Anglo-Portuguese Army

Summary of the Anglo Portuguese Army

Wellington is both the CinC of all allied troops in Spain, and the CinC of his own Anglo-Portguese Army.

Although Wellington’s historical army were organised as divisions, I have used corps to keep a standard form of chain of command throughout all armies in the campaign.

Each corps has four infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade and one artillery battery.

I wanted each army to have a mix of good and bad points. This was difficult to achieve with the British, who historically has good morale, good firepower and good skirmish ability. But to give them all these advantages would make them “supermen” and very difficult to beat on the wargames table.

So the fourth infantry brigade in each corps, the Portuguese, are all shown as poor morale, poor firepower and poor skirmish ability.

In addition one of the British infantry brigades are shown as poor morale/training.

All of the cavalry are shown as poor. This is a little unfair, but it does mean that there is a serious weakeness in each corps.

Finally all artillery are shown as 6 pounders. This means that the French artillery will always have a longer range as they are all 12 or 9 pounders.

CinC - The Duke of Wellington (Gifted)

Wellington and his corps commanders

1 Corps – General Hill (Average)

1 Infantry Brigade CA FA SB

2 Infantry Brigade CB FB SB

3 Infantry Brigade CB FB SB

4 Infantry Brigade CC FC SC

1 Cavalry Brigade CC Light

1 Foot Artillery CB 6 pounder

1st British corps

2 Corps – General Cole (Average)

5 Infantry Brigade CA FA SB

6 Infantry Brigade CB FB SB

7 Infantry Brigade CC FB SB

8 Infantry Brigade CC FC SC

2 Cavalry Brigade CC Medium

Corps Artillery CB 6 pounder

2nd British corps

3 Corps – General Picton (Average)

9 Infantry Brigade CA FA SB

10 Infantry Brigade CB FB SB

11 Infantry Brigade CC FB SB

12 Infantry Brigade CC FC SC

3 Cavalry Brigade CC Medium

Corps Artillery CB 6 pounder

3rd British corps

4 Corps - General Alten (Average)

13 Infantry Brigade CA FB SA

14 Infantry Brigade CB FB SA

15 Infantry Brigade CC FB SB

16 Infantry Brigade CC FC SC

4 Cavalry Brigade CC Light

Corps Artillery CB 6 pounder

4th British corps