Battle of Vitoria - Forces

Forces

British, Portuguese and Spanish French Army

General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington

  • Right Center Column (General the Marquess of Wellington)
    • 4th Division (Lieut-Gen. Lowry Cole) (7,300)
    • Light Division (Maj-Gen. Charles Alten) (5,500)
    • Cavalry
      • Household Cavalry Brigade (Lieut-Col. Robert Hill) (900)
      • Light Cavalry Brigade (Col. Colquhoun Grant) (1,600)
      • Heavy Cavalry Brigade (Maj-Gen William Ponsonby) (1,200)
      • Portuguese Cavalry Brigade (Brig-Gen. Benjamin D'Urban) (700)
    • Artillery (Major Augustus Simon Frazer)
      • Ross' troop RHA
      • Gardiner's troop RHA
      • Ramsay's troop RHA
      • Sympher's battery KGL
  • Right Column (Lieut-Gen. Rowland Hill)
    • 2nd Division (Lieut-Gen. William Stewart) (10,800)
    • Portuguese Division (Maj-Gen. Francisco Silveira, Count of Amarante) (5,300)
    • Spanish Division (Maj-Gen. Pablo Morillo) (4,600)
    • Cavalry
      • Light Cavalry Brigade (Maj-Gen. Victor Alten) (1,000)
      • Heavy Cavalry Brigade (Maj-Gen. Henry Fane) (800)
    • Artillery (Maj. Joseph Carncross)
      • Beane's troop RHA
      • Maxwell's battery RA
      • Tulloh's 2 Portuguese batteries
  • Left Centre Column (Lieut-Gen. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie)
    • 3rd Division (Lieut-Gen. Thomas Picton) (7,500)
      • 1st Brigade (Maj-Gen. Thomas Brisbane)
      • 2nd Brigade (Maj-Gen. Charles Colville)
      • Power's Portuguese Brigade (Maj-Gen. Manley Power)
    • 7th Division (Lieut-Gen. the Earl of Dalhousie) (7,300)
    • Artillery (Maj. Richard Buckner)
      • Cairnes' Battery RA
      • Douglas' Battery RA
  • Left Column (Lieut-Gen. Thomas Graham)
    • 1st Division (Maj-Gen. Kenneth Howard) (4,900)
    • 5th Division (Maj-Gen. John Oswald) (6,700)
    • Portuguese Independent Brigade (Maj-Gen. Denis Pack) (2,300)
    • Portuguese Independent Brigade (Maj-Gen. Thomas Bradford) (2,400)
    • Spanish Division (Col. Francisco de Longa) (3,100)
    • Cavalry
      • Light Cavalry Brigade (Maj-Gen. George Anson) (800)
      • Heavy Cavalry Brigade (Maj-Gen. George Bock) (600)
    • Artillery
      • Dubordieu's battery RA
      • Lawson's battery RA
    • Reserve Artillery (Lieut-Col. Julius Hartmann)
      • Webber-Smith's troop RHA
      • Parker's battery RA
      • Arriaga's Portuguese battery

Distributed among the four columns, the Allied army had 4,300 gunners
plus 900 engineers, wagoneers and support troops.

King Joseph Bonaparte
Marshal Jean Baptiste Jourdan

  • Army of the South (Maj-Gen. Honoré Gazan)
    • 1st Division (Maj-Gen. Jean François Leval) (4,700)
    • 3rd Division (Maj-Gen. Eugene-Casimir Villatte) (5,700)
    • 4th Division (Maj-Gen. Nicolas François Conroux) (6,400)
    • 6th Division (Maj-Gen. Augustin Darricau) (5,700)
    • Independent Brigade (Brig-Gen. Jean-Pierre Maransin) (2,900)
    • 1st Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Pierre Benoit Soult) (1,500)
    • 2nd Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Jacques Delaistre de Tilly) (1,900)
    • 3rd Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Alexandre Digeon) (1,700)
    • Artillery, Engineers, support troops (2,400)
  • Army of the Centre (Maj-Gen. Jean-Baptiste Drouet D'Erlon)
    • 1st Division (Maj-Gen. Jean Darmagnac) (4,500)
    • 2nd Division (Maj-Gen. Louis Cassagne) (5,200) on loan from Army of the South
    • 1st Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Anne-François-Charles Trelliard) (1,000)
    • 2nd Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Antoine Avy) (500)
    • Artillery, Engineers, support troops (800)
  • Army of Portugal (Maj-Gen. Honoré Reille)
    • 4th Division (Maj-Gen. Jacques Sarrut) (4,800)
    • 6th Division (Maj-Gen. Thomas Mignot de Lamartinière) (6,500)
    • 1st Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Julien Mermet) (1,800)
    • 2nd Cavalry Division (Maj-Gen. Pierre Boyer) (1,500)
    • Artillery, Engineers and support troops (2,500)
  • Army of the North
    • Mixed detachment (800)
  • King Joseph's Spanish Army
    • (French) Royal Guard (Maj-Gen. Guy) (2,300 infantry, 400 cavalry)
    • (Spanish) Troops of the Line (Gen. Casapalacios) (2,100 infantry, 700 cavalry and 100 gunners)

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