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superior force, will make a combined attack on the position held by the defending 
force. 
The 3rd Division will attack to its front, and the 2nd Division will endeavour to 
turn the enemy’s right by a flank movement. 
The senior officer of these divisions will regulate the advance. 
The operations of the day must not extend beyond the Puttenham and Wan- 
borough Road on the left of the position, and the Beacon Hill on the right. 
The main bodies of the 2nd and 3rd Divisions will not move from their camping 
ground till 8 a.m., nor are the outposts to be thrown beyond the positions occupied 
during the night till that hour. 
By command, 
C. B. EGERTON, 
Major-General, 
Deputy Adjutant-General. 
Sept. i6th. At daylight, the corps began to move: the 1st Corps to 
a strong position on Fox Hills, with ontposts strengthened 
upon the Hog's Back and at Tongham Railway Station. This corps had 
been reinforced by a detachment composed of odds and ends picked up 
in the camp, consisting of about 2000 men and six guns. This little force 
was directed to hold the position of Hungry Hill and Csesar's Camp, 
and so at a long distance protected the right of the 1st Corps and the 
main Farnham Frimley Road from any attempt of the cavalry of the 
2nd or 3rd' Corps, and had orders, on retiring, to blow up all the bridges 
across the canal. This flanking force were truly enfans perdus , for it 
was separated by about three miles from its main body, and would 
have had the greatest difficulty to escape at all from the grasp of the 
2nd and 3rd Corps, let alone to hold the Caesar's Camp position, which 
is' really one of no strength from the south side. 
2 nd Corps .—The 2nd Corps left its camp, and passing through Farn¬ 
ham, sending its cavalry by a wide detour to its left, stormed and 
carried the line of Caesar's Camp and Hungry Hill, and afterwards 
descended into the Long Yalley and Aldershot Camp and Common, 
until it was checked by all the Basingstoke Canal bridges being blown 
up. Owing to the wide detour, and the time necessary to repair the 
bridges, together with the want of arrangement for its earlier departure, 
this corps never took part in the affair, but received orders, in the 
evening, to encamp on Cove Common for the Sunday. 
3 rd Corps .—This corps marched early, and crossing the Wey at 
Tilford and Elstead, took up with its right brigade of infantry and a 
portion of its cavalry, the high ground by Hampton Lodge and Putten¬ 
ham Common, while the left infantry brigade and a portion of cavalry 
tried to effect a turning movement by Moor Park and Tongham; but 
owing to the bridges over the S.W. Railway being destroyed, this 
flanking force also failed to act in concert with its main body. 
That is now the position of the three corps at the moment of collision, 
in which some of you may recognise a similarity of position with that 
of the French and Austrians before the battle of Magenta, 1859; only 
that MacMahon arrived in time, and succeeded in his turning move¬ 
ment. 
