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but sir Rowland Hill having been 

 apprised of the necessity that sir 

 Lowry Cole should retire, deemed 

 it expedient to withdraw his troops 

 likewise to Irurita ; and the enemy 

 did not advance on the following 

 day beyond the Puerto de Maya. 



Notwithstanding the enemy's 

 superiority of numbers, they ac- 

 quired but little advantage over 

 these brave troops during the seven 

 hours they were engaged. All the 

 regiments charged with the bay- 

 onet. The conduct of the 82nd 

 regiment, which moved up with 

 major-general Barnes's brigade, is 

 particularly reported. 



Lieutenant-general the hon. W. 

 Stewart was slightly wounded. 



I was not apprised of these 

 events till late in the night of the 

 25th and 26th; and I adopted 

 immediate measures to concentrate 

 the army to the right, still pro- 

 viding for the siege of San Se- 

 bastian, and for the blockade of 

 Pamplona. 



This would have been effected 

 early on the 27th, only that lieu- 

 tenant-general sir Lowry Cole and 

 lieutenant-general sir Thomas 

 Picton concurred in thinking their 

 post at Zubiri not tenable for the 

 time during which it would have 

 been necessary to wait in it. They 

 therefore retired early on the 

 27th, and took up a position to 

 cover the blockade of Pamplona, 

 having the right, consisting of the 

 3rd division, in front ofHuarte, and 

 extending to the hills beyond 

 Olaz, and the left, consisting of 

 the 4th division, major-general 

 Byng's, and brigadier-general 

 Campbell's Portuguese brigade, on 

 the heights in front of Villaiba, 

 having their left at a chapel behind 

 Soraueen, on the high road from 



Ostiz to Pamplona, and their right 

 resting upon a height which de- 

 fended the high road from Zubiri 

 and Roncesvalles. General Mu- 

 rillo's division of Spanish infantry, 

 and that part of the conde del 

 Abisbal's corps not engaged in the 

 blockade, were in reserve. From 

 the latter, the regiment of Travia, 

 and that of El Principe, were de- 

 tached to occupy part of the hill 

 on the right of the fourth division, 

 by which the road from Zubiri was 

 defended. 



The British cavalry under lieu- 

 tenant-general sir Stapleton Cot- 

 ton were placed near Huarte on 

 the right, being the only ground 

 on which it was possible to use the 

 cavalry. 



The river Lanz runs in the val- 

 ley which was on the left of the 

 allied, and on the right of the 

 French army, along the road to 

 Ostiz. Beyond this river there is 

 another range of mountains con- 

 nected with Ligasso and Marca- 

 lain, by which places it was now 

 necessary to communicate with the 

 rest of the army. 



I joined the third and fourth di- 

 vision just as they were taking up 

 their ground on the 27th : and 

 shortly afterwards the enemy form- 

 ed their army on a mountain, the 

 front of which extends from the 

 high road to Ostiz to the high road 

 to Zubiri, and they placed one di- 

 vision on their left of that road on 

 a height, and in some villages in 

 front of the third division. They 

 had here also a large body of ca- 

 valry. 



In a short time after they had 

 taken up their ground, the enemy 

 attacked the hill on the right of the 

 fourth division, which was then 

 occupied by one battalion of the 



