This is the order of battle for the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813).
Abbreviations used[]
Military rank[]
- Gen = General
- Lt Gen = Lieutenant-General
- Maj Gen = Major-General
- GD = général de division
- Brig Gen = Brigadier-General
- GB = général de brigade
- Col = Colonel
- Lt Col = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Capt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
Other[]
- (w) = wounded
- (mw) = mortally wounded
- (k) = killed in action
- (c) = captured
Allied army[]
Commander-in-Chief: Lt Gen (local General) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington
Total Allied Forces: 81,136 (68,222 infantry, 7,715 cavalry, 5,199 artillery and train)
Artillery: Lt Col Alexander Dickson (4,307 gunners and train, approx. 90 guns[1])
Reserve Artillery (Lt Col Julius Hartmann)
- Webber-Smith's troop RHA
- Parker's battery RA
- Arriaga's Portuguese battery
Engineers: 892
Right Column[]
Lt Gen Rowland Hill
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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| Portuguese Brigade
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| Portuguese Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Spanish Division [2]
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Unbrigaded |
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| Cavalry
|
Light Cavalry Brigade
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| Heavy Cavalry Brigade
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| Artillery
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| Total Right Column: 22,519 (20,672 infantry, 1,847 cavalry) | ||
Right Centre Column[]
Lt Gen Lowry Cole
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 4th Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd (Fusilier) Brigade
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| Portuguese Brigade
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| Light Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Cavalry
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Household Cavalry Brigade
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| Light Cavalry Brigade
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| Heavy Cavalry Brigade
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| Portuguese Cavalry Brigade
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| Artillery |
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| Total Right Centre Column: 17,817 (13,400 infantry, 4,417 cavalry) | ||
Left Centre Column[]
Lt Gen George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Portuguese Brigade
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| 7th Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Portuguese Brigade
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| Artillery
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| Total Left Centre Column: 14,752 infantry | ||
Left Column[]
Lt Gen Thomas Graham
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Division
|
1st (Guards) Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 5th Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Portuguese Brigade
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| Independent Portuguese Brigades
|
Pack's Brigade
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| Bradford's Brigade
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| Spanish Division [2]
|
Unbrigaded |
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| Cavalry
|
Light Cavalry Brigade
|
|
| Heavy Cavalry Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery |
| |
| Total Anglo-Portuguese Forces: 20,849 (19,398 infantry, 1,451 cavalry) | ||
From Glover (2001), The Peninsular War, pp. 382-385 unless otherwise cited.
French Army[]
Commander-in-Chief: King Joseph Bonaparte
Chief of Staff: Marshal Jean Baptiste Jourdan
French Army total: 69,212 (51,645 infantry, 11,002 cavalry, 6,565 artillery and train, 151 guns)[5]
Army of the South[]
GD Honoré Gazan
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Division
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery |
| |
| 3rd Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| Artillery |
| |
| 4th Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| Artillery |
| |
| 5th Division (detachment)
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 6th Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| Artillery |
| |
| 1st Cavalry Division
|
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| 2nd Cavalry Division
|
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| 3rd Cavalry Division
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| Auxiliary Troops
|
| |
| Total Army of the South: 33,511 (25,377 infantry, 5,123 cavalry, 3,011 auxiliary) | ||
Army of the Centre[]
GD Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd (German) Brigade
|
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| 2nd Division [6]
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| 1st Cavalry Division
|
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| 2nd Cavalry Division
|
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| Auxiliary Troops
|
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| Total Army of the Centre: 12,023 (9,681 infantry, 1,512 cavalry, 830 auxiliary) | ||
Army of Portugal[]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 4th Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| Artillery |
| |
| 6th Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| Artillery |
| |
| 1st Cavalry Division
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 2nd Brigade
|
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| 2nd Cavalry Division
|
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| Auxiliary Troops
|
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| Total Army of Portugal: 17,240 (11,337 infantry, 3,272 cavalry, 2,631 auxiliary) | ||
King Joseph's Spanish Army[]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Guard (French)
|
Infantry
|
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| Cavalry
|
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| Troops of the Line (Spanish)
|
Infantry
|
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| Cavalry
|
| |
| Army of the North[8] | Mixed detachment (800) | |
| Artillery |
One battery (93) | |
| Total King Joseph's Spanish Army: 6,438 (5,250 infantry, 1,095 cavalry, 93 artillery) | ||
From Fletcher (2005), Vittoria 1813, pp. 32-33 unless otherwise cited.
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Notes[]
- ↑ Figures for guns are not given in Glover or Lipscombe, but there are 15 batteries listed, which with a standard complement of 6 guns each would give a total of 90 guns.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lipscombe (2010). Appendix 6
- ↑ According to Lipscombe (2010), Ramsay's troop was attached to Bock's Cavalry Brigade in the Left Column
- ↑ This includes strength for all the companies of 5/60th Rifles distributed through other brigades (Glover, p. 385)
- ↑ Sources differ on the number of guns present. 151 is commonly used, but Lipscombe (2010) puts the figure as low as 117. With 18 foot batteries and 3 horse batteries, the full complement would be 162, so 151 is not unreasonable.
- ↑ On loan from Army of the South
- ↑ Fletcher (2005), p. 68. Source noted Sarrut's mortal wounding.
- ↑ Glover (2001), pp. 392-393. French OOB.
References[]
- Fletcher, Ian (2005). Vittoria 1813: Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0=275-98616-0.
- Gates, David (2002). The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0-7126-9730-6.
- Glover, Michael (2001). The Peninsular War 1807-1814. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-141-39041-7.
- Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of (1838). "The dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington : during his various campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818". John Murray. http://www.archive.org/details/dispatchesoffiel10welluoft. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
- Lipscombe, Nick (2010). The Peninsular War Atlas. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84908-364-9.
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