Note 571 — SECTION XVI: CHAPTER II

Writing to Castlereagh on June 30, Wellesley remarks that ‘according to your account I have 35,000 men—according to my own I have only 18,000,’ but this was before he had been joined by the 1/61st, the 23rd Dragoons, and certain details. It is certain, from the careful table of troops engaged at Talavera which is to be found in the Record Office, that somewhat over 22,000 men entered Spain, and that after deducting sick left at Plasencia and elsewhere, just 20,600 fought at Talavera.