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Campo Mayor was a controversial action, Oman, good historian though he usually was, took only the Beresford side of the argument into consideration when writing about it. I have introduced some material highlighting the controversy and some information from the Long/Napier side. Many accounts dwell on the overlong pursuit made by the 13th LD and completely ignore that startling fact that only two and a half squadrons of British cavalry routed six French squadrons (actually 5 French squadrons and 1 Spanish squadron from a "juramentado", quisling, unit). I did a lot of research on this cavalry clash for a magazine article I wrote some time ago. Urselius ( talk) 09:13, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering out of the 2400 Frenchmen participating in this combat, how many of them were cavalrymen? Secondly, what went wrong for the French here? Because the odds seemed stacked against the allies. -- Guard Chasseur 20:00, 11 May 2010.
There's one question that's puzzling me. The Anglo-Portuguese drove the French back after initial progress, but then were met with heavy fire from Badajoz and, following a sortie of cavalry, were driven back in turn. The cannons were recaptured. Shouldn't this be a French victory???? -- Guard Chasseur ( talk) 16:50, 11 May 2010.
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Campo Mayor was a controversial action, Oman, good historian though he usually was, took only the Beresford side of the argument into consideration when writing about it. I have introduced some material highlighting the controversy and some information from the Long/Napier side. Many accounts dwell on the overlong pursuit made by the 13th LD and completely ignore that startling fact that only two and a half squadrons of British cavalry routed six French squadrons (actually 5 French squadrons and 1 Spanish squadron from a "juramentado", quisling, unit). I did a lot of research on this cavalry clash for a magazine article I wrote some time ago. Urselius ( talk) 09:13, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering out of the 2400 Frenchmen participating in this combat, how many of them were cavalrymen? Secondly, what went wrong for the French here? Because the odds seemed stacked against the allies. -- Guard Chasseur 20:00, 11 May 2010.
There's one question that's puzzling me. The Anglo-Portuguese drove the French back after initial progress, but then were met with heavy fire from Badajoz and, following a sortie of cavalry, were driven back in turn. The cannons were recaptured. Shouldn't this be a French victory???? -- Guard Chasseur ( talk) 16:50, 11 May 2010.