Granadan Division: Reding’s Swiss (one batt.) 500 Iliberia (or 1st of Granada) 1,860 Santa Fé (two batts.) 2,300 1st of Antequera 1,100 ------ 5,760 From the Old Catalan Army: Guards [150 Spanish, 280 Walloons] 430 Soria 1,000 2nd of Savoia 800 Provincial Grenadiers of Old and New Castile 1,300 Wimpffen’s Swiss (two batts.) 1,140 Palma Militia 350 ------ 5,020 CAVALRY. Husares of Granada 450 Husares Españoles 250 ---- 700 ARTILLERY. 2 batteries, 8 guns 200 SAPPERS. 1 Company 100 ------ Total 11,800 [Erratum from p. xii: I have found from a Madrid document that part, though not the whole, of the Regiment of Baza was present at Valls. One battalion was left behind with Wimpffen: one marched with Reding: about 800 men therefore must be added to my estimate of the Spanish infantry.] [94] These details are from Doyle’s letter of Feb. 24, in the Record Office. St. Cyr, meanwhile, had not been intending to strike a blow at Tarragona. He regarded it as much more necessary to beat the enemy’s field army than to close in upon the fortress, which would indubitably have offered a long and obstinate resistance. When he got news of Reding’s march to Santa Coloma he resolved to follow him: he was preparing to hasten to the succour of his divisions at Igualada, when he learnt that the Swiss general had turned back, and was hurrying home to Tarragona. He resolved, therefore, to try to intercept him on his return march, and blocked his two available roads by placing Souham’s division at Valls and Pino’s at Pla. They were only eight or nine miles apart, and whichever road the Spaniards took the unassailed French division could easily come to the aid of the other. Reding’s night march, a move which St. Cyr does not seem to have foreseen, nearly enabled him to carry out his plan. In fact, as we shall see, he had almost made an end of the French division before the Marshal, who lay himself at Pla with the Italians, arrived to succour it[95]. [95] The French forces engaged at Valls were:-- Souham’s Division: 1st Léger (three batts.). 42nd of the Line (three batts.).