot 432
4 companies 1/95th 339
Total Light Division, 148 officers, 3,099 men = 3,247.
Light Division. Major-General R. Craufurd.
ARTILLERY[798]
British: Bull’s, Ross’s, and Macdonald’s Troops R.H.A., Lawson’s and Bredin’s companies R.A. (including drivers) 464
German: Sympher’s company K.G.L. 77
ENGINEERS[798] 143
WAGGON TRAIN[798] 136

TOTAL BRITISH ARMY

Cavalry 3,012
1st Division 4,920
3rd Division 3,988
4th Division 3,501
5th Division 2,991
6th Division 3,018
7th Division 3,279
Light Division 3,247
Artillery 541
Engineers 143
Waggon Train 136
Total 29,382

PORTUGUESE (officers and men together)

3rd Division: Palmeirim’s Brigade (9th and 21st Line) 1,289
4th Division: Collins’s Brigade (11th and 23rd Line, 7th Caçadores) 2,982
5th Division: Spry’s Brigade (3rd and 15th Line, 8th Caçadores) 2,014
6th Division: Madden’s Brigade (8th and 12th Line) 2,069
7th Division: Coleman’s Brigade (7th and 19th Line, 2nd Caçadores) 1,823
Light Division: 1st and 3rd Caçadores 953
Pack’s Independent Brigade (1st and 16th Line, 4th Caçadores) 2,206
McMahon’s Independent Brigade (13th and 22nd Line, 5th Caçadores) 2,489
Madden’s Cavalry (1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th regiments) 1,014
Artillery, 5 batteries 1,014
Total 17,349

Total Allied Army = 46,731.