APPENDIX TO 
ARMY OF NAPLES. 
Head-quarters of General 
Count Nugent, San Ger- 
mano, May 17, 1815. 
My Lord,—My last dispatch, 
dated from the bivouac of Arce, 
brought the details of the opera- 
tions of General Count Nugent’s 
corps up tothe-date of the 15th 
instant. 
I have now the satisfaction to 
inform your Lordship, that, since 
that period, a series of bold and 
rapid movements, on the part of 
that General, have been crowned 
with the most complete success, 
and the enemy’s army opposed 
to him defeated and totally dis- 
persed. 
On the night of the 15th, the 
advanced guard moved forward 
from the camp of Arce on the 
road towards St. Germano, hav- 
ing the enemy in front strongly 
posted on the banks of the Melfa ; 
during the night, however, he 
retreated to San Germano, break- 
ing down the bridge across that 
river. No time was lost in throw- 
ing a bridge over the Melfa, and 
at ten o’clock on the morning of 
the 16th, it was crossed by the 
infantry : the cavalry in the mean 
time having passed it where it 
was fordable for horses. 
On the same day before day- 
light, General Nugent advanced 
his whole corps to the Melfa, and 
| having there received a reinforce- 
|ment of hussars and chasseurs, 
he marched forward in order of 
| battle to attack the enemy at San 
Germano, where the united forces 
‘| of Macdonald, Manheis, and Pig- 
vatelli had taken post. A small 
corps of advance had marched 
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from Ponte Corvo to'turn the ene- 
my’s left flank, and which had 
already got behind his position, 
and the armed inhabitants. of the 
village of Piedmonte, with a few 
soldiers, possessed themselves of 
the strong position of the Convent 
of Monte Casino, upon the moun- 
tain which protects the right flank 
of San Germano: the army at the 
same time advanced upon the 
high road, preceded by the whole 
of the Tuscan cavalry, and some 
squadrons of hussars. On the 
approach of the troops, the enemy 
declined the combat, and hastily 
abandoned his position, leaving 
behind him many prisoners and 
deserters, and fell back to the 
village of Mignano, nine miles 
distant from this place ; San Ger- 
mano was in consequence imme- 
diately occupied by the allied 
troops. 
The taking of San Germano 
was but the prelude to a move- 
ment which terminated gloriously 
for this army, in the total annihi- 
lation of the enemy’s corps op- 
posed to it. 
In the position of Mignano, 
where his whole force was again 
united, he was attacked at mid- 
night by the advanced guard com- 
manded by Baron D’Aspre, with 
about 7 or 800. men, the darkness 
of the hour preventing him from 
ascertaining the strength of the 
attacking corps, theenemy’stroops 
after a few discharges of muske-~ 
try were totally routed, saving 
only his cavalry and artillery. In 
this attack, singularly successful 
and highly creditable to Baron 
D’ Aspre and the troops under his 
orders, above 1,000 prisoners have 
been made, a quantity of arms 
and military equipments taken, 
