Chapter LXXX: Section 2

_Adjutant-general’s state of the troops assembled at Tarifa, under the command of the lieut.-general Graham, 25th Feb. 1810._

Number of
Designations. bayonets. Commanders.

Two squadrons of 2d } ” Major Busche.
German Hussars. }

Detachment of artillery. Major Duncan. 10 guns

Detachment of engineers 47 Captain Birch.

Brigade of guards, reinforced }
by a detachment } 1221 Brigadier-gen. Dilke.
of the 2d battalion 95th }
rifles }

1st battalion 28th foot; }
2d battalion 67th; 2d }
battalion 87th; reinforced } 1764 Colonel Wheatley.
with 2 companies }
of the 20th Portuguese }

Flank battalion composed }
of detachments of the }
3d battalion 95th rifles } 594 Lt.-col. A. Barnard,
and two companies of } 95th regt.
the 47th foot }

Two companies of 2d battalion }
9th regt.; two }
companies of 1st battalion } 475 Lt.-col. Brown, 28th regt.
28th regt.; two }
companies of 2d battalion }
82 regt. }

One Company of the royal } 33 Lieutenant Reid.
staff corps }
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Total number of bayonets 4114
The hussars were about 180
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Total of sabres and bayonets 4294, with 10 guns.

SECTION 3.

_Extract from a letter of general Frederick Ponsonby._

“I proceeded rapidly towards the entrance of the wood, found the Germans, and conducted them along the right flank of our little army. We came in contact with the French dragoons, whom we found nearly abreast of our front line and about three hundred yards apart from it on our right flank, our line had just halted and the firing was gradually decreasing at the time we charged. I do not imagine the French dragoons much exceeded us in number, they behaved well, but if we had had half a dozen stout squadrons the mass of beaten infantry would not have returned to their camp.”