Maida : 4 July 1806 - Orders of Battle

 

 

British Forces

• Commander, Expeditionary Force : Major General Sir John Stuart
  
  
  • Advance Guard : Col. John Kempt
    • Combined Light Battalion : 1 Battalion (660)*
    • Corsican Rangers & Sicilian Volunteers : 3 Coys (300)
    
    
  • 1st Brigade : Col. Lowry Cole
    • Combined Grenadier Battalion : 1 Battalion (660)**
    • 27th Foot (Inniskilling) Regt : 1st Battalion (660)
    
    
  • 2nd Brigade : Col. Acland
    • 78th Highland (Rosshire Buffs) Regt : 2nd Battalion (660)
    • 81st Foot Regt : 1st Battalion (660)
    
    
  • 3rd Brigade : Col. Oswald
    • 58th Foot (Rutlandshire) Regt : 1st Battalion (600)
    • De Watteville's Swiss Regt : 4 Coys (300)
    
    
  • Detached from 3rd Brigade : (Ross)
    • 20th Foot (East Devonshire) Regt : 1 Battalion (600)
    
    
  • Artillery :
  • Royal Horse Artillery : 3-6pdr (136)

French Forces

• Commander, Independent Force : General de Division Jean Louis Reynier


• 1st Brigade : Général de Brigade Louis Fursy Henri Compère


• 1st Légère Regt : Two Battalions (1500)
• 42nd Ligne Regt : One Battalion (750)


• 2nd Brigade : Général de Brigade Antoine Digonet
• 23rd Légère Regt : Two Battalions (1500)


• 3rd Brigade : GB Louis-Gaspard-Balthazar-Pierre-Léon-Marie Peyri
• 1st Polish-Italian Legion Regt : Two Battalions (1500)
• 1st Swiss Regt : One Battalion (750)


• Cavalry :
• 9th Chasseurs à Cheval Regt : 1 Sqdn (128)


• Artillery :
• 1st Horse Artillery : 4-4pdr (112)

 

 

Notes:

* Light companies drawn from the 1/20th, 1/27th, 1/35th, 1/58th, 1/61st, 1/81st, Watteville's Regiment, and the "flankers" of the 35th Foot (Sussex) Regiment.

** Grenadier companies drawn from the 20th, 1/27th, 1/35th, 1/58th, 1/81st, and Watteville's Regiment.