GENERAL HISTORY. 



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of Tarragona. On the 22ad his 

 lordship embarked for Sicily, and 

 the command of the army in Cata- 

 lonia remained with lieut.-general 

 Chnton, who was still posted at 

 Tarragona on October 3rd. 



The great event, as it may well 

 be called, of lord Wellington's en- 

 tering France, took place on the 

 7th of October, the day of cross- 

 ing the Bidassoa. Sir Thomas Gra- 

 ham directed a combined force of 

 English and Portuguese to cross at 

 the bridge, and attack the enemy's 

 entrenchments at Andaye, which 

 they effected with great spirit, 

 though strongly opposed, and took 

 seven pieces of cannon in the re- 

 doubts. The division of the Spa- 

 nish army under the command of 

 general Freyre crossed somewhat 

 higher in three columns at fords, 

 and was equally successful against 

 the enemy on the heights opposite. 

 Major-gen. Alten, with the hght 

 division, supported by a Spanish 

 division under Longa and Giron, 

 attacked the entrenchments and 

 posts on a mountain called la 

 Rhune, which they carried, the 

 light division taking 22 officers 

 and 400 men prisoners, with three 

 pieces of cannon. Arriving at the 

 foot of the rock on which the 

 Hermitage stands, they repeatedly 

 endeavoured to take that post by 

 storm, but without success, and it 

 was not till the next day that lord 

 Wellington directed a fresh at- 

 tack, the effect of which was, that 

 the enemy evacuated all their works 

 to defend the entrance to their 

 camp. All these operations were 

 conducted with great bravery and 

 good order ; and the loss of the 

 allies, amounting to between 15 

 and 1600 in killed, wounded, 

 and missing, may be regarded as 



moderate for the extent and im- 

 portance of the action. In the night 

 of the 12th the French attacked 

 and carried an advanced redoubt of 

 the camp of Sarre with the men 

 posted in it ; and on the following 

 morning they made an attack on 

 the advanced posts of the army of 

 Andalusia, but were easily re- 

 pulsed. At this time a considerable 

 reinforcement of recruits raised by 

 the conscription had joined the 

 enemy. 



The fall of the strong fortress of 

 Pamplona, the capital of Navarre, 

 completed the liberation of that 

 part of Spain from the French 

 arms. The garrison on Oct. 26th, 

 made proposals of capitulation to 

 Don Carlos d'Espana, the com- 

 mander before the place, but upon 

 conditions that could not be ac- 

 cepted; and on the 31st of that 

 month they surrendered on the in- 

 dispensable terms of being made 

 prisoners of war, and sent away 

 to England. The condition of be- 

 coming prisoners was at this time 

 exacted from all surrendering 

 French garrisons, from the obvious 

 policy of not suffering the dimi- 

 nished armies of France to be aug- 

 mented by the return of veteran 

 soldiers. During this siege, com- 

 mencing in the beginning of Au- 

 gust, the sorties of the garrison 

 had always been repulsed with loss, 

 and the conduct of the commander 

 and troops constantly merited ap- 

 plause. Don Carlos had received 

 a severe wound, but having report- 

 ed himself able to perform his 

 duty, he was justly suffered to reap 

 the honour of the final success. 



The surrender of Pamplona 

 having disengaged the right of the 

 allied army from the service of 

 covering the blockade, lord VVel- 



