Note 462 — SECTION XXVI: CHAPTER V

The force under Beresford comprised (figures of March): British—2nd Division, 5,500; 4th Division, 4,200; Alten’s brigade, 1,100; Cavalry, 1,200; Artillery, &c., 500. Total, 12,500. Portuguese—Hamilton’s division, 5,000; Harvey’s brigade of the 4th Division, 2,900; Collins’s brigade (an extemporized unit of which more anon) 1,400; Otway’s and Madden’s cavalry, 1,000; Artillery, 250. Total, 10,550. The whole, therefore, was about 23,000 instead of the 16,000 on which Napoleon calculated. At Albuera there were absent from the above one British brigade (Kemmis of the 4th Division) and one Portuguese cavalry brigade (Madden), nearly 2,000 men in all. Yet Beresford put 20,000 Anglo-Portuguese in line.