CASUALTY RECORD // April 11, 1812
Battle of Villagarcia
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 136 estimated
Empire français
136
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Villagarcia was a cavalry engagement during the Peninsular War in which a British mounted force under Stapleton Cotton routed a French cavalry detachment commanded by François Antoine Lallemand. The British force of approximately 1,400 faced a French strength of around 1,100, inflicting 136 casualties on the French side. The engagement demonstrated the capacity of Wellington's cavalry arm to defeat French mounted forces in open action, contributing to British operational confidence in the Peninsular theater during the active 1812 campaign season.
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