SPANISH TROOPS ON THE EAST COAST OF SPAIN
IN THE SPRING OF 1812
(A) REMAINS OF THE 2nd (VALENCIAN) AND 3rd (MURCIAN)
ARMIES,
MARCH 1
| Officers. | Men. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Division: Conde de Montijo, 1st of Badajoz (2 batts.), Cuenca (2 batts.), 2 squadrons cavalry | 110 | 2,049 |
| 2nd Division: General Luis Riquelme, 2nd Walloon Guards, Guadalajara (3 batts.), 1st of Burgos (3 batts.), Guadix (2 batts.), Baden (1 batt.), Alpujarras (1 batt.), dismounted cavalry (1 batt.) | 335 | 5,214 |
| Reserve Division: General Philip Roche. Voluntarios de Aragon, Canarias, Alicante, 2nd of Murcia, Alcazar de San Juan, Chinchilla (1 batt. each), 2 squadrons of Husares de Fernando 7º | 300 | 5,576 |
| Cavalry: General A. Rich. Principe (2 squadrons), España (2 squadrons), Reina (2 squadrons), Carabineros Reales, Farnesio, Montesa, Dragones del Rey, Cazadores de Valencia, Pavia, Rey, Granaderos a caballo, Husares de Castilla (one squadron each), three provisional squadrons | 321 | 1,565 |
| Cadres of dispersed battalions, now reorganizing: Lorca, Velez Malaga, Almanza, America | 98 | 1,079 |
| Artillery (Field) | 38 | 651 |
| Artillery (Garrison) in Alicante and Cartagena | 17 | 582 |
| Engineers | 8 | 202 |
| Total | 1,227 | 16,918 |
(B) JOSEPH O’DONNELL’S ARMY, JULY 21, 1812, AND ITS LOSSES AT CASTALLA
[The figures of the former from Los Ejércitos españoles. The list of prisoners from Suchet’s dispatch in the Paris Archives de la Guerre.]
| Strength. | Unwounded prisoners reported by Suchet. |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | |||||
| Michelena’s Brigade |
Corona (1 Batt.) | 24 | 630 | 2,035 | 255 | ||
| Velez Malaga (1 batt.) | 36 | 834 | — | ||||
| Guadix | 24 | 487 | 337 | ||||
| Montijo’s Brigade |
2nd Walloon Guards (1 batt.) | 20 | 569 | 2,152 | 350 | ||
| Cuenca (2 batts.) | 33 | 890 | 112 | ||||
| 1st of Badajoz (1 batt.) | 27 | 613 | — | ||||
| Mijares’s Brigade |
Bailen (1 batt.) | 32 | 708 | 2,187 | 405 | ||
| Alcazar de San Juan (1 batt.) | 31 | 855 | 434 | ||||
| Lorca (1 batt.) | 25 | 536 | 242 | ||||
| Cavalry (Provisional Regiment, 2 squadrons) | 29 | 207 | — | ||||
| Engineers | 26 | 325 | — | ||||
| Roche’s Division: | |||||||
| 1st of Burgos (2 batts.) | 27 | 786 | — | ||||
| Canarias (1 batt.) | 34 | 818 | — | ||||
| Alicante (2 batts.) | 35 | 1,110 | — | ||||
| Chinchilla (2 batts.) | 26 | 918 | — | ||||
| Total | 429 | 10,286 | 2,135 | ||||
Suchet also reports 697 wounded prisoners, of whom 56 died of their wounds.
No figures are given for the detached cavalry division of Santesteban, which was not in action at Castalla.