[271] On June 1 Craufurd calculated the troops in front of Ciudad Rodrigo, by counting regiments and battalions, at over 25,000 men. There were really 30,000, and the under-estimate came from allowing only 550 men to a battalion, while they really averaged 650. About the same time Craufurd estimated the parts of Junot’s corps in the neighbourhood to be 13,000 men: they were really nearly 17,000. The cause of error was the same. See Shaw-Kennedy’s _Diary_, pages 190-5. The estimates are corrected, on fuller information, early in July, see ibid., p. 220. [272] To Charles Stuart, June 8, and to Hill, June 9. [273] This movement, unchronicled elsewhere, appears in D’Urban’s diary, April 26. ‘The Portuguese ordered to the front, consisting of two brigades of artillery, 4th and 6th Caçadores, 1st and 16th (Pack), 7th and 19th (Coleman), 6th and 18th (Alex. Campbell), 11th and 23rd (Collins), 9th and 21st (Harvey) of the Line. They all go into march on the 28th, and will arrive by successive brigades at Celorico in four days.’ [274] At this moment the total force of the allied army was:-- 1st Division (all British) 6,000 bayonets. 3rd ” British 2,500 with Harvey’s Portuguese 1,800 4th ” ” 4,000 with Collins’s ” 2,500 Light ” ” 2,500 with 2 Caçador Batts. 1,000 Pack’s, Campbell’s, and Coleman’s Portuguese brigades 8,000 Cavalry (British) 2,100 Portuguese 700 Artillery ” 1,000 Portuguese 600 ------ ------ 18,100 14,600