Editing Battle of Salamanca (section)

===Forces===
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Marshal Marmont's 50,000-man Army of Portugal contained eight infantry and two cavalry divisions, plus 78 artillery pieces. The infantry divisions were [[Maximilien Sebastien Foy]]'s 1st (4,900), [[Bertrand Clausel|Bertrand Clauzel]]'s 2nd (6,300), [[Claude François Ferey]]'s 3rd (5,400), [[Jacques Thomas Sarrut]]'s 4th (5,000), [[Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune]]'s 5th (5,000), [[Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand]]'s 6th (4,300), [[Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières]]'s 7th (4,300), and [[Jean Pierre François Bonet]]'s 8th (6,400). [[Pierre François Xavier Boyer]] led 1,500 dragoons and [[Jean-Baptiste Theodore Curto]] commanded 1,900 light cavalry. [[Louis Tirlet]] directed 3,300 artillerymen and there were also 1,300 engineers, military police and wagon drivers.

Wellington's 48,500-man army included eight infantry divisions, formed mainly by British and Portuguese units (also German and one of French royalists), and two independent brigades, five cavalry brigades and 54 cannons. The infantry divisions were [[Henry Frederick Campbell]]'s [[History of the British 1st Division between 1809–1909|1st]] (6,200), [[Edward Pakenham]]'s [[3rd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|3rd]] (5,800), [[Lowry Cole]]'s [[4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|4th]] (5,191), [[James Leith (British Army infantry officer)|James Leith]]'s [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|5th]] (6,700), [[Henry Clinton (Napoleonic Wars)|Henry Clinton]]'s [[6th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|6th]] (5,500), [[John Hope (British Army officer, born 1765)|John Hope]]'s [[7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|7th]] (5,100) and [[Charles Alten]]'s [[Light Division|Light]] (3,500). [[Carlos de España]] commanded a 3,400-man Spanish division, while [[Denis Pack]] (2,600) and [[Thomas Bradford]] (1,900) led the independent Portuguese brigades.

[[Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere|Stapleton Cotton]] supervised the cavalry brigades. These included 1,000 British heavy dragoons ([[1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)|1st Cavalry Brigade]]) led by [[John Le Marchant (British Army cavalry officer)|John Le Marchant]], 1,000 British light dragoons ([[2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)|2nd Cavalry Brigade]]) under [[George Anson (1769-1849)|George Anson]], 700 Anglo-German light horse under [[Victor Alten]], 800 King's German Legion (KGL) heavy dragoons led by [[Eberhardt Otto George von Bock]] and 500 Portuguese dragoons under [[Benjamin d'Urban]]. Hoylet Framingham commanded eight British (RHA: [[A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery|Ross]], [[I Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery|Bull]], Macdonald; RA: [[97 Battery (Lawson's Company) Royal Artillery|Lawson's]], Gardiner, Greene, Douglas, May) and one Portuguese ([[Sebastião de Arriaga|Arriaga]]) six-gun artillery batteries.