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Battle of Vitoria order of battle

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This is the order of battle for the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813).

Contents

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)

    Reserve Artillery (Lt Col Julius Hartmann)

  • Webber-Smith's Troop Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
  • Parker's Company Royal Artillery (RA)
  • Arriaga's Portuguese Battery
  • Engineers: 892

    Right Column

    Lt Gen Rowland Hill

    Right Centre Column

    Lt Gen Lowry Cole

    Left Centre Column

    Lt Gen George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie

    Left Column

    Lt Gen Thomas Graham


    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)

    Army of the South

    GD Honoré Gazan

    Army of the Centre

    GD Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon

    Army of Portugal

    GD Honoré Charles Reille

    King Joseph's Spanish Army


    From Fletcher (2005), Vittoria 1813, pp. 32-33 unless otherwise cited. |- |}

    References

    Battle of Vitoria order of battle Wikipedia