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HILL’S FORCE IN ESTREMADURA
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1811

Officers. Men. Total.

2nd Division:

Byng’s Brigade: 1/3rd, 1/57th, 2/31st, 2/66th 306 5,548 5,854

Howard’s Brigade: 1/50th, 1/71st, 1/92nd

Wilson’s Brigade: 1/28th, 1/34th, 1/39th

Hamilton’s Portuguese Division:

2nd, 4th, 10th, 14th Line (2 batts. each) 224 4,858 5,082

Ashworth’s Portuguese Brigade:

6th and 18th Line and 6th Caçadores (5 batts.) 81 2,338 2,419

CAVALRY. Major-General Sir W. Erskine:

Long’s Cavalry Brigade: 9th and 13th Light Dragoons, 2nd Hussars K.G.L. 50 803 853

Le Marchant’s Brigade: 3rd Dragoons, 4th Dragoon Guards 36 929 965

Brigade of Portuguese Cavalry (5th and 8th regts.) 57 591 648

Artillery, British: Lefebure’s Troop R.H.A., Hawker’s and Meadows’s Companies R.A., about 20 320 340

Artillery, Portuguese: 2 companies (Arriaga and Braun), about 10 220 230

Engineers and Train, about 13 80 93

General Total 797 15,687 16,484