Note 718 — SECTION VIII: CHAPTER VI

The force stood as follows:—

Infantry—1st Division, Merle (Brigades Reynaud, Sarrut, Thomières).

2nd Léger (three batts.)

4th Léger (four batts.)

15th of the Line (three batts.)

36th of the Line (three batts.)

Each of Merle’s regiments (of which three were originally two battalions and one three battalions strong) had received an additional battalion from the dissolved corps of Junot, before leaving Astorga.

2nd Division, Mermet (Brigades Gaulois, Jardon, Lefebvre).

31st Léger (four batts.)

47th of the Line (four batts.)

122nd of the Line (four batts.)

2nd Swiss Regiment (two batts.)

3rd Swiss Regiment (one batt.)

The 47th had received two, and the 31st Léger and 2nd Swiss each one battalion from Junot’s corps. The 122nd was a new regiment, consolidated from six battalions of the ‘Supplementary Legions of Reserve.’

3rd Division, Delaborde (Brigades Foy and Arnaud).

17th Léger (three batts.)

70th of the Line (four batts.)

86th of the Line (three batts.)

4th Swiss Regiment (one batt.)

The 70th and 86th, from Portugal, had each received a battalion from Merle’s division, where they had been serving in the autumn. The 17th Léger had been transferred from the 6th Corps to the 2nd.

Cavalry—Lahoussaye’s Division of Dragoons (Brigades Marisy and Caulaincourt).

17th, 18th, 19th, and 27th Dragoons—four regiments.

Lorges’s Division of Dragoons (Brigades Vialannes and Fournier).

13th, 15th, 22nd, and 25th Dragoons—four regiments.

Franceschi’s Mixed Division (Brigades Debelle and Girardin [?]).

1st Hussars, 8th Dragoons, 22nd Chasseurs, and Hanoverian Chasseurs—four regiments.

Artillery—600 men (?): exact figures not available.