230 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



Freyre, moved, in two columns, 

 from tlie heights of Mandale to- 

 wards Ascain, in order to take ad- 

 vantage of any movements the 

 enemy might make from the right 

 of his position towards his centre ; 

 and lieutenant-general sir John 

 Hope, with the left of the army, 

 drove in the enemy's outposts in 

 front of their entrenchments on the 

 Lower Nivelle, carrying the re- 

 doubt above Orogne, and establish- 

 ed himself on the heights imme- 

 diately opposite Sibour, in readi- 

 ness to take advantage of any 

 movement made by the enemy's 

 right. 



The attack began at daylight, 

 and lieutenant-general the hon. 

 sir Lowry Cole having obliged the 

 enemy to evacuate the redoubt on 

 their right, in the front of Sarre, 

 by a cannonade, and tiiat in front 

 of the left of the village having 

 been likewise evacuated on the ap- 

 proach of the 7th division, under 

 general Le Cor, to attack it, lieu- 

 tenant-general sir Lowry Cole 

 attacked and possessed himself of 

 the village, which was turned, on 

 its left, by the 3rd division, under 

 major-general the hon, Charles 

 CoMlle, and on its right by the re- 

 serve of Andalusia, under Don Pe- 

 dro Giron, and major-general 

 Charles baron Alten carried the 

 positions on La Petite La Rhune. 



The whole then co-operated in 

 the attack of the enemy's main po- 

 sition behind the vi'lage. The 3rd 

 and 7th divisions immediately car- 

 ried the redoubts on the left of the 

 enemy's centre, and the light di- 

 vision those on the right, while the 

 4^,h division, with the reserve of 

 Andalusia on the left, attacked 

 their positions in their centre. By 

 these attacks, the enemy were 



obliged to abandon their stronj; 

 positions, which they had fortified 

 with much care and labour ; and 

 they left in the principal redoubt 

 on the height, the 1st battalion 

 88th regiment, which immediately 

 surrendered. 



While these operations were go- 

 ing on in the centre, I had the 

 pleasure of seeing the 6th divi- 

 sion, under lieutenant-general sir 

 Henry Clinton, after having crossed 

 the Nivelle, and having driven in 

 the enemy's picquets on both 

 banks, and having covered the pas- 

 sage of the Portuguese division, 

 under lieutenant-general sir John 

 Hamilton, on its right, make a most 

 handsome attack upon the right of 

 the enemy's position behind Aji- 

 houe, and on the right of the Ni- 

 velle, and carry all the entrench- 

 ments, and the redoubt on that 

 flank. Lieut.-gen. sir John Hamil- 

 ton supported, with the Portuguese 

 division, the 6th division on its 

 right, and both co-operated in the 

 attack of the second redoubt, which 

 was immediately carried. 



Major-general Pringle's brigade 

 of the second division, under lieu- 

 tenant-general the hon. sir Wil- 

 liam Stewart, drove in the enemy's 

 picquets on the Nivelle, and in 

 front of Anhoue ; and then major- 

 general Byng's brigade of tlie se- 

 cond division carried the entrench- 

 ments and a redoubt further on the 

 enemy's left, in which attack the 

 major-general and these troops 

 distinguished themselves. Major- 

 general Morillo covered the ad- 

 vance of the whole to the heights 

 behind Anhoue, by attacking the- 

 enemj''s posts on the slopes of 

 Mondarin, and following them 

 towards Itzatce. The troops on 

 the heights behind Anhoue were, 



