Battle of Bussaco order of battle

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This is the order of battle for the Battle of Bussaco, 27 September 1810.

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French Army of Portugal

Commander-in-Chief: Marshal Masséna

Army total: 65,050 (49,809 infantry, 8,419 cavalry, 144 guns)

II Corps

GD Jean Reynier

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others
1st Division


    GD Pierre Hugues Victoire Merle
    (6,589 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Jacques Thomas Sarrut

  • 2e Légère (4 bns)
  • 36e Ligne (4 bns)
2nd Brigade


    GB Jean François Graindorge

  • 4e Légère (3 or 4 bns)
2nd Division


    GD Étienne Heudelet de Bierre
    (8,087 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Maximilien Sébastien Foy

  • 17e Légère (3 bns)
  • 70e Ligne (4 bns)
2nd Brigade


    GB Arnaud

  • 31e Légère (4 bns)
  • 47e Ligne (3 or 4 bns)
Cavalry Brigade


    GB Pierre Benoît Soult
    (1,397 total)

  • 1e Hussards
  • 22e Chasseurs à Cheval
  • 8e Dragons
  • Hanoverian Chasseurs
Artillery


    (1,645 total)

  • 3 batteries (24 guns)
Corps total: 17,718 (14,676 infantry, 1,397 cavalry, 24 guns)

VI Corps

Marshal Michel Ney

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others
1st Division


    GD Jean Gabriel Marchand
    (6,671 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune

  • 6e Légère (3 bns)
  • 69e Ligne (3 or 4 bns)
2nd Brigade


    GB Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet

  • 39e Ligne (3 or 4 bns)
  • 76e Ligne (3 or 4 bns)
2nd Division


    GD Julien Augustin Joseph Mermet
    (7,616 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Bardet

  • 25e Légère
  • 27e Ligne
2nd Brigade


    GB Labassée

  • 50e Ligne
  • 59e Ligne
3rd Division


    GD Louis Henri Loison
    (6,750 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Simon
    (3,250 total)

  • 26e Ligne
  • Légion du Midi
  • Légion Hannoverienne
2nd Brigade


    GB Claude François Ferey
    (3,500 total)

  • 2/32e Légère
  • 66e Ligne
  • 82e Ligne
Cavalry Brigade


    GB Lamotte
    (1,680 total)

  • 3e Hussards
  • 15e Chasseurs à Cheval
Artillery


    (1,513 total)

  • 4 batteries (32 guns)
Corps total: 24,306 (21,113 infantry, 1,680 cavalry, 32 guns)

VIII Corps

GD Jean-Andoche Junot

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others
1st Division


    GD Bertrand Clausel
    (6,794 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Jean François Ménard
    (2,339 total)

  • 4th Battalion, 19e Ligne
  • 4th Battalion, 25e Ligne
  • 4th Battalion, 28e Ligne
  • 4th Battalion, 34e Ligne
2nd Brigade


    GB Eloi Charlemagne Taupin
    (1,949 total)

  • 4th Battalion, 15e Légère
  • 4th Battalion, 46e Ligne
  • 4th Battalion, 75e Ligne
3rd Brigade


    GB Roch Godard
    (2,507 total)

  • 22e Ligne (4 bns)
2nd Division


    GD Jean Baptiste Solignac
    (7,226 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Pierre Guillaume Gratien
    (2,470 total)

  • 15e Ligne (3 bns)
  • 86e Ligne (3 bns)
2nd Brigade


    GB Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières
    (4,756 total)

Cavalry Brigade


    GB Charles Marie Robert Escorches de Saint-Croix (k)
    (1,863 total)

  • 1e Dragons (2 sqns)
  • 2e Dragons (2 sqns)
  • 4e Dragons (2 sqns)
  • 9e Dragons (2 sqns)
  • 14e Dragons (2 sqns)
  • 26e Dragons (2 sqns)
Artillery


    GD Louis François Foucher de Careil
    (981 total)

  • 3 batteries (24 guns)
Corps total: 16,939 (14,020 infantry, 1,863 cavalry, 24 guns)

Reserves

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others
Reserve Cavalry Division


    GD Louis-Pierre Montbrun
    (3,479 total)

1st Brigade


    GB Cavrois

  • 14e Hussards
  • 19e Hussards
  • 27e Chasseurs à Cheval
2nd Brigade


    GB Philippe Antoine d'Ornano

  • 19e Dragons
  • 21e Dragons
Reserve Artillery


    (2,608 total)

  • 8 batteries
  • Engineers, gendarmerie etc.
Corps total: 6,087 (3,479 cavalry, 64 guns)

Anglo-Portuguese Army

Commander-in-Chief: Lt Gen Viscount Wellington

Army total: 51,768 (49,328 infantry, 210 cavalry, 60 guns)

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others
1st Division


    Maj Gen Brent Spencer
    (7,053 total)

1st Brigade


    Col the Hon Edward Stopford
    (1,684 total)

