Original sentence: Between them the two Spanish generals commanded about 24,000 men
Edited sentence: Between them the two Spanish generals raised about 24,000 men, many of them in poor condition.In May British ships disembarked some 5,000 former Spanish prisoners of war (largely captured in attacks on the Spanish colonial empire during the recent Anglo-Spanish War) with arms and munitions, notably 800 colonial regulars—the Colorados battalion—taken prisoner in Montevideo and, for lack of uniforms, bedecked in full redcoats.Many veteran Spanish battalions were badly mauled in the fight for the ridge; the Colorados, for instance, were destroyed as a unit