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operations ceased for tlie day, and the 1st Corps drew off unmolested 
to its entrenched position of Chobham Redoubts. 
The encamping grounds were that day as follows :—- 
The 1st Corps at Chobham Redoubts. 
n 2nd n Wishmoor—cavalry at Sandhurst. 
n 3rd n Barrows Hill and Bisley. 
It is very doubtful whether in this day's fighting the 1st Corps could 
have ever been dislodged from the line of the canal, or that the canal 
could have been forced by an enemy numerically inferior, let alone 
been driven from one position to another; and excepting “common 
rumour," nothing as yet had been heard of the 2nd Corps being in 
co-operation with the 3rd to compel a retreat, and it would have been 
better perhaps if the appearance on Frimley Ridges of the 2nd Corps 
had been allowed to be made, before the 1st Corps was supposed to be 
driven from the strong position of the Basingstoke Canal. As it was, 
it had too much the aspect of a preconcerted field-day than a repre¬ 
sentation of real war. 
Head-Quarters Army Corps, 
Aldershot, 18th September, 1871* 
Continuation of General Sketch of Manoeuvres . 
General order. The 1st Division having on Saturday retired from the Hog’s Back, 
and occupied a new position on the Chobham Ridges, was attacked in 
it this morning and forced further back in the direction of Chobham, where it is 
supposed to be entrenched. 
The 2nd and 3rd Divisions will continue the advance to-morrow, and attack the 
1st Division in position, moving from the camping grounds not earlier than 8 a.m. 
There will be no limit to the area of operations except those laid down by the 
<c Military Manoeuvres Act,” and land interdicted by the Commissioners, as clearly 
shown in the maps which have been furnished to general officers commanding 
divisions and brigades. 
By command, 
C. R. EGERTON, 
Major-General, 
Deputy Adjutant- General. 
Sept. 19 th. The 1st Corps having fallen back the previous evening to the 
fortified position already selected, and reinforced by volunteers 
and artillery, determined to give battle to the now nearly united 2nd and 
3rd Corps, although the opportunity yet offered itself of attacking, by a 
sally from its lines, the two corps in detail. Morning broke with a slight 
affair of outposts in front of Ribs Hill and Sunningdale Railway Station; 
for the 2nd Corps, determining this time not to be out of the fight, had 
taken the initiative, and reinforced by nearly all the cavalry of the 3rd 
Corps, began to feel their way early across the main Bagshot road. The 
1st Corps reinforced their outposts on the right flank, and for a time, 
supported by their cavalry and artillery, held their own, thereby com¬ 
pelling the 2nd Corps to deploy and unmask all their forces, and drew 
them on under the fire of the entrenchments. 
Perhaps this forenoon's operations was, as a spectacle, the most 
