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Great and Glorious Victories DEFEAT OF SOULT, I \Y il.,4 1, ii ELLINGTON, THE ENEMY DRIVEN ENTIRELY INTO FRANCE. I Villi the Loss of Fifteen Thou- sand Mail!! London Gazette Extraordinary. WAR DEPARTMENT. Bowning-slreel, August IG, 1813. His Serene Highness (he Hereditary Prince of Orange, has asrived at this Olhoe with Dis- patches addressed to )-art Batburst, by Field Marsha! the Marquis of Wellington, of which the following are copies. Mv Lotto, San Estevan, August j, 1813, Two principal hrcadll's having- been effected at ^an Sebastian on the 24th of July, orders were given that Ihey should be attacked on the morning of the 5!!1. I an) concerned here to report, thai. this allempl to obtain possession of the place failed, and that our loss was very considerable. Marshal Souit had been ap- pointed Lieutenant de V Enrpereur and Com- mander in Chief of (he French Armies in Spain and the Soiilbeni Provinces of France, by a Uecret Imperial on the 1st of July, and lie joined and took the command oi the army on the 13th of July, which having been joined nearly ahont (lie same time by file corps which had been in Spain under the command of Gen. Clausel. and hy other reinforcements, was call ed the Army ot Spain,and re-formed into nine divisions u f infantry, lorming the centre and loll, under tbe command of Gen. Heille, Count d'Erlon, and Gen. Clausel, as Lient. Generals, and a reserve under Gen Viilatte; and two divisions of dragoons and oneoflighl cavalry, the two former under the command of Generals and Tilly, and the Jailer under the command of Gen. I'lei-i-e Sotilt.- There was besides allotted to the army a large proportion of arlilicry, and a considerable number of guns had already joined. The al- lied army was posled, as 1 have already in- formed your Lordship, in the passes (if the mountains. Mtij. Gen. Byng's brigadeof Bri- tish infantry, and Gen. Morillo's division of Spanish infantry, were on the right in the pass of Roncesvalles. Lieut. Gen. Sir Lowry Cole was posted at Viscarret, to support those troops and Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Piclon, with the third division, at Olague in reserve. Lictit. Gen. isir Rowland Hill occupied the valley of Bastan with the remainder ot the se- cond division, and the Portuguese division, under the Conde de Amarante,detaching Gen. Campbell's Portuguese brigade to Los Aldni des, within the French .territory, The liht and seventh divisions occupied the heights of Santa Barbara and the town of Vera, and the Puerto de Echalar, and kept the communica- tion with the valley of Baslan and the sixth division was in reserve at San Estevan. Gen. Longa's division kept the communication be- tween the troops at Veca and those under Lt, Gen. Sir Thomas Graham and Marisra) d. f Campo Giron, on the real road. The Conde del Abisbal blockaded Pampeluna. On fix: 24lh, Marshal Soult ■■collected the right and left wings of his army, with one division of hi* centre,and two divisions of cavalry, at St. Jean de Pied de Port, and on the 251h altacked, wilh between thirly and.forlj thousand men, J)ost It Sir Lowry Cole moved up to his support with the fourth division, and these officers were ell. abled to maintain their post throughout the day. But the enemy turned it in tbeafternoon^ and Lieut. Gen. Sir Lowry Cole considered it to be necessary to withdraw in the ni;»lit and he marched in the neighbourhood ot Zubrie. In the actions winch took place on 'his day, the 20th regiment distinguished themselves Two divisions -of the centre of the enemy"* army attacked Sir Rowland Hill's position in the Puerto de Maya, at the head of Hie valley of Bastan, in Hie afternoon of the sameday. The hront of tIle. action f."If upon Geii. Pringle's and Maj. Gen. Walker's brigades in 'he second tliv-isn n. under the command,of Lieut. Gen tbe Hon. William Stewart. These troops were af first, obliged to give way but having been xupoorted by Major Gen, Barnes's, brigade of fhe 7 'i d'visiou, they regained par! of uieir post, which was the key of v?,n whole, ai.d would have enabled them to re- iissilille it, if C'ii*cunistil)ccs I]."I] Itte(i it-- But Sir Rowland Hill havin; been apprised of the necessity lluvt SirLowry Cole should retire, deemed it expedient (o withdraw his troops likewise to irtiri a; and tne enemy did not "dvai-ce on (1st" following day beyond the Pu. erto de Mavti. Notwithstanding (he enemy's superiority of numbers, they acquired hut lit- tle advantage over these brave troops durin«- the seven hours they were engaged. All the regiments charged with the bayonet. The conduct of the S.2J regiment, which moved up with Major Gen Barnes's brigade, is panicu- larly rep or led. Lieul. Gen. the Hon. Win. Stewart was slightly