VIII

WELLINGTON’S ARMY IN THE VITTORIA CAMPAIGN

MARCHING STRENGTH, MAY 25, 1813[1065]

Cavalry
  Officers. Men.   Total.
R. Hill’s Brigade: 1st & 2nd Life Guards, Horse Guards 42 828   870
Ponsonby’s Brigade: 5th Dragoon Guards, 3rd & 4th Dragoons 61 1,177   1,238
G. Anson’s Brigade: 12th & 16th Light Dragoons 39 780   819
Long’s Brigade: 13th Light Dragoons 20 374   394
V. Alten’s Brigade: 14th Light Dragoons, 1st Hussars K.G.L. 49 956   1,005
Bock’s Brigade: 1st & 2nd Dragoons K.G.L. 38 594   632
Fane’s Brigade: 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1st Dragoons 42 800   842
Grant’s Brigade: 10th, 15th, 18th Hussars 63 1,561   1,624
D’Urban’s Portuguese Brigade: 1st, 11th, 12th Cavalry — 685   685
6th Portuguese Cavalry (Campbell) — 208   208
Cavalry Total 354 7,963   8,317
Infantry
  Officers. Men.   Total.
1st Division, General Howard:[1066]
Stopford’s Brigade: 1st Coldstream, 1st Scots Guards, one company 5/60th 56 1,672   4,854
Halkett’s Brigade: 1st, 2nd, 5th Line K.G.L., 1st & 2nd Light K.G.L. 133 2,993
2nd Division, Sir Rowland Hill:
Cadogan’s Brigade: 1/50th, 1/71st, 1/92nd, one company 5/60th 120 2,657   10,834
Byng’s Brigade: 1/3rd, 1/57th, 1st Prov. Batt.,[1067] one company 5/60th 131 2,334
O’Callaghan’s Brigade: 1/28th, 2/34th, 1/39th, one company 5/60th 122 2,408
Ashworth’s Portuguese: 6th & 18th Line, 6th Caçadores — 3,062
3rd Division, General Sir Thomas Picton:
Brisbane’s Brigade: 1/45th, 74th, 1/88th, three companies 5/60th 125 2,598   7,437
Colville’s Brigade: 1/5th, 2/83rd, 2/87th, 94th 120 2,156
Power’s Portuguese Brigade: 9th & 21st Line, 11th Caçadores — 2,460
4th Division, General Sir G. Lowry Cole:
W. Anson’s Brigade: 3/27th, 1/40th, 1/48th, 2nd Prov. Batt.,[1068] one company 5/60th 139 2,796   7,816
Skerrett’s Brigade: 1/7th, 20th, 1/23rd, one company Brunswick 123 1,926
Stubbs’s Portuguese Brigade: 11th & 23rd Line, 7th Caçadores — 2,842
5th Division, General Oswald [for General Leith]:
Hay’s Brigade: 3/1st, 1/9th, 1/38th, one company Brunswick 109 2,183   6,725
Robinson’s Brigade: 1/4th, 2/47th, 2/59th, one company Brunswick 100 1,961
Spry’s Portuguese Brigade: 3rd & 15th Line, 8th Caçadores — 2,372
6th Division, General Pakenham [for General Clinton]:
Stirling’s Brigade: 1/42nd, 1/79th, 1/91st, one company 5/60th 127 2,327   7,347
Hinde’s Brigade: 1/11th, 1/32nd, 1/36th, 1/61st 130 2,288
Madden’s Portuguese Brigade: 8th & 12th Line, 9th Caçadores — 2,475
7th Division, General Lord Dalhousie:
Barnes’s Brigade: 1/6th, 3rd Prov. Batt.[1069], nine companies Brunswick-Oels 116 2,206   7,287
Grant’s Brigade: 51st, 68th, 1/82nd, Chasseurs Britanniques 141 2,397
Lecor’s Portuguese Brigade: 7th & 19th Line, 2nd Caçadores — 2,437
Light Division, General Charles Alten:
Kempt’s Brigade: 1/43rd, 1st & 3rd/95th 98 1,979   5,484
Vandeleur’s Brigade: 1/52nd, 2/95th 63 1,399
Portuguese 17th Line, 1st & 3rd Caçadores — 1,945
Silveira’s Portuguese Division:
Da Costa’s Brigade: 2nd & 14th Line — 2,492   5,287
A. Campbell’s Brigade: 4th & 10th Line, 10th Caçadores — 2,795
Pack’s Portuguese Brigade: 1st & 16th Line, 4th Caçadores — 2,297   2,297
Bradford’s Portuguese Brigade: 13th & 24th Line, 5th Caçadores — 2,392   2,392
R.H.A. and Drivers 23 780    
Field Artillery, Train, Ammunition column, &c. 100 2,722    
K.G.L. Artillery 17 335    
Portuguese Artillery — 330    
Engineers and Sappers 41 302    
Staff Corps 21 126    
Wagon Train 37 165    
    British. Portuguese. Total.
Total Cavalry 7,424 893 8,317
” 1st Division 4,854 — 4,854
” 2nd Division 7,772 3,062 10,834
” 3rd Division 4,977 2,460 7,437
” 4th Division 4,974 2,842 7,816
” 5th Division 4,353 2,372 6,725
” 6th Division 4,872 2,475 7,347
” 7th Division 4,850 2,437 7,287
” Light Division 3,539 1,945 5,484
” Silveira’s Division — 5,287 5,287
” Pack’s and Bradford’s Brigades — 4,689 4,689
” Artillery and Train 3,977 330 4,307
” Engineers, Staff Corps, &c. 892 — 892
    52,484 28,792 81,276

This is, I believe, the first complete return of Wellington’s army in the Vittoria campaign ever published. My predecessors in Peninsular history sought in vain for the ‘morning states’ which should have accompanied Wellington’s dispatches to Lord Bathurst, and which are mentioned in those dispatches. In previous years, down to December 1812, they are generally found annexed to the covering letter, in the bound volumes at the Record Office. I should have fared no better than other seekers, but for the admirable knowledge of the contents of the Office possessed by Mr. Leonard Atkinson. He remembered that there existed some separate packages of ‘morning states’, which had been divorced from the rest of Wellington’s sendings, and not bound up with them. When sought, they turned out to be the missing figures of 1813, tied up unbound between two covers of cardboard. Mr. Atkinson’s happy discovery enables me to give the prefixed statistics, which permit us to know Wellington’s exact strength just as the campaign of Vittoria was starting.