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by these operations, under the 

 direction of lieutenant-general sir 

 Rowland Hill, forced to retire to- 

 wards the bridge of Carabo, on the 

 Nive, with the exception of the 

 division in Mondarin, which, by 

 the march of a part of the 2nd di- 

 vision, under lieutenant-general 

 the hon. sir William Stewart, was 

 pushed into the mountains towards 

 Baygory. 



As soon as the heights were car- 

 ried on both banks of the Nivelle, 

 I directed the 3rd and 7th divisions, 

 being the right of our centre, to 

 move by the left of that river upon 

 St. Pe, and the 6th division by the 

 right of that river, on the same 

 place, while the 4 th and light divi- 

 sions, and general Giron's reserve, 

 held the heights above Ascain, and 

 covered this movement on that side, 

 and lieutenant-general sir Row- 

 land Hill, covered it on the other. 

 A part of the enemy's troops had 

 retired from their centre, and had 

 crossed the Nivelle at St. Pe ; and, 

 as soon as the 6th division ap- 

 proached, the 3rd division, under 

 major-general the hon. Charles 

 Colville, and the 7th division, un- 

 der general Le Cor, crossed that 

 river and attacked, and imme- 

 diately gained possession of the 

 heights beyond it. 



We were thus established in the 

 rear of the enemy's right ; but so 

 much of the day was now spent, 

 that it was impossible to make 

 any farther movement : and I was 

 obliged to defer our further opera- 

 tions till the following morning. 



The enemy evacuated Ascain in 

 the afternoon, of which village 

 lieutenant-general Don Manuel 

 Prcyre took possession ; and quitted 

 all their works and positions in 

 front of St. Jean de Lwz during 



the night, and retired upon Bldart, 

 destroying all the bridges on the 

 Lower Nivelle. Lieutenant-gene- 

 ral the hon. sir John Hope fol- 

 lowed them with the left of the 

 army, as soon as he could cross 

 the river; and marshal sir Wil- 

 liam Beresford moved the centre 

 of the army as far as the state of 

 the roads, after a violent fall of 

 rain, would allow ; and the enemy 

 retired again on the night of the 

 llth. into an entrenched camp in 

 front of Bayonne. 



In the course of the operations 

 of which I have given your lord- 

 ship an outline, in which we have 

 driven the enemy from positions 

 which they had been fortifying 

 with great labour and care for 

 three months, in which we have 

 taken fifty-one pieces of cannon, 

 six tumbrils of ammunition, and 

 fourteen hundred prisoners, I have 

 great satisfaction in reporting the 

 good conduct of all the officers and 

 troops. The report itself will show 

 how much reason I had to be satis- 

 fied with the conduct of marshal 

 sir William Beresford, and of 

 lieutenant-general sir Rowland 

 Hill, who directed the attack of the 

 centre and right of the army ; and 

 with that of lieutenant-generals 

 the hon. sir G. L. Cole ; the hon. 

 sir William Stewart, sir John Ha- 

 milton, and sir Henry Clinton ; 

 and major-generals the hon. C. 

 Colville, Charles baron Alten, 

 mariscal de Campo P. Lc Cor, and 

 mariscal de Campo Don Pablo 

 Murillo, commanding divisions of 

 infantry; and with that of Don 

 Pedro Giron, commanding the re- 

 serve of Andalusia. 



Lieutenant-general sir Rowland 

 Hill, and marshal sir William 

 Beresford, and these general offl- 



