salamanca (july 22, 1812)
the battle in pictures
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| 13.00-13.30h. Wellington moves Packenham. | Artillery duel resolves for English guns | 14.00 h. Thomieres and Curto follow towards Miranda | whereas the British advance against them |
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| 14.30h- Curto try to stop the British but is routed | Thomieres is routed by a combined-arms attack | The British cavalry failing recall and rejecting the French | |
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| Clausel, filling the space between Maucune y Thomieres, is routed | 15.00 h The last Thomieres's brigade is expulsed from the heights | The heights are in British hands | |
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| D'Urban routs, in two rounds, the Curto's Light cavalry | Out of control, the Portuguese break against the French | The French are retreating... | |
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| 15.30h Packeham routs again Thomieres | with Arentchild finishing the work with Thomieres and Clausel (2B/2) who becames wounded (dying after 2 turns) | Meanwhile the Bradford's Portuguese are rejected | |
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| A hole appear in the French line | 16.00 h. Boyer disperses Arentchild | Le Marchant routs Curto (1B/LC) | ... but is stopped by the 2B/LC |
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| Both Curto (French) and d'Urban bounce | and both sides become disordered | A combined-arms attack evicts Brennier (2B/6) from the heights. Anson, out of control) also finishes Clausel (2B/2) | |
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| 16.30h Leith (5) fails his attack on Clausel (1B/2) after two combat turnsand is routed | 17.00h Maucune and Bonnet lauch a fulminant attack on the Allied, thus securing the French right | ||
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| Clausel (1B/2) is at last routed and only Maucune still resists in the heights | 17.30h Cole descends from Lesser Arapil and routs Gathier (1B/8) | 18.00h Alten attacs the French flank at the Great Arapil and routs them | |
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| 18.00h. The Spanish cavalry routing Maucune (2B/5)... | .... and then Frerey | the French line is broken at the angle | Like in the real battle, Marmont was wounded at 13.00 h. A free-roll transformed an elimination into a harmless shell |
| 18.30h THE BATTLE ENDS | |||
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| A general view of the French line | The French right... | .and the French left | |
| THE FINAL RESULTS | |||
| French Losses
98 inf + 8 cav + 5 art 13,320 men and 38 guns |
Allied Losses 62 inf + 16 cav 9,360 men |
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| French Victory points
(NB2) 18 removed bases+ 42 objectives 60 points |
Allied Victory points
(NB2) 44 removed bases + 5 batteries (x3) + 2 dead general (x3) + 112 objectives 177points |
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| French Victory points
(NB1) 88 dispersed/casualties figures + 101 objectives 189 points |
Allied Victory points
(NB1) 184 dispersed/casualtiesfigures + 5 batteries (x3) + 2 dead general (x2) + 288 objectives 491points |
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| Substantial ALLIED Victory | |||
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Additional comments Like in the real world, the overextended French left was routed by Packenham and the Allied cavalry. However, this last was almost fully dispersed (galloping to everything!) and the subsequent persecution of the routed French army could not be carried out. The Spanish cavalry make a brilliant (and unexpected) contribution by evicting the last French unit from the Montes de Azan Heights, and definitively breaking the angle of the French line. The French Army lose a great amount of artillery (including the Reserve 12 lbs.) and the Generals Clausel and Curto were dead in combat. |
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