CASUALTY RECORD // July 4, 1806
Battle of Maida
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
2 sides catalogued · combined 2,409 estimated
Empire français
2,082
Medium-confidence figure
Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande
327
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Maida was a British expeditionary victory in Calabria over a French force under Jean Reynier. Stuart's force of roughly 5,236 troops inflicted over 2,000 French casualties while sustaining fewer than 330 of their own, a disparity that demonstrated the tactical superiority of the British formation on the day. Although the engagement took place in the broader context of the War of the Third Coalition, it represented one of the few instances in that period where British land forces met French troops in open battle and prevailed decisively on the continent. The lopsided casualty ratio gave the engagement an outsized place in British military memory relative to its immediate strategic consequences.
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