+------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |3rd Drag. Gds. | 1 | 1 | - | - | |4th Hussars | - | 3 | - | 9 | |14th Hussars | - | 6 | 3 | 7 | |16th Lancers | - | 1 | 6 | 5 | |23rd Lt. Drag. | 2 | 4 | 47 | 46 | |Royal Artillery | 1 | 3 | 7 | 23 | |Roy. Engineers | - | 2 | - | - | |Coldstream Gds. | 2 | 9 | 33 | 253 | |Scots Guards | 5 | 6 | 49 | 261 | |3rd Buffs | - | 2 | 6 | 107 | |7th Royal Fus. | 1 | 3 | 6 | 53 | |24th S. Wales Borderers | - | 10 | 45 | 274 | |29th Worcesters | - | 7 | 36 | 140 | |31st E. Surrey | 1 | 7 | 34 | 190 | |40th S. Lancs | - | 1 | 17 | 90 | |45th Sherwood Foresters | - | 3 | 13 | 147 | |48th N'ampton | - | 12 | 34 | 280 | |53rd Shropshire L.I. | - | 2 | 6 | 36 | |60th K.R.R. | - | 7 | 10 | 29 | |61st Gloucesters | 3 | 11 | 46 | 196 | |66th R. Berks | - | 11 | 16 | 88 | |83rd Royal Irish Rifles | 4 | 11 | 38 | 282 | |87th R. Irish Fus. | 1 | 13 | 35 | 170 | |88th Connaught Rangers | 3 | 3 | 19 | 85 | |97th West Kent | - | - | 6 | 25 | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ NOTE.--There were two battalions of detachments at Talavera. The one composed of the flank companies of the 52nd, 79th, and 91st lost an officer, and 74 men killed and wounded. The other, made up from the 28th, 35th, 38th, 42nd, and 43rd, had 194 casualties. The Cameron Highlanders lost 9 killed and 28 wounded at Talavera. BUSACO, SEPTEMBER 27, 1810. At Talavera Wellington realized that he was too weak to cope in the field with the immense forces that France had poured into the Peninsula. His plan of campaign now was to wear the enemy down until he should have organized the Portuguese and Spanish armies. He therefore retired once more into Portugal, and commenced that systematic defence of the kingdom which ultimately led to the destruction of French pretensions in the Iberian Peninsula. By the summer of 1810 Napoleon had 300,000 men in Spain. By that time Wellington had thrown up the famous lines of Torres Vedras, behind the shelter of which the task of reorganizing the Portuguese army proceeded apace. The winter of 1809-10 was passed without any open conflict. It was not until the end of September, 1810, that the next great fight was fought, when Wellington, with 50,000 men, barred Massena's advance at the Ridge of Busaco. This battle honour has been conferred on the