3rd Dragoon Guards. 4th Hussars. 14th Hussars. 16th Lancers. Coldstream Guards. Scots Guards. Buffs. Royal Fusiliers. South Wales Borderers. Gloucesters. Worcesters. East Surrey. South Lancashire. Sherwood Foresters. Northamptons. Royal Berkshires. Shropshire Light Infantry. King's Royal Rifles. Royal Irish Rifles. Royal Irish Fusiliers. Connaught Rangers. Talavera was a very different stamp of fight to anything in which our troops had been previously engaged in the Peninsula. We had but 20,000 men present, and our losses amounted to 4,000 killed and wounded, those of the French to over 7,000. The full fruits of the victory were lost owing to the failure of our Spanish allies to afford us proper support, and the British army was compelled to retire on the following day, leaving its wounded in the hands of the French. It is true that we captured 17 guns, but the fact of our retreat, coupled with the abandonment of the sick and wounded, have induced the French to claim Talavera as a French victory. Marshal Victor was created Duke of Talavera by King Joseph, while Sir Arthur Wellesley was raised to the peerage under the title of Lord Wellington,--of Wellington, in the county of Somerset, and of Talavera. The fighting was exceedingly severe, and on more than one occasion matters looked very doubtful. Sir Arthur, however, had every reason to be proud of the manner in which his men faced the tried veterans of France. CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF TALAVERA, JULY 27 AND 28, 1809.