# Battle of Cardedeu order of battle

The Cardedeu order of battle lists the troops that fought in the Battle of Cardedeu (16 December 1808) and several other battles fought between June and December in the Spanish province of Catalonia during the Peninsular War. In February 1808, Imperial French forces seized Barcelona on 29 February and Sant Ferran Castle on 15 March as well as other fortresses in Spain. The Dos de Mayo Uprising broke out when the Spanish people found that Emperor Napoleon deposed the Spanish royal family and set up his brother Joseph Bonaparte as their new king. The 12,000 Imperial French soldiers under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme occupying Catalonia were beaten at the Battles of El Bruch and Gerona in June. Though Duhesme was reinforced by another French division, the Spanish defeated him at the Second Siege of Gerona in July and August. With Duhesme blockaded in Barcelona, Napoleon appointed Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr as commander of the VII Corps, added two good divisions and other troops to his force, and ordered him to relieve Barcelona. Saint-Cyr succeeded in this task, winning the battles of Roses, Cardedeu and Molins de Rei in December.

## Imperial French order of battle

On 10 October 1808, the VII Corps numbered 42,382 soldiers, of whom 4,948 men were in the hospital and 1,302 were detached. However, not all its assigned troops had joined by that date. Note that the Observation Corps became part of VII Corps when Saint-Cyr assumed command. It is probable that the corps counted over 50,000 men. Joseph Chabran's division was made up of veteran French units. The Provisional Cavalry regiments were created by assembling the depot squadrons, all conscripts, from as many as four different regiments. Honoré Charles Reille's division was a mass of second-class units cobbled together from National Guards, provisional battalions, Swiss, and a "French" regiment from recently annexed Tuscany. The Neapolitans were universally considered the worst troops in Europe. On the other hand, the divisions of Joseph Souham and Domenico Pino were composed of crack troops.
VII Corps of General Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr on 10 October 1808 :
| Corps | Division | Strength | Unit | Strength |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 2nd Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 610 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 7th Line Infantry Regiment, 1st & 2nd Battalions | 1,785 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 16th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 789 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 37th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 656 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 56th Line Infantry Regiment, 4th Battalion | 833 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 93rd Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 792 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 1st Division General of Division Joseph Chabran | Aug: 6,045 | 2nd Swiss Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 580 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 2nd Division General of Division Giuseppe Lechi | Aug: 4,596 | 2nd Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 740 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 2nd Division General of Division Giuseppe Lechi | Aug: 4,596 | 4th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 587 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 2nd Division General of Division Giuseppe Lechi | Aug: 4,596 | 5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 806 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 2nd Division General of Division Giuseppe Lechi | Aug: 4,596 | Italian Velites Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion | 519 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | 2nd Division General of Division Giuseppe Lechi | Aug: 4,596 | 1st Neapolitan Infantry Regiment, 1st & 2nd Battalions | 1,944 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade Bertrand Bessières | Aug: 825 | 3rd Provisional Cuirassier Regiment | 409 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade Bertrand Bessières | Aug: 825 | 3rd Provisional Chasseur Regiment | 416 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade François Xavier de Schwarz | Aug: 892 | Prince Royal Italian Chasseur Regiment | 504 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade François Xavier de Schwarz | Aug: 892 | Neapolitan Chasseur Regiment | 388 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Corps Artillery | Aug: 356 | Artillery & train companies | 356 |
| Observation Corps General of Division Guillaume Philibert Duhesme | Observation Corps Total | Aug: 12,714 Nov: 10,000 | | - |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 32nd Light Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | 1,100? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 16th Line Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | 840? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 56th Line Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | 840? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 113th Line Infantry Regiment, 2 battalions | 1,300 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | Perpignan Provisional Regiment, 4 battalions | 1,680 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 5th Legion of the Reserve, 1 battalion | 500 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | Chasseurs des Montagnes, 1 battalion | 560? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | Valais Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | 800 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 4 squadrons cavalry replacements | 550 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 3rd Division General of Division Honoré Charles Reille | Aug: 8,370 Nov: 5,612 | 2 artillery companies | 200 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 4th Division General of Division Joseph Souham | Nov: 7,712 | 1st Light Infantry Regiment, 3 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 4th Division General of Division Joseph Souham | Nov: 7,712 | 3rd Light Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 4th Division General of Division Joseph Souham | Nov: 7,712 | 7th Line Infantry Regiment, 2 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 4th Division General of Division Joseph Souham | Nov: 7,712 | 42nd Line Infantry Regiment, 3 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 4th Division General of Division Joseph Souham | Nov: 7,712 | 67th Line Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 1st Italian Light Infantry Regiment, 3 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 2nd Italian Light Infantry Regiment, 3 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 4th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 2 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 5th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 6th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 3 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 5th Division General of Division Domenico Pino | Nov: 8,368 | 7th Italian Line Infantry Regiment, 1 battalion | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 6th Division General of Division Louis François Jean Chabot | Nov: 1,988 | Chasseurs of the Eastern Pyrenees, 1 battalion | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 6th Division General of Division Louis François Jean Chabot | Nov: 1,988 | 2nd Neapolitan Infantry Regiment, 2 battalions | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade Jacques Fontane | Nov: 1,700 | 7th Italian Dragoon Regiment | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade Jacques Fontane | Nov: 1,700 | Royal Italian Chasseur Regiment | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | Cavalry Brigade General of Brigade Jacques Fontane | Nov: 1,700 | 24th Dragoon Regiment (not brigaded) | ? |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | VII Corps Artillery | Nov: 500 | Artillery companies | 500 |
| VII Corps General of Division Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr | Grand Total | Nov: 42,382 | | - |

