A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 : $b From the treaty of Fontainbleau to the battle of CorunnaOman, Charles
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A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 : $b From the treaty of Fontainbleau to the battle of Corunna
Oman, Charles
Peninsular War, 1807-1814
(1) Division embarked at Cork:
20th Light Dragoons (only 180 with horses) 394
Artillery 226
5th Regiment (1st batt.) 990
9th ” ” 833
36th ” 591
38th ” (1st batt.) 957
40th ” ” 926
45th ” ” 670
60th Rifles (5th batt.) 936
71st Regiment (1st batt.) 903
91st ” ” 917
95th Rifles (2nd batt., four companies) 400
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8,123
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(2) Spencer’s troops from Andalusia:
Artillery 245
6th Regiment (1st batt.) 946
29th ” 806
32nd ” (1st batt.) 874
50th ” ” 948
82nd ” ” 929
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4,503 394 471
A total of 12,626 infantry, 394 cavalry, 471 artillery = 13,491;
adding forty-five men of the Staff Corps we get 13,536.
[189] To understand what Wellesley must have felt, we have only
to read his rather captious letter of 1801 (_Suppl. Disp._, ii.
362) to his own brother concerning his merits, his promotion, and
his career. The man who could so write must have felt the blow in
the worst way.
[190] _Well. Disp._, iv. 43.
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