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gallant fourth division, which has 

 so frequently been distinguished in 

 this army, surpassed their former 

 good conduct. Every regiment 

 charged with the bayonet ; and 

 the 40th, the 7th, 20th, and 23rd, 

 four different times. Their offi- 

 cers set them the example, and 

 major-general Ross had two 

 horses shot under him. The Por- 

 tuguese troops likewise behaved 

 admirably ; and I had every reason 

 to be satisfied with the conduct of 

 the Spanish regiments del Principe 

 and Pravia. 



I had ordered lieutenant-ge- 

 neral sir Rowland Hill to march by 

 Lanz upon Lizasso, as soon as I 

 found that lieutenant-generals sir 

 Thomas Picton and sir Lowry Cole 

 had moved from Zubiri ; and lieu- 

 tenant-general the earl of Dal- 

 housie, from St. Esfevan, to the 

 same place, where both arrived on 

 the 28th, and the seventh division 

 came to Marcalain. 



The enemy's force which had 

 been in front of sir Rowland Hill 

 followed his march, and arrived at 

 Ostiz on the 29th. The enemy 

 thus reinforced, and occupying a 

 position in the mountains which 

 appeared little liable to attack, 

 and finding that they could make 

 no impression on our front, de- 

 termined to endeavour to turn our 

 left by an attack on sir Rowland 

 Hill's corps. 



They reinforced with one divi- 

 sion the troops which had been 

 already opposed to him, still oc- 

 cupying the same points in the 

 mountain, on which was formed 

 their principal force, but they drew 

 into their Jeft the troops which 

 occupied the heiglits opposite the 

 third division, and they had, during 

 tlie night of the 29th and 30th, 



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occupied in strength the crest of 

 the mountain on our left of the 

 Lanz, opposite to the sixth and 

 seventh divisions; thus connecting 

 their right in their position with 

 the divisions detached to attack 

 lieutenant-general sir Rowland 

 Hill. 



I, however, determined to attack 

 their position, and ordered lieu- 

 tenant-general the earl of Dal- 

 housieto possess himself of the top 

 of the mountain in his front, by 

 which the enemy's right would be 

 turned, and lieutenant-general sir 

 Thomas Picton to cross the heights 

 on which the enemy's left had 

 stood, and to turn tlieir left by the 

 road to Roncesvalles. All the ar- 

 rangements were made to attack 

 the front of the enemy's position, 

 as soon as the effect of these move- 

 ments on their flanks should begin 

 to appear. Major-general the hon. 

 Edward Pakenham, whom I had 

 sent to take the command of the 

 sixth division, major-general Pack 

 having been wounded, turned the 

 village of Sorausen, as soon as the 

 earl of Dalhousie had driven the 

 enemy from the mountain, by 

 which that flank was defended : 

 and the sixth division, and major- 

 general Byng's brigade, which 

 had relieved the fourth division on 

 the left of our position on the road 

 to Ostiz, instantly attacked and 

 carried that village. 



Lieutenant-general sir Lowry 

 Cole likewise attacked the front of 

 the enemy's main position with the 

 7th Ca5;adores, supported by the 

 11 til Porliicucse regiment, the 

 40th, and the battalion under co- 

 lonel Bingham, consisting of the 

 Queen's and 53rd regiment. All 

 these operations obliged the enemy 

 to abandon a position which is one 



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