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FRENCH FORCE, 
‘ Rank and file. 
_ Division of Dupont. 8000 
Division of Wedel --:-.- - 6000 
14,000 
SPANISH FORCE. 
Reding ~.. 2... Nowe Ces 9000 
Compigny .-..-22...-22-- 5000 
enseo se ot Sone fost ee 6000 
Boner. 22. nae RS See ae §000 
rn 25,000 
Near 3000 of the French killed and wounded. 
From 1000 to 1200 of the Spaniards kille 
and wounded. , 
? TERMS OF CAPITULATION. 
~ The division of General Dupont, prisoners 
of war. 
The division of General Wedel to deliver 
ep their arms till their arrival at Cadiz, where 
they are to be embarked and sent to Roche- 
There no Jonger exists a French force in 
Andalusia. 
(Signed) S. WHiTTincHamM, 
; 13th Light Dragoons. 
N.B. The division of General Dupont is 
also to return to France by Rochefort. 
The Camp-marshal Don Theodore Re- 
ding, has sent the following account of 
the glorious battle of Baylen, under date 
of the 22d of July, to his Excellency Don 
¥. X. Castanos, Commander in Chief of 
the Army of Andalusia :— 
Most Excellent Sir, 
Subsequently to the dispatch which I had 
the honour to transmit to your Excellency, 
en the 17th instant, relative to the attack 
made by the division under my command, on 
that of General Gobert (Killed inthe action), 
“which was dislodged from all the positions it 
had occupied, as far as the vicinity of 
Bayfen, and completely defcated, and to the 
Motives which had induced me to fal] back 
on Menjibar, 1 repassed on the evening of the 
same day the river Guadalguivir, and that 
night took a position, ia which I was 
joined next morning, the 18th, by the second 
division, under the command of the Camp- 
marshal the Marquis de Compigny. We joint- 
1y broke up for that city, with a view to at- 
tack the-enemy, if he occupied it, 
Immediately on my arrival, in compliance 
with your Excellency’s orders, I disposed the 
columns of attack wih a direction to Andu- 
jar; but at three o’clogk in the morning of 
the 19th, and when out troops were forming 
for the march, General Dupont, with his ar- 
my, attacked ovr camps, and opened a fire 
with his artillery, in the hopes undoubtedly 
ef taking us by surprize; but, with the cele. 
ity of lightning, the troops of the different 
Bivisions, led on-by their intrepid chiefs, re- 
- Paired to all che points of attack, assisted by 
ry 
Surrender of General Dupont’s Army. 
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artillery; the shock was so vehement, that 
the first company of horse, and also of foot, 
suffered greatly from the enemy. At the 
break of day our troops were already in pos- 
session of the heights, which they had cccu- 
pied before, and the enemy attempted his 
attack on various parts of the line, having 
the advantage of forming hiscolumns, by the- 
superior position he occupied, under protec 
tion of his artillery, and without being ex- 
posed to our fire. 
He has been driven fram all points, and 
even pursued in defiapce of ali his vigorous 
attacks, which he reiterated without any far- 
ther interruption than what arose from occa- 
sional recession and the formation of new 
columns, until half past twelve o'clock of 
the day, when, overcome by fatigue, without 
having been able to gain ground, although he 
had at intervals broken our lihes of defence, 
with the courage peculiar to troops so accus- 
tomcd to vanquish, and even arrived at our 
batteries, which were served on.-this day ina 
manner that astonished and ‘terrified the ene- 
my, aad of which there are few parallel in- 
stances, as they not only. inftantaneously dis- 
mounted his whole artillery, but annihilated 
every column. as fast as they presented 
themselves, still protecting the points ar- 
tacked, and varying its positions according 
to the exigency of circumstances. 
The last attack was made by General Due 
pont, who, with the other generals, placed 
himself at the heaa of the columns, under 
the fire of the artillery, and was supported 
with a firmness truly admirable, but with noe 
better success; for by the account of the 
enemy, he had fourteen guns dismounted, 
two thousand men killed, and a vast number 
woundéd, among whom are General Dupont 
himself, and two other generals. 
Under such circumstances, General Dupont 
begged to capitulate. -Hostilities were accord- 
ingly suspended in both armies, and it was 
stipulated that each should maintain its re= 
spective position. The fruits of the valour 
and perseverance of the generous trooos that 
compose these two divisions, are the total 
rout of the enemy, the army of Dupont being 
made prisoners, and that of Wedel-veing sub- 
jected to the "same fale, without any other 
distinction than that of the latter receiving 
their arms at the time of their embarkation 
only, for baving taken position against mili- 
tary Jaw, during the suspension of arms cone 
ceded to him and to his commander in chief, 
The Camp-niarshal Marquis de Compigny, 
chief of the second division,. has not only, in 
concert with me in the direction of the movee- 
ments of this day, contributed to their suc- 
cesstul termination, but having selected the 
corps of which I-huve made mention, he led 
them in person ta the hotrest points of the 
three general’ actacks, and secured by his 
judgment and gallant example the said happy 
reswt, s hee 
iy Brigadier« 
