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and by colonel Colborne, in these 

 attacks ; and I am particularly in- 

 debted to major-general Charles 

 Alten for the manner in which he 

 executed this service : the light 

 division took 22 officers and 400 

 men prisoners, and three pieces of 

 cannon. 



These troopys carried everything 

 before them in the most gallant 

 style, til! they arrived at the foot 

 of the rock on which the hermitage 

 stands, and they made repeated 

 attempts to take even that post by 

 storm ; but it was impossible to 

 get up, and the enemy remained 

 during the night in possession of 

 the Hermitage, and on a rock on 

 the same range of mountain with 

 the Spanish troops. Some time 

 elapsed yesterday morning before 

 the fog cleared away sufficiently to 

 enable me to reconnoitre the moun- 

 tain, which 1 found to be least in- 

 accessible by its right, and that the 

 attack of it might be connected 

 with advantage with the attack of 

 the enemy's works in front of the 

 camp of Sarre. I accordingly or- 

 dered the army of reserve to con- 

 centrate to their right ; and, as 

 soon as the concentration com- 

 menced, Marescal del Campo Don 

 Pedro Giron ordered the battalion 

 de las Ordenes to attack the ene- 

 my's post on the rock on the right 

 of the position occupied by his 

 troops, which was instantly carried 

 in the most gallant style. Those 

 troops followed up their success, 

 and carried an intrenchment on a 

 hill which protected the right of 

 the camp of Sarre, and the enemy 

 immediately evacuated aU their 

 works to defend the approaches 

 to the camp, which were taken 

 possession of by detachments 

 from the 7th division, sent by 



lieutenant-general the earl of Dal- 

 housie, through the Puerto de Es- 

 chalar, for this purpose. 



Don P. Giron then established a 

 battalion on the enemy's left, on 

 the rock of the Hermitage. It 

 was too late to proceed farther last 

 night, and the enemy withdrew 

 from their post at the Hermitage, 

 and from the camp of Sarre during 

 the night. 



It gives me singular satisfaction 

 to report the good conduct of the 

 officers and troops of the army of 

 reserve of Andalusia,as well in the 

 operations of the 7th instant, as in 

 those of yesterday. The attack 

 made by the battalion of Las Or- 

 denes, under the command of col. 

 Hore yesterday, was made in as 

 good order, and with as much 

 spirit, as any that I have seen made 

 by any troops ; and I was much 

 satisfied with the spirit and discip- 

 line of the whole of this corps. 



1 cannot applaud too highly the 

 execution of the arrangements for 

 these attacks by the Marescal del 

 Campo Don Pedro Giron, and the 

 general and staff officers under his 

 directions. I omitted to report to 

 your lordship in my dispatch of 

 the -ith inst. that upon my way to 

 Roncevalles, on the 1st inst., I di- 

 rected brigadier-general Campbell 

 to endeavour to carry off the ene- 

 my's picquets in his front, which 

 he attacked on that night, and 

 completely succeeded, with the 

 Portuguese troops under his com- 

 mand, in carrying the whole of one 

 picquet, consisting of 70 men; a 

 fortified post on the mountain of 

 Arolla was likewise stormed, and 

 the whole garrison put to the 

 sword. 



Since I addressed^ your lordship 

 last,"! have received dispatches 



