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• MUCH ARMY OF MX NORTH 01
127iiACT OH A LETTER PROM THE GENERAL,
COVET CAFFADELLI, TO HIS EXCELLE:N
13VKlt PIE FELTRE) MINIgEtt AT WAR.
• " Burgos, ..
-¶ WrOttseiotiztrik—l had the honour to anuounceto
yonr Excellency that we were expecting, from one
moment to another,. a favourable opportunity to id-
vrince and relieve the (Ott of Burgos. .
•' On the 20tht tve made a reeoanoisance, 6f
,whieh I had the hoilonr to give you an acount.
" 'On the 2'2d, several corps of cavalry and infan...
try, among which were the 15th regiment of mount-
ed eliasseurs,` the Berg lancer!, and the gbuttiriairie
• legion, ' belSnerig .to the Army of the Ma, aS
,well as the Ist regurpent of hnizars; and Slit -•
ment of chasseurs, were placed at the extreMe ri
of the army ; the infantry of the Array of f e
re;
North had.its head at Breviesci, and its left at Pan.;
cattail the last troops of the Army of Portugal werd
but half aleigne from Breviesca. I expelled from
one instant to another, that General Sotthaaa-woukl
4eierthine to attack. the English army. ... -.
4( Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, we were
1 informed it was to full retreat. We immediately
put oirreelves in motion. About five in the eiehlOgl
an affair with the. rear.guard took place before Bist
gos, and we made some prisopers.
~!i The enemy, in raising. the siege of Burgos,
nbouldixted two six-pounders,. and 3 spiked howitzer,
0 -Yesterday evening I arrived in Burgos. I rant
On the road acourier troitireeneral Souham, charged
with roceeditig and announcing to your Excellency,
that enemy were in retreat. I did not allow my-
selffoic
stOp.him, to write to your txcelleacy, parti-
arlyto•aunounce to you the raising of the siege of
POrgos. --I would have been able to have doge this
hid his departere been retarded.
** li apPettio.that the enemy were determined upon
a retrograde movement, by the arrival of the suc-
cours of the Army df the North, and by the intcln-
geneeTheyietelred of a battM kolas befitslost by
Gerieraillill'upon the Tago's.
"•;44 I.can.hirdly describe to your Excellency all the
joy I eiperknced at again seeing die gaivison of the
fort of Burgos', and the brave General lltibretOn, who
commanded it. i have walked over the grouild revery
step *affords proof of what troops, mill directedind
animated by a good sPiriY; can do. Erie,' thing that
*IX :necessary to the defence was' foreseen, and evety
thing was employee, because the orders were given
with discernment, and .their execution pursued with
perseverance ; every one was eager to obey by duty,
bilonomr. by zeal, hz attachment and devotion' to
his Majesty. .
44 General Dubretoti,:ind the gams of-the 103,
deserve rewards ; I solicit them from yoUr ExCellenty.
The journal Which I am going to have the honour ofi
laying before you,' will' prove to you, Monseigneur,
what titles the. Officers and soldiers of the garrison
hare to the benerolenee of his Majesty. •
, This morning I expect the arrival of two divi-
' stone of infantry and artillery, and lam going to con.
tinue to support the Army of Portugal, until I know
that it qo longer wants my assistance.
6 I have the'llonour to Le,
(Signed) ." General Cotwt CAPSARELLL"
• IHTRACT PROM AY/OTHER LETTER PROM THE GENER4L-
, IN-CNIEI CAFFAttELLI, TO THE `lll/SI6IER OP.'TILE
WAR DEPARTMENT.

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" Burgos, Oct. es.
My ZARD—Your Excellency. knows that the fort
of Burgos is bililf with earth. This fort has sustain.
ed a siege of 35 'days, and if it had been attacked by
the Means prescribed by the common rules, this fort
have fallen.
44 • . The enemy have made breaches by means of
shells; and, favoured by the disorder occasioned by
explbsion pf the shells, they attempted to make
!Sift assaults.
" I can say with truth, that the defence was so
obstinate, that a part of the_pallisades of the en-
trenched camp were entirely cut by the balls, at a
foot and a half from the ground, and that it was en-
tirely through the bravery of the troops that this part,
Which was the weakest of the entrenched camp, was
pot carried by the enemy, who were lodged on the
ridge of the glacis.—l have the honour to be,
! (Signed) "The General Count CAreAttet.m."
N.B. °riles have been given by General Count
CifF.srelli to M. Piniat, Chief of a battalion, and Di.
rector of the engineers at Burgos, for the repairs of
the fort of the entrenched camp, and of Mount St.
Michael.—(Joureal (f Path, Nov. 24).
The following is an extract from a third disputa
from General-in-Chief Count Cathrelli, to the Mini-
ster of the War Department, dated Ci - ales, near
Valladolid, the 30th Oct ber
"MY Loan—l have had the honour of rendering
• your Excellency ;kn account of the raising al.:,
_Liege
of Burgos, and of the retreat_ of the English limy
frO(n, that city on the 22J 41116 arionth.
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.Thev.rtiT of rorttt,___o•al reitse.lf in motion to
,prolsoty,„w4n uot, be enlistedtl
ini,rmetl ST a. Gentlema n trout Platishing; ,spursue we andi difectied ts rdottons. From the
regtear forerat 'that Once does sot eicirird t--4veninfft the cavalry were formed in line. On the
~ Fdfi Vira'jiiew is safe on Sept. 16,iirkl 1 2:id) this cavalry, and-two other regiments which be-i
had-beea rein/01544 by G44ersi Harrisonsirtairby._-_ i long to the army'of tbettforth,ttle b t cavalry and
The Indians retreated, after destroying several build-
the dragoons of the Army of rortii al; fell in with,
ingtiiiitiide the fort: ,Qn the lath ult.lott.l.lsrriton, - he tar-Sward of the enemy near Vi adrigo. They
in the India -territ'ort, ' was .attacked 14 thd were charged .vigorously by the gm-fortune, the 14
Indians, 'Who vierit.gallantly . ritukred, vtbriiih 4 chasseure,find the lancers of Berg; never was_ak
the garrison iii•wcai in numbers
M m
ore brilliant charge made, or one ore decisive.—
mess. Captain ,
Taykr commanded the Indiana; ai4 'by sic :
The attack was dreadful, and cost the enemy' above.'
destroyed •by fire one blockhouse, in which wait' 36° men. By some inconceivable fatality, the divi-
sion of dragoons which was in line to the right of
deposited the property of the tontrattoc ; they
these corps, ind shobld have sustained them, took
drove off all the cattle, public and :private,
• itself off to Ate right at full trot and disappeared. If
which 'were outside the. Fort, 'and killed the'horses.
they had been supported by this division t4e English
The garrison was only left with grain to subsit:t on:
cavalry would have been destroyed.
The Atiseiicