Note 176 — Chapter I
Reading edition
The column comprised the following troops:—
Two battalions of Reserve Grenadiers 1,100
12th Léger (3rd batt.) 1,253
15th Léger (3rd batt.) 1,305
58th Line (3rd batt.) 1,428
86th Line, twelve companies of the 1st and 2nd batts. 1,667
1st Hanoverian Legion 804
4th and 5th Provisional Dragoons 1,248
Deducting 1,200 for detached grenadier companies, &c., the whole was well over 7,000. For details, see Thiébault’s Expédition de Portugal.