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boen, to cut off my communicalion 

 with Salamanca and Ciudad Ro- 

 drigo. 



The Enemy abandoned and de- 

 stroyed the fort of Mirabete, on 

 tlie Tagus, on the 11th instant; 

 and the garrison marched to Ma- 

 drid, to form part of the army of the 

 center. They were reduced to five 

 days provision. 



I inclose a return of the killed 

 and wounded on the 18th inst. 



Flores de Avila, July 24. 



My aid-de-camp, Captain Lord 

 Clinton, will present to your lord- 

 ship this account of a victory 

 which the allied troops under my 

 command gained in a general action 

 fought near Salamanca on the even- 

 ing of the 22nd inst., which I have 

 been under the necessity of delaying 

 to send till now, having been engag- 

 ed ever since the action in the pur- 

 suit of the enemy's flying troops. 



In my letter of the 21st I in- 

 formed your lordship, that both ar- 

 mies were near the Tormes ; and 

 the enemy crossed that river with 

 the greatest part of his troops in 

 the afternoon by the fords between 

 Alba de Tormes and Huerta, and 

 moved by their left towards the 

 roads leading to Ciudad Rodrigo. 



The allied army, with the ex- 

 ception of the third division, and 

 General D'Urban's cavalry, like- 

 wise crossed the Tormes in the 

 evening by the bridge of Sala- 

 manca, and the fords in the neigh- 

 bourhood ; and I placed the troops 

 in a position of which the right was 

 upon one of the two heights called 

 Des Arapiles, and the left on the 

 Tormes below the ford of Santa 

 Martha. 



The third division and Brigadier- 

 General D'Urban's cavalry were 



left at Cabrerizes, on the right of 

 the Tormes, as the enemy had still 

 a large corps on the heights above 

 Babilafuente, on the same side of 

 the river ; and 1 considered it not 

 improbable, that finding our army 

 prepared for them in the morning, 

 on the left of the Tormes, they 

 would alter their plan and ma- 

 noeuvre by the other bank. 



In the course of the night of 

 the 21st, I received intelligence, of 

 the truth of which I could not 

 doubt, that General Chauvel had 

 arrived at Polios on the 20th, with 

 the cavalry and horse artillery of 

 the army of the north, to join Mar- 

 shal Marmont ; and I was quite 

 certain that these troops would 

 join him on the 22nd or 23rd at the 

 latest. 



During the night of the 21st, 

 the enemy had taken possession of 

 the village of Calvarasa de Ariba 

 and of the height near it, called 

 Nuestra Senora de la Pena, our ca- 

 valry being in possession of Calva- 

 rassa de Abaxo ; and shortly after 

 daylight detachments from both 

 armies attempted to obtain pos- 

 session of the more distant from 

 our right of the two hills called 

 Dos Arapiles. 



The enemy, however, succeed- 

 ed ; their detachment being the 

 strongest, and having been con- 

 cealed in the woods nearer the hill 

 than we were, by which success 

 they strengthened materially their 

 own position, and had in their 

 power increased means of annoy- 

 ing our's. 



In the morning, the light troops 

 of the 7th division, and the 4th 

 Ca^adorcs belonging to General 

 Pack's brigade, were engaged witli 

 the enemy on the hoi^'ht called 

 Nuestra Senora dc la Pcna ; on 



which 