  • 1/Coldstream Guards
  • 1/3rd Guards
  • coy, 5/60th Rifles
2nd Brigade


    Lt Col Lord Blantyre
    (1,516 total)

  • 2/24th Foot
  • 1/42nd Foot
  • 1/61st Foot
  • coy, 5/60th Rifles
3rd Brigade


    Maj Gen Baron Löw
    (2,061 total)

  • 1st KGL Line
  • 2nd KGL Line
  • 5th KGL Line
  • 7th KGL Line
  • detachments, 1st & 2nd KGL Light Bns
4th Brigade


    Col the Hon Edward Pakenham
    (1,792 total)

  • 1/7th Foot
  • 1/79th Foot
Artillery
  • von Rettberg's Battery, KGA
2nd Division


    Maj Gen Rowland Hill
    (5,737 total)

1st Brigade


    Maj Gen the Hon William Stewart
    (2,247 total)

  • 1/3rd Foot
  • 2/31st Foot
  • 2/48th Foot
  • 2/66th Foot
  • coy, 5/60th Rifles
2nd Brigade


    Col William Inglis
    (1,818 total)

  • 29th Foot
  • 1/48th Foot
  • 1/57th Foot
3rd Brigade


    Brig Gen Catlin Craufurd
    (1,672 total)

  • 2/28th Foot
  • 2/34th Foot
  • 2/39th Foot
Artillery
  • de Rozierres' Portuguese Battery
  • da Cunha Preto's Portuguese Battery
3rd Division


    Maj Gen Thomas Picton
    (4,743 total)

1st Brigade


    Col Henry MacKinnon
    (1,808 total)

  • 1/45th Foot
  • 1/74th Foot
  • 1/88th Foot
2nd Brigade


    Maj Gen Stafford Lightburne
    (1,160 total)

  • 2/5th Foot
  • 2/83rd Foot
  • 5/60th Rifles (3 coys)
Portuguese Brigade


    Col José Joaquim Champalimaud
    (1,775 total)

  • 9th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 21st Portuguese Line (1 bn)
Artillery
  • da Silva's Portuguese Battery
  • Freira's Portuguese Battery
  • Thompson's Battery, RA
4th Division


    Maj Gen the Hon Lowry Cole
    (7,400 total)

1st Brigade


    Brig Gen Alexander Campbell
    (2,109 total)

  • 2/7th Foot
  • 1/11th Foot
  • 2/53rd Foot
  • coy, 5/60th Rifles
2nd Brigade


    Col James Kemmis
    (2,448 total)

  • 3/27th Foot
  • 1/40th Foot
  • 97th Foot
Portuguese Brigade


    Col Richard Collins
    (2,843 total)

  • 11th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 23rd Portuguese Line (2 bns)
Artillery
5th Division


    Maj Gen James Leith
    (7,305 total)

British Brigade


    Lt Col James Stevenson Barnes
    (1,879 total)

  • 1/3rd Foot
  • 1/9th Foot
  • 2/38th Foot
Spry's Portuguese Brigade


    Col William Spry
    (2,619 total)

  • 3rd Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 15th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • Thomar Militia
Eben's Portuguese Brigade


    Col Frederick Baron Eben
    (2,807 total)

  • Loyal Lusitanian Legion (2 bns)
  • 8th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
Light Division


    Brig Gen Robert Craufurd
    (3,787 total)

1st Brigade


    Lt Col Sidney Beckwith
    (1,896 total)

  • 1/43rd Foot
  • 1/95th Rifles (4 coys)
  • 3rd Caçadores
2nd Brigade


    Lt Col Robert Barclay
    (1,891 total)

  • 1/52nd Foot
  • 1/95th Rifles (4 coys)
  • 1st Caçadores
Artillery
Portuguese Division


    Maj Gen John Hamilton
    (4,940 total)

1st Brigade


    Brig Gen Archibald Campbell
    (2,250 total)

  • 4th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 10th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
2nd Brigade


    Brig Gen Luiz Fonseca
    (2,690 total)

  • 2nd Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 14th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
Independent Portuguese Brigades1st Independent Portuguese Brigade


    Brig Gen Denis Pack
    (2,769 total)

  • 1st Portuguese Line (2 bns) - Major Thomas Noel Hill
  • 16th Portuguese (Vieira Telles) Line (2 bns)
  • 4th Caçadores
5th Independent Portuguese Brigade


    Brig Gen Alexander Campbell
    (3,249 total)

  • 6th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 18th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 6th Caçadores
6th Independent Portuguese Brigade


    Brig Gen Francis Coleman
    (2,345 total)

  • 7th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 19th Portuguese Line (2 bns)
  • 2nd Caçadores
Cavalry


    (210 total)

  • 4th Dragoons (2 sqns)
Reserve Artillery


    Brig Gen Edward Howarth
    (2,230 total) [1]

Corps total: 51,768 (49,328 infantry, 210 cavalry, 60 guns)

References

  1. ↑ Includes all artillery attached to divisions

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