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moved up the heights from 

 Hormaza ; and the remainder 

 of the troops, under the command 

 of lieutenant-general sir Row- 

 land Hill, threatened the heights 

 of Estepar. These movements dis- 

 lodged the enemy from their po- 

 sition immediately. The cavalry 

 of our left and centre were entirely 

 in the rear of the enemy, who 

 were obliged to retire across the 

 Arlanzon, by the high road to- 

 wards Burgos. Although pressed 

 by our cavalry, and suftering con- 

 siderable loss by the fire of major 

 Gardiner's troop of horse artillery, 

 and obliged to make their move- 

 ments at an accelerated pace, that 

 they might not give time to our 

 infantry to come up, they made 

 it in admirable order : but they 

 lost one gun, and some prisoners, 

 taken by a squadron of the 14th 

 light dragoons, commanded by 

 captain Milles, and a detachment 

 of the 3rd dragoons, which charged 

 their rear. 



The enemy took post on the left 

 of the Arlanzon and Urbel rivers, 

 which were much swelled by the 

 rains; and in the course of the 

 night retired their whole army 

 through Burgos, having abandoned 

 and destroyed, so far as they were 

 able, in the short space of time 

 during which they were there, the 

 works of the castle, which they 

 had constructed and improved at 

 iBo large an expense ; and they are 

 now on their retreat towards the 

 'Ebro by the high road of Briviesca 

 and Miranda. In the mean time 

 the whole of the army of the allies 

 has made a movement to the left 

 this day ; and the Spanish corps 

 of Gallicia, under general Giron, 

 and the left of the British and Por- 

 tugucM army, under lieut;.-gen. 



Graham, will, I hope, pass the 

 Ebro to-morrow. 



In the course of the 9th, 10th, 

 and Uth, Don Julian Sanchez was 

 very active on the left of the ene- 

 my, and took several prisoners. 



I have received a letter from ge-» 

 neral Elio, in which he informs me 

 that the third Spanish army had 

 joined the second, and these armies 

 had taken the positions before oc- 

 cupied by the 2nd army, and the 

 Anglo Sicilian corps, under sir 

 John Murray; and that gen. sir 

 John Murray had embarked, in 

 obedience to the orders which he 

 had received, with the troops un- 

 der his command, had sailed from 

 Alicant with a fair wind, and was 

 out of sight on the 1st inst. 

 I have the honour to be, &c. 



Wellington. 

 The Earl Bathurst, &c. 



Subijana, on the Bayasi 

 June 19, 1813. 



My lord ;~The left of the army 

 crossed the Ebro on the Hth, by 

 the bridges of St. Martin, and Ro- 

 camunde, and the remainder on 

 the i5th, by those bridges and that 

 of Puenta Arenas. We continued 

 our march on the following days 

 towards Vittoria. 



The enemy assembled on the 

 16th and 17th, a considerable corps 

 at Espejo, not far from the Fuente 

 Carra, composed of some of the 

 troops which had been for some 

 time in the provinces in pursuit of 

 Longa and Mina, and others de- 

 tached from the main body of the 

 army, which were still at Pancorbo. 

 They had likewise a division of 

 infantry, and some cavalry at Frias 

 since the 16th, for the purpose of 

 observing our raoveraents on the 

 left of the Ebro. 



