[3] The 12,000 Imperial French soldiers under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme occupying Catalonia were beaten at the Battles of El Bruch and Gerona in June.

Though Duhesme was reinforced by another French division, the Spanish defeated him at the Second Siege of Gerona in July and August.

Saint-Cyr succeeded in this task, winning the battles of Roses, Cardedeu and Molins de Rei in December.

[7] Honoré Charles Reille's division was a mass of second-class units cobbled together from National Guards, provisional battalions, Swiss, and a "French" regiment from recently annexed Tuscany.

[20] One authority stated that Reding commanded two battalions each of the 1st Grenada, Baza, and Almeria Infantry Regiments at Cardedeu.

[21] A second historian credited the Spanish at Cardedeu with 5,000 Granadan troops under Reding and 4,000 Catalans under Vives, but did not list the individual units.

However, Milans' men were still reeling from their defeat the day before and Lazán was too slow; neither intervened at Cardedeu.