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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



ments, was called the army of 

 Spain, and re-formed into nine 

 divisions of infantry, forming tiie 

 right, centre, and left, under the 

 command of general Reille, comte 

 d'Erlon, and general Clauzel, as 

 lieutenant-generals, and a re- 

 serve under general Villatte ; and 

 two divisions of dragoons and one 

 of light cavalry, the two former 

 under the command of generals 

 Treillard and Tilly, and the latter 

 under the command of general 

 Pierre Soult. There was besides 

 allotted to the army a large pro- 

 portion of ariiilery, and a consider- 

 able number of guns had already 

 joined. 



The allied army was posted, as 

 I have already informed your lord- 

 ship, in the passes of the moun- 

 tains. Major-general Byng's bri- 

 gade of British infantry, and 

 general Murillo's division of Spa- 

 nish infantry, were on the right, 

 in the pass of Roncesvalles. Lieu- 

 tenant-general sir Lowry Cole was 

 posted at Viscarret, to support those 

 troops ; and lieutenant-general sir 

 Thomas Picton, with the third di- 

 vision, at Olaque, in reserve. 



Lieutenant-general sir Rowland 

 Hill occupied the valley of Bastan 

 with the remainder of the second 

 division, and the Portuguese divi- 

 sion, under the conde de Ama- 

 rante, detaching general Camp- 

 bell's Portuguese brigade to Los 

 Alduides, within the French ter- 

 ritory. The light and seventh 

 divisions occupiea the heights of 

 Santa Barbara, and the town of 

 Vera, and the Puerto de Echalar, 

 and kept the communication with 

 the valley of Bastan ; and the sixth 

 division was in reserve at San Este- 

 van. General Longa's division kept 

 the communication between the 



troops at Vera and those under 

 lieutenant-general sir Thomas 

 Graham, and Mariscal del Campo 

 Giron, on the great road. 



The conde del Abisbal blockad- 

 ed Pampeluna. 



On the 24th, marshal Soult col- 

 lected the right and left wings of 

 his array, with one division of his 

 centre, and two divisions of ca- 

 valry, at St. Jean de Pied de Port, 

 and on the 25th attacked, with 

 between thirty and forty thousand 

 men, general Byng's post at Ron- 

 cesvalles. Lieutenant-general sir 

 Lowry Cole moved up to his sup- 

 port with the fourth division, and 

 these officers were enabled to 

 maintain their post throughout the 

 day. But the enemy turned it in 

 the afternoon ; and lieutenant- 

 general sir Lowry Cole considered 

 it to be necessary to withdraw in 

 the night ; and he marched to the 

 neighbourhood of Zubiri. 



In the actions which took place 

 on this day, the 20th regiment dis- 

 tinguished themselves. 



Two divisions of the centre of 

 the enemy's army attacked sir 

 Rowland Hill's position in the 

 Puerto de Maya, at the head of 

 the valley of Bastan, in the after- 

 noon of the same day. The brunt 

 of the action fell upon major- 

 general Pringle's, and major-ge- 

 neral Walker's brigades in the 

 second division, under the com- 

 mand of lieutenant-general the 

 hon. W. Stewart. These troops 

 were at first obliged to give way ; 

 but having been supported by 

 major-general Barnes's brigade of 

 the 7th division, they regained that 

 part of their post, which was the 

 key of the whole, and would have 

 enabled them to reassurae it, if 

 circumstances had permitted it: 



