XIII

SPANISH TROOPS ON THE EAST COAST OF SPAIN
IN THE SPRING OF 1812

(A) REMAINS OF THE 2nd (VALENCIAN) AND 3rd (MURCIAN) ARMIES,
MARCH 1

Officers. Men.

1st Division: Conde de Montijo, 1st of Badajoz (2 batts.), Cuenca (2 batts.), 2 squadrons cavalry 110 2,049

2nd Division: General Luis Riquelme, 2nd Walloon Guards, Guadalajara (3 batts.), 1st of Burgos (3 batts.), Guadix (2 batts.), Baden (1 batt.), Alpujarras (1 batt.), dismounted cavalry (1 batt.) 335 5,214

Reserve Division: General Philip Roche. Voluntarios de Aragon, Canarias, Alicante, 2nd of Murcia, Alcazar de San Juan, Chinchilla (1 batt. each), 2 squadrons of Husares de Fernando 7º 300 5,576

Cavalry: General A. Rich. Principe (2 squadrons), España (2 squadrons), Reina (2 squadrons), Carabineros Reales, Farnesio, Montesa, Dragones del Rey, Cazadores de Valencia, Pavia, Rey, Granaderos a caballo, Husares de Castilla (one squadron each), three provisional squadrons 321 1,565

Cadres of dispersed battalions, now reorganizing: Lorca, Velez Malaga, Almanza, America 98 1,079

Artillery (Field) 38 651

Artillery (Garrison) in Alicante and Cartagena 17 582

Engineers 8 202

Total 1,227 16,918

(B) JOSEPH O’DONNELL’S ARMY, JULY 21, 1812, AND ITS LOSSES AT CASTALLA

[The figures of the former from Los Ejércitos españoles. The list of prisoners from Suchet’s dispatch in the Paris Archives de la Guerre.]

Strength. Unwounded
prisoners
reported
by Suchet.

Officers. Men. Total.

Michelena’s
Brigade Corona (1 Batt.) 24 630 2,035 255

Velez Malaga (1 batt.) 36 834 —

Guadix 24 487 337

Montijo’s
Brigade 2nd Walloon Guards (1 batt.) 20 569 2,152 350

Cuenca (2 batts.) 33 890 112

1st of Badajoz (1 batt.) 27 613 —

Mijares’s
Brigade Bailen (1 batt.) 32 708 2,187 405

Alcazar de San Juan (1 batt.) 31 855 434

Lorca (1 batt.) 25 536 242

Cavalry (Provisional Regiment, 2 squadrons) 29 207 —

Engineers 26 325 —

Roche’s Division:

1st of Burgos (2 batts.) 27 786 —

Canarias (1 batt.) 34 818 —

Alicante (2 batts.) 35 1,110 —

Chinchilla (2 batts.) 26 918 —

Total 429 10,286 2,135

Suchet also reports 697 wounded prisoners, of whom 56 died of their wounds.

No figures are given for the detached cavalry division of Santesteban, which was not in action at Castalla.