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Chapter 26

I

Appendices

SUCHET’S ARMY IN VALENCIA. MORNING STATE OF OCT. 1, 1811

Officers. Men. Total.

1st Division (Musnier):

Robert’s Brigade 114th Line (3 batts.) 58 1,579 1,637

1st of the Vistula (2 batts.) 27 836 863

Ficatier’s Brigade 121st Line (3 batts.) 44 1,156 1,200

2nd of the Vistula (2 batts.) 26 1,103 1,129 = 4,829

2nd Division (Harispe):

Paris’s Brigade 7th Line (4 batts.) 55 1,584 1,639

116th Line (3 batts.) 42 1,105 1,147

Chlopiski’s Brigade 44th Line (2 batts.) 35 1,191 1,226

3rd of the Vistula (2 batts.) 26 724 750 = 4,762

3rd Division (Habert):

Montmarie’s Brigade 5th Line (2 batts.) 31 771 802

16th Line (3 batts.) 56 1,261 1,317

Bronikowski’s Brigade 117th Line (3 batts.) 49 1,291 1,340 = 3,459

Palombini’s Italian Division:

Saint Paul’s Brigade 2nd Léger (3 batts.) 59 2,141 2,200

4th Line (3 batts.) 57 1,603 1,660

Balathier’s Brigade 5th Line (2 batts.) 37 893 930

6th Line (3 batts.). 51 1,378 1,429 = 6,219

Compère’s Neapolitan Division:

1st Léger (1 batt.) 27 419 446

1st Line (1 batt.) 24 536 560

2nd Line (1 batt.) 27 358 385 = 1,391

Cavalry (General Boussard):

4th Hussars (4 squadrons) 30 720 750

24th Dragoons (2 squadrons) 17 419 436

13th Cuirassiers (4 squadrons) 27 557 584

Italian ‘Dragoons of Napoleon’ 24 442 466

Neapolitan Chasseurs 13 156 169 = 2,405

Artillery (General Vallée) 48 1,757 1,805

Engineers (General Rogniat) 16 584 600

Équipages Militaires and Gendarmerie 10 653 663 = 3,068

916 25,217 26,133 26,133

N.B.—Ficatier’s Brigade, 3 battalions of Palombini’s division, and two squadrons of 4th Hussars were not present at the battle of Saguntum, being on the line of communications, and blockading Peniscola and Oropesa.

This return, lent me by Mr. Fortescue who found it in the Paris Archives, differs by over 2,000 men from Suchet’s figures given in his Mémoires, p. 436 of vol. ii. The Marshal has left out the 3 battalions and 2 squadrons on the line of communications, mentioned above.