## Spanish order of battle

The Royal Spanish army included three Irish regiments, including the Ultonia Infantry Regiment. There were also six Swiss regiments, among them the 1st Wimpfen and 2nd Reding senior Infantry Regiments. The Provincial Grenadiers were a militia formation. Uniquely among the provinces of Spain, Catalonia raised its own type of militia, the miquelets. This was a mass levy of military aged men that was armed and paid by the church parishes. They were sometimes called somatenes after the alarm-bell (somaten) used to alert them. The miquelets were organized into 1,000-man "tercios". Newly-raised units are labeled "Volunteers" or "new". Miquelets and militia have the Catalan flag. All others are regulars.
During the Siege of Roses, the garrison consisted of 150 men of the Ultonia Regiment, one-half of the 2nd of Barcelona Light Infantry Regiment, one company of the 1st Wimpfen Swiss Regiment, the Lerida and Igualada Tercios, and elements of the Berga and Figueras Tercios. These were later reinforced by a small battalion of the Borbon Regiment. Nearly all these troops went into captivity when the place surrendered on 5 December.
One authority stated that Reding commanded two battalions each of the 1st Grenada, Baza, and Almeria Infantry Regiments at Cardedeu. Vives led newly organized Catalan units at Cardedeu, plus seven guns, but the source did not specify which units. A second historian credited the Spanish at Cardedeu with 5,000 Granadan troops under Reding and 4,000 Catalans under Vives, but did not list the individual units. This force included 600 cavalrymen and seven field guns. During the battle, Francisco Milans del Bosch was to the east with 3,000 miquelets and Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melci, 1st marqués de Lazán was to the north with perhaps 6,000 more soldiers. However, Milans' men were still reeling from their defeat the day before and Lazán was too slow; neither intervened at Cardedeu.
Spanish Army on 5 November 1808 :
| Army | Division | Strength | Unit | Strength |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | Ultonia Infantry Regiment | 300 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | Borbon Infantry Regiment | 500 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | 2nd of Barcelona Light Infantry Regiment | 1,000 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | 1st Wimpfen Swiss Infantry Regiment | 400 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | 1st Gerona Tercio | 900 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | 2nd Gerona Tercio | 400 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | Igualada Tercio | 400 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | Cervera Tercio | 400 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | 1st Tarragona Tercio | 800 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | Figueras Tercio | 400 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Vanguard Brigadier-General Mariano Álvarez de Castro | 5,600 | San Narciso Hussar Regiment (new) | 100 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | 2nd Walloon Guards | 314 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Soria Infantry Regiment | 780 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Borbon Infantry Regiment (det.) | 151 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | 2nd of Savoia Infantry Regiment | 1,734 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | 2nd Reding senior Swiss Infantry Regiment (det.) | 270 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Tortosa Tercio | 984 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Igualada and Cervera Tercio (det.) | 245 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Sappers | 50 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Españoles Hussar Regiment, 2 squadrons | 220 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Cataluña Cazadores Cavalry (new) | 180 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 1st Division General Conde de Caldagues | 4,998 6 guns | Artillery battery | 70, 6 guns |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | Old Castile Provincial Grenadiers | 972 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | New Castile Provincial Grenadiers | 924 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | Zaragosa Volunteers | 150 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | Sappers | 30 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | Españoles Hussar Regiment | 200 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 2nd Division General Laguna | 2,360 7 guns | Artillery battery | 84, 7 guns |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 3rd Division General La Serna | 2,458 | Grenada Infantry Regiment | 961 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 3rd Division General La Serna | 2,458 | 2nd Tarragona Tercio | 922 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 3rd Division General La Serna | 2,458 | Arzu Division (new) | 325 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 3rd Division General La Serna | 2,458 | Sueltas Companies (new) | 250 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 4th Division General Francisco Milans del Bosch | 3,710 | 1st Lerida Tercio | 872 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 4th Division General Francisco Milans del Bosch | 3,710 | Vich Tercio | 976 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 4th Division General Francisco Milans del Bosch | 3,710 | Manresa Tercio | 937 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | 4th Division General Francisco Milans del Bosch | 3,710 | Valls Tercio | 925 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Spanish Guards | 60 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Grenadiers Soria Regiment | 188 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Grenadiers Wimpfen Swiss Regiment | 169 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | General's Bodyguard | 340 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Sappers | 20 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Españoles Hussar Regiment | 80 |
| Army of Catalonia Captain-General Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu | Reserve | 907 4 guns | Artillery battery | 50, 4 guns |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 1st Division | 8,200 | 2nd Reding senior Swiss Regiment | 1,000 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 1st Division | 8,200 | 1st Granada (Iliberia) Infantry Regiment (new) | 2,400 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 1st Division | 8,200 | Baza Infantry Regiment (new) | 2,400 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 1st Division | 8,200 | Almeria Infantry Regiment (new) | 2,400 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 2nd Division | 6,000 | Santa Fé Infantry Regiment (new) | 2,400 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 2nd Division | 6,000 | Antequera Infantry Regiment (new) | 1,200 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | 2nd Division | 6,000 | Loja Infantry Regiment (new) | 2,400 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | Cavalry | 670 | Granada Hussar Regiment (new) | 670 |
| Army of Granada General Theodor von Reding | Artillery | 130, 6 g. | Artillery battery | 130, 6 guns |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | 1st Aragon Volunteers | 638 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | 3rd Aragon Volunteers | 593 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | Fernando VII of Aragon Regiment (new) | 648 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | Daroca Regiment (new) | 503 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | La Reunion Regiment (new) | 1,286 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | Reserva del General Regiment (new) | 934 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | Fernando VII Cazadores Cavalry, 1 troop | 22 |
| Army of Aragon Captain-General José de Palafox y Melci Not present | 3rd Division General Luis Palafox, marqués de Lazán | 4,688 | Artillery battery | 64 |