Note 27 — Chapter XVIII
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Picton headed the 3rd Division; Kempt its 1st Brigade. Colville commanded the 4th Division; Bowes its 2nd Brigade. Walker the 2nd Brigade of the 5th Division. The total loss of the British during the siege was 72 officers and 963 men killed, and 306 officers and 3483 men wounded. There were also 100 missing, mostly, it is believed, men whose bodies fell into the Guadiana or the Rivillas and were not found. This gives a total of 4924, so that Grattan’s figure of “over 5000” is hardly exaggerated.