wounded. I was not ap- prised of these eents lilllate in llle night of the 25lh at d 26tn j and I adopted immediate measures to concentrate the army to theright, still providing for the siege of San Sebastian, and for the blockade of Pamplona. This would have been effected early on the 27!h, only that Lieut. Gen. Sir Lowry Cole and Lt. Gen Sir Thomas Pict<m concurred in Ihinkino* their post at Zuhiri not tenable for the ) ime during which it would have been necessary to wait in it. Tney therefore retired early" on (lie 27(h, and took tip a position So co'er the blockade of Pamplona, having the right, consisting of (he 3d division, in front of Hu- arte, and extending ?u the hiiis beyond Olaz. and the left, consisting of the 4*h division, Major Gen, Byng's,and Brig. Gen. Campbell'^ Portuguese br igade, on the heights in front of Vilhlba, having their leti at a tbapd behind Soraiiseo, on the high road from Ostiz to Pam- peluna, and their ri-lit resin,t; upon a height winch defended the high road from Zubiri and Roncesvalles. Gen. h ori II '5 dIvision t.f:,pa- a(i(i that pari of the Conde del Abisbal's corps not, engaged in the blockade were in reserve. From the latter, the regi- ment of Travia, and that oi El Principe, were detached to occupy part ot the hil! on the right of the fourth division, by wbieIJ theroad from Zubiri was defended. The British cai airy under Lieut. Gen. Sir Staplcton Cotton were placed near Hunrte on the right, being the only ground oil which it was possible to use (he cavalry. The river Lanz runs iu Hie valley which was on the test of the allied, and on the right of (he French arm}, along lite road to Ostiz. Beyond this river there is another range of mounlains connected with Ligasso & Mar- calain, by which places it-was now necessary to communicate with the rest of the army. I joined the third and fourth divisions just as they were taking up their ground on Hie 271 h, and shortly afterwards theenemy formed then- army on a mountain, the front of which extends from the high road to Osiix to the high road to Zubiri, and they placed one divi- sion on their left of (hat road on a height, and in some villages in froni of the ihird division. They had here also a large budy of cavalry, III a short time after thev had taken up their ground, the enemy attacked the hill on the right of I he fourth division, wlilct) was tlieii occupied by one battalion of the 41 h Portu- guese regiment, and by the Spanish regiment, of Pravia. These troops defended their ground, and drove the enemy from it with the bayo- net. Seeing the importance of this hill to our position, I Z. reinforced it with the 40th regi- ment and this regiment wilh the Spanish re- giments of El Principe and Pravia held it from this lime, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of Ihe enemy during Ihe 27111 and 28th to ob- tain possessession of it. Nearly at the same time that the enemy attacked this height on the 27th they took possession of the village of S01 anseu on the road to Osiiz, by which they acquired (he communication by that road, and Ihey kept lip a fire of mnslietry along the line lill il was dark. We were joined on the morn- ing of the 28th by the sixth division of infan- try, and I directed that the heights should he occupied on the left of the valle offhe Lanz and that the sixth division should form across the valley in rear of the left of the fourth (II- visioii, their right (jn Oi-icaiii, aiid tljeii- left upon Ihe heighls above-mentioned. The sixth division had scarcely taken Iheirgjcss- (ion when they were attacked by a very 1:,sgG force of the enemy, which had been assem- filed in the of Soraiiset). Their front was, however, so well defended by the fire of their own Tight troops from the heights on their left, and by the fire from the heighls occupied by the fourth division and Brig Gen. Campbell's t'orfuguese brigade, that theene- my were soon driven back with immense loss, from a fire on (heir front, both flanks and rear. In order to exlricate their troops from the difficulty ill which they found themselves in (heir situation in Ihe valley of (he Lanz, the enemy now attacked the height on which the left of the fourth division stood, which was occupied by the seventh Cacadores, of which they ohlallled a momentary possession. They were attacked, however, ugall hy (lie seventh Cacadores, supported by Major Gen.r Ross, at the head of his brigade of the fourth division, and were driven down with great loss. The battle now became general along the whole front of the heights occupied by the 4th division, and in every part in our favour, excepting where one battalion of the 11th Portuguese regiment of Maj. Gen. Camp- bell's brigade was posted.—This battalion hnv-

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