212 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



and have done every thing in their 

 power to contribute to our success. 



Marshal Soult left Seville on the 

 1st instant with all the troops 

 which he could collect in Anda- 

 lusia; and he was in communica- 

 tion with the troops which had re- 

 tired from Estramadura, under 

 General Drouet, on the 3rd, and 

 he arrived at Llerena on the 4th. 

 I had intended to collect the army 

 in proportion as Marshal Soult 

 should advance; and I requested 

 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas 

 Graham to retire gradually, while 

 Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill 

 should do the same from Don 

 Benito and the upper parts of the 

 Guadiana. 



I do not think it certain that 

 Marshal Soult has made any de- 

 cided movement from Llerena since 

 the 4th, although he has natroled 

 forward with small detachments of 

 cavalr}', and the advanced guard 

 of his infantry have been at Usagre. 



None of the army of Portugal 

 have moved to join him. 



According to the last reports 

 which I have received to the 4th 

 instant on the frontiers of Castile, 

 it appears that Marshal Marmont 

 had established a body of troops 

 between the Agueda and the Coa, 

 and he had reconnoitred Almeida 

 on the 3rd. Brigadier-Gen. Trant's 

 division of militia had arrived on the 

 Coa, and Brigadier-Gen. Wilson's 

 division was following with the 

 cavalry, and Lieut.-General the 

 Conde D'Amarante was on his 

 march, with a part of the corps 

 under his command, towards the 

 Douro. 



I have the honour to enclose re- 

 turns of the killed and wounded 

 from the 31st of March, and in the 

 assault of Badajoz, and a return of 

 the ordnance, small arms, and 



ammunition found in the place ; I 

 will send returns of provisions by 

 the next dispatch. 



This dispatch will be delivered 

 to your lordship by my aid-de- 

 camp, Captain Canning : whom I 

 beg leave to recommend to your 

 protection. He has likewise the 

 colours of the gar.ison, and tlie 

 colours of the Hesse D'Armstadt 

 regiment, to be laid at the feet of 

 his Royal Highness the Prince 

 Resent. The French battalions in 

 the garrison had no eagles. 



(Signed) Wellington. 

 Copy of a Dispatch fnim the Earl of 

 Wellitigton, dated Camp at Ba- 

 dajoz, April 8. 



My Lord, — It gives me great 

 pleasure to inform your lordship, 

 that our numerous wounded offi- 

 cers and soldiers are doing well. 



I have had great reason to be 

 satisfied with the attention paid to 

 them by Mr. M'Gregor, the in- 

 spector-general of hospitals, and 

 the medical gentlemen under his 

 direction ; and I trust that the loss 

 to the service, upon this occasion, 

 will not eventually be great. 

 I have the honour to be, &c. 



Wellington. 

 The Earl of Liverpool, Sec. 

 Return of hilled, ivounded, and 

 missing, of the army under the 

 command of his Excellency Ge- 

 neral Arthur Earl of Wellington, 

 K, B. at the Siege of Badajoz. 

 British loss from 3rd to 5th 

 April, 1812— 3 rank and file killed; 

 1 oflicer, 26 rank and file wounded. 

 British loss from 6th to 7th 

 April, 1812, — 51 officers, 40 Ser- 

 jeants, 557 rank and file killed ; 

 212 officers, 153 Serjeants, 12 

 drummers, ]^4'5 rank and file, 

 wounded ; 1 serjeant, 21 rank and 

 file. missing. 



Total Briti;^h loss— 51 officers, 

 40 lerjeantg, 



