Orders of Battle for
Bussaco September 27, 1810 Anglo-Portuguese Army - Wellington
Army Cavalry* Brigade
DeGrey - 1 base (3rd Dragoon Guards) Brigade Slade - 2 bases (1st
Dragoons) Brigade Anson - 2 bases (16th Light dragoons, 1 KGL
Hussars) Brigade Fane - 3 bases (1st, 4th & 10th Portuguese)
Army Artillery (all
medium) 1 Royal Horse, 2 Royal Foot, 1 KGL, 3 Portuguese Foot
1st Infantry Division -
Spencer Brigade Stopford - 3 bases Elite (Coldstream & Scots
Guards) Brigade Blantyre - 3 bases Veteran (24th, 42nd, 61st) Brigade
Lowe - 4 bases (1st, 2nd, 5th KGL) Brigade Pakenham - 3 bases (7th &
79th)
2nd Infantry Division -
Hill Brigade Stewart - 4 bases (3rd, 48th, 66th) Brigade
Inglis - 3 bases (29th, 48th, 57th) Brigade Craufurd - 3 bases (28th, 34th,
39th) Brigade Archibald - 4 bases (4th & 10th Portuguese
line) Brigade Fonseca - 5 bases (2nd & 14th Portuguese line)
3rd Infantry Division -
Picton Brigade Mackinnon - 3 bases (45th, 74th, 88th) Brigade
Lightburne - 2 bases (5th, 83rd) Brigade Champlemond - 3 bases (9th &
21st Portuguese line)
4th Infantry Division -
Cole Brigade Campbell - 4 bases (7th, 11th, 53rd) Brigade
Kemmis - 4 bases (27th, 40th, 97th) Brigade Collins - 5 bases (11th &
23rd Portuguese line)
5th Infantry Division -
Leith Brigade Barne - 3 bases (1st, 9th, 38th) Brigade Spry -
5 bases (3rd & 15th Portuguese line) Brigade Eben - 3 bases (Lusitanian
Legion) 8th line - 2 bases
Light Division -
Craufurd Brigade Beckwith - 3 veteran bases (1 base each 43rd
light, 95th light & 3rd Cacadores) Brigade Barclay - 3 veteran bases (1
base each 52nd light, 95th light & 1st Cacadores)
Portuguese Division* -
Lecor Brigade Bradford - 4 bases Militia Brigade - 4 bases
Militia Cacadores - 1 base
Portuguese Army
Brigades Brigade Pack - 5 bases (1st & 16th Portuguese
line) Brigade Campbell - 6 bases (6th & 18th Portuguese line) Brigade
Coleman - 4 bases (7th & 19th Portuguese line)
* - In the vicinity of Bussaco.
Army of Portugal - Massena
Army Cavalry -
Montbrun Brigade Lorcet - 3 bases (3rd, 6th Dragoons) Brigade
Gardanne - 3 bases (13th, 25th Dragoons) 1 battery light horse
2nd Corps - Reynier
Corps Cavalry Brigade Soult
- 2 bases (22nd Chasseurs, Hanoverian Chasseurs)
Corps artillery - Tirlet 2
batteries medium foot artillery, 1 battery light foot artillery
1st Division - Merle 2nd
light - 4 bases 36th line - 4 bases 4th light - 4 bases
2nd Division -
Heudelet 17th light - 3 bases 70th line - 4 bases 31st
light - 3 bases 47th line - 4 bases 6th Corps -
Ney
Corps Cavalry Brigade Lamotte - 3 bases (3rd
Hussars, 15th Chasseurs)
Corps Artillery -
Charbonnel 1 battery heavy foot artillery, 2 batteries medium
foot artillery
1st Division - Marchand 6th
light - 3 bases 69th line - 3 bases 39th line - 3 bases 76th line - 3
bases
2nd Division - Mermet 25th
light - 3 bases 27th line - 3 bases 50th line - 4 bases 59th line - 4
bases
3rd Division -
Loison Brigade Hermaun - 3 bases (Legion du Midi, Hanoverian
Legion) 26th line - 3 bases 66th line - 3 bases 82nd line - 3
bases 8th Corps - Junot
Corps Cavalry Brigade St.
Croix - 3 bases (1st, 2nd, 14th Dragoons)
Corps Artillery - Fouchet 2
batteries medium foot artillery, 1 battery light foot artillery
1st Division -
Clausel Brigade Menard - 4 bases (19th, 25th, 28th, 34th
line) Brigade Taupin - 4 bases (15th light, 46th & 76th line) 22nd
line - 4 bases
2nd Division -
Solignac 15th line - 2 bases 86th line - 2 bases 65th line
- 5 bases Irish Regiment - 2 bases Prussian Regiment - 2 bases |