Allied
(From East to West)
Skirmish Screen
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3 Companies, 5/60th (Rifles): 254
3 detached light companies: c. 160
12th Cacadores: 600 est
First Column
Wallace's Brigade
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1/45th Foot: 442*
74th Foot: 443*
1/88th Foot: 642*
From Power's Brigade
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9th Portuguese Line (2 btns): 800**
Second Column
Campbell's Brigade
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1/5th Foot: 902
2/5th Foot: 308
2/83rd Foot: 319
94th Foot: 347
From Power's Brigade
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21st Portuguese Line (2 btns): 800**
battery of 8th Btn Royal Foor Art. (Capt. Douglas)
- 5 x 9-pounder guns and 1 5.5-inch howitzer
Third Column
Alten's Light Cavalry Brigade
Under Col. Arentschildt
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1st Hussars KGL (3 sqdns): 399
14th Light Dragoons (2 sqdns): 175
- 2 squadrons of the 14th remained on the allied left wing, where Alten has been wounded and forced to quit the field.
Fourth Column
D'Urban's Brigade
- 1st and 11th Portuguese Dragoons: 482
Total Strength: 5847 infantry, 1228 cavalry, 6 guns
* Less the detached light companies
** By some accounts, the Portuguese Brigade advanced between the British units. But others claim that the two line regiments were allocated to the end of Wallace's and Campbell's formations. Pakenham himself wrote that the Third Division advanced in just two columns. Total brigade strength was 2,200.
French
Curto's Light Cav Division
1st Brigade
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3rd Hussar, 3 escadrons: 248
22nd Chasseurs, 2 escadrons: 253
26th Chasseurs, 2 escadrons: 294
28th Chasseurs, 1 escadron: 94
2nd Brigade
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13th Chasseurs, 5 escadrons: 516
14th Chasseurs, 4 escadron: 322
Escadron de marche: 152
Pico de Miranda:
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101st Ligne, 3 bttns: 1449
Divisional Artillery: 6 x 4-pounder guns***
Monte de Azan:
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1st Ligne, 3 bttns: 1763
62nd Ligne, 2 bttns: 1723
*** It might be thought strange for a divisional battery to use such small caliber guns, but he allies captured mainly 4-lbers at Salamanca. The French in Spain used the "unreformed" Gribeauval range of 4-, 8-, and 12-lbers, the former prized for their mobility and not only by horse artillery. Marmont's Army was anyway particularly short of healthy teams to pull heavier ordnance.
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