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and the whole of the enemy’s in- 
fantry dispersed. Deserters, in 
companies of hundreds, have 
come in, and are hourly joining 
this camp. 
This brilliant affair has con- 
cluded the operations of Count 
Nugent in this quarter, in which 
he has destroyed the army called 
the Army of the Interior, with a 
force originally very inferior to 
that of the enemy. During the 
last ten days, the Neapolitan army 
has lost at least from 6 to 7,000 
men; and the whole number of 
this army (alluding solely to the 
"army opposed to general Nugent) 
escaped from the general over- 
throw, cannot amount to more 
than 700 men. In the course of 
this General’s movements, com- 
mencing at Pistoia, he has, at dif- 
ferent periods, defeated the ene- 
my’s Generals Carascosa, Man- 
heis, Livron, Macdonald, and the 
two Pignatellis, besides others ; 
and not even the presence of Mare 
shal Murat himself, at San Ger- 
mano, on the 15th, could prevent 
the destruction of his army, and 
consequently the ruin of his au- 
thority. 
General Count Nugent’s head- 
quarters are at Mignano, from 
whence I have returned, and for- 
ward this report; and the co- 
Jumn of his right wing, which ad- 
vanced from Terracina, occupies 
Mola di Gaeta, the enemy having 
retired over the Garigliano, and 
burnt the bridge. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
(Signed ) 
C. CuurcH. 
His Excellency Lieut.-Gen. 
Lord Stewart, G. C. B. 
&c. &e. &. 
Vienna. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1815. 
ARMY OF NAPLES. 
Head- Quarters, Bivouac of Ca- 
janiello (near Calvi, ) May 
18, 1815. 
My Lord,—I had the honour 
to transmit to your Lordship a 
report, dated yesterday, with de- 
tails of the occupation of St. Ger- 
mano, and of the defeat of the 
enemy at Mignano; I have now 
to report the junction of the whole 
Austrian force, under the com- 
mand of General Baron Bianchi, 
at this camp; Cajaniello being 
the angle of the junction of the 
high roads leading from Rome, 
Aquila, and Pescara to Capua and 
Naples. The different divisions 
commanded by the Generals Nu- 
gent, Mohr, Neyperg, and D’Eck- 
art, form for the moment but one 
corps, the advanced guard of 
which, under General Stahrem- 
berg, is at Calvi. The shattered 
and wretched remains of the ene- 
my’s army, which little more than 
a month ago Marshal Murat pub- 
lished to the world as consisting 
of 80,000 combatants, is now re- 
duced to a corps perhaps not 
amounting to 8,000 effective men, 
including the detachments of in- 
valids, gendarmerie, civic guards, 
&c. drawn from Naples and the 
provinces ; with this force, broken 
in spirit, the majority of which 
detest the cause of the usurper, 
it appears that Marshal Murat 
will take post in and about Capua, 
until finally overwhelmed by the 
superb and victorious army which 
will now surround him in every 
direction. 
Having but this moment reach-/ 
ed the general head-quarters with 
General Nugent’s corps, I cannot; 
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