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et' the infantry could only be "exceeded by the per-
severance with which they worked.
• The artillery,' on_ thee- part, had surreitunted ex-
cessive coilimually, increasing difficoliies'
'conveying the oesieging artillery to, the lett bank.
The navigation of the river ceatiged every day; and
was eXtreinely.difficult. The of the bat-
teries was briskly opposed by a tremendoes
from the garrison, :which croehedeeety thing, pare
tieelatly do the right bank. The battery, No. 1,
within 50 toises of Fort Orleans, was ,erected
iu
Open day; and completely exposed, tinder cover of
a vigorous And contin6al tire of musketry aimed at
alie oleo-11.1e etobrasures. •
General ValC.te, .offieers_ end men, displayed
an iedelatigable zeal., The soldiers of .the eraiu,
limed as catinoneers;" a Captain of the Artillery end'
a Lieutenant cif the train, were, wounded. On the
.::eth, at day-break, forty-five guns, in tea batteries
epee both sides of the river, opened a fire, which
itt tw'o, hours acquired a decided superiority, and
soon siltneed all that .rtf the front attacked.
The bridge was cut' on the same day, and on the
next, morning was entirely broken ; in ceps quence
of which the enemy was under the necessity of era.
cuating in the oight the ate de, pont , of which we
took possession., 00 the.3oth, the castle was the
only part of the garrison from winch a tire was kept
op, and on the. n Ist
,our firebecarne" slack, as it was
, not answered. The parapets were iee'elled, the em-
brasures not in a stete' to receive guns, and two
bre il. lies were eemtnenced near fort Orleaps.
In the mean' time General Roguiat pursued his
brilliant- career, completed the descent and passage.
of ditch, and began to mine the scarp of the.
bud;' or; the place:
It was io this stile of things, that on
_the morning
,of the t st
,Jatitiary a ,A bite Rig was displayed from
the castle, and imuiedritely upon this signal, hosti.
teieine every. where ceased, the ramparts were
cave ed with a cr ,w 4 of soldiers and of 'inhabitants.
Teo officers w,tii.e }Lie oftree•e Made their appear-
aoce, end.were •cre ou, .ed to toe : they commtmi-
. eased a letter:from the Governor, who had lantho.
' rised them to make proposals to me. .The Adjutant,
COmmrandante Si, Cyr, Negues, the Chief of, my
Staff, carried toy answer to the town well the
basis of a capitulation. ,He found in the GoVer-
• nor, a Weak Man surrounded by two, or three
Chief's, who div.ded the ate!,ority between them,
and who 'demanded that tfey 3hoold be, sent to l'ar-
lagelei teein t",•eir item, diate surrender, or offered
to serrendee conditionally ~in" le 'days, if not re.
live( ci before the expiration of that tirn ; follow-
ing up toy tostrereions, he rejected every thing dd.-
facie from What. Watt conta:ned in illy, answer, ;we
elbiired th'em no longereo display the white file, it
it was itot merely 011. d Silitply 1.0 Piplilliate. U 1 on
his return !Iv :Soldiers reedised the news with joy,
atid, with loud cries demanded tlie. assault.; _I pm-
' tnised it to then) ut) tire foltosehA day.' The fire of
bombs and howitzers recbtnenenced ite the night on
• the town and castle ; the mite is celitiptied ;heir la-
beetrs. 'On the me rnieg of the 641 a new battery in
'bleach, raised with, extraordinary rapidity in the
Vcred•Way' against the counterscarn, of the ditch,
was batter ing at the distance at t e toms ; the breach
was lion, ly eirlatged. Three white flags were
die-
played -at once ; I ordered the firing tti Le,every
where redoubled. At two (Aka: every thing; wee
ready for the tiesaelt I I ordered a brigade of Gen.'
Hafispe to. be under arms iii the great line. of -the
.ireocles, and fbrmed in*.coluthn the beled cem-
panieS of theelturds of the: trendies icemount the
breach:
Flags of truce niade,their appearance a-new, but
I forbad one to. be received, except for the put-
pose of deliverieUg to our grenadiers, us the first est-
Iniinary; a gate of the town. They hesitated ; I
advanced, followed by some Genetale and other
Officers, nud I ordered the draw•britiges. to-be let
dewn.• The soldiers obeyed 'me; I entered ; I
- • made theti) lay down their aims I reproached the
Officers nod the Governor for their conduct the
• evening
.before. The faits, endelertnined and stir.
prised, tedoptea 'the part of submission. ordered
the grenadii.Js to enter, and at four the afternoon
a garrison el ,84000 eaten defiled as prisoners df sear,
, deposited nine colours, of which' one was presented
by King George lodic town of Turtosa, and imme-
diately took the road to Steragossa, under a 'strung

escort,
Aber days of siege, ,11 of trenches opened, and
cite of cannonade, we are thos masters,of the for-
tress of Tottosa, which delivers into the pewer of
the Emperor 177 pieces of artillery, 30,000 balk or-
bomb24, •400,0u0 caitridgoi, 9,000 tuusl;cts, &c.
I have the honour to transmit :o yout Highness the
different inventories, with a view rind plan of the
town and of the attacks, the jotirtral at the siege, and
the documents furnished by thit,, Chiefs, which rniiite'
`the force, of the garrison, including ,the hospitals,
amount to 9,000 men, of whom 392'. are oflicers ;
in' that .nutob, r is a number of artillery of the ma,
4rte, which was two years at Brest ;Hutt the at-,
ficers of. which Jame declared to me, •that stratohed
by the fate of arms front the anarchy which deso-
' fates their country,,they nil, form the wish of com-
batingithe English, whom they tegard, us its true
authors.
Our loss during the siege amounted to 400 men,
and that of the. enemy to i,200: Your Rigliness,
wilt co isider it Wiling when you learn .that the
fortress tiled 25,000 rounds of:cannon, and we
sOO9.
I cannot close this relation, Monseigneur, with-
out repeating to your Highness how touch 1 have
hold'rreatant to be satisfied with the distingtlished con-
, dud of the Generals of engineers and artillery, Ito-
.gtiiat
,and Valeu.

I am -with respeB,
COUNT SUCURT

licad-quyters at Tor!osa, lan 4. 1811.
TO H'l4
,SERCNE.HIGIINESS THE PRINCE OP NEIM-
CIIATRI., MAJOR•GI3NERAL OV Tti,E ARNIE, IN

Camp, befoN.Tortosa, Jan, 3, 18

NIONSVIGNEUB,
I have the honour to.transtnit to your Highness the
Journal of the siege of Tortosa. Your Highness wil
aed train it, that, in. 13 days alter 'opening the
.trenches we have reduced A very strong fortress, de.
fended .by a garrison of 9,000 mon, and 177 pieces
of cannon. Thu enemy. defended hintselt to thOslatt