Note 400 — SECTION XIV: CHAPTER II

The whole force consisted of the following, present with the colours:—

Cavalry: Officers. Men.

14th Light Dragoons 20 471

16th Light Dragoons 37 673

20th Light Dragoons 6 237

3rd Light Dragoons K.G.L. 3 57

Infantry:

H. Campbell’s brigade:

Coldstream Guards 33 1,194

3rd Foot Guards 34 1,228

One company 5/60th 2 61

A. Campbell’s brigade:

2/7th Foot 26 559

2/53rd Foot 35 787

One company 5/60th 4 64

1/10th Portuguese – –

Sontag’s brigade:

97th Foot 22 572

2nd Batt. Detachments 35 787

One company 5/60th 2 61

2/16th Portuguese – –

R. Stewart’s brigade:

29th Foot 26 596

1st Batt. Detachments 27 803

1/16th Portuguese – –

Murray’s brigade:

1st Line Batt. K.G.L. 34 767

2nd Line Batt. K.G.L. 32 804

5th Line Batt. K.G.L. 28 720

7th Line Batt. K.G.L. 22 688

Hill’s brigade:

1/3rd Foot 28 719

2/48th Foot 32 721

2/66th Foot 34 667

One company 5/60 Foot 2 61

Cameron’s brigade:

2/9th Foot 27 545

2/83rd Foot 29 833

One company 5/60 Foot 2 60

2/10th Portuguese – –

With Lawson’s battery of 3-pounders, and Lane’s, Heyse’s, and Rettberg’s of 6-pounders. Allowing 600 each for the Portuguese battalions, the total comes to 16,213 infantry, 1,504 cavalry, and 550 gunners, also sixty-four men of the wagon train, and thirty-nine engineers. Total, 18,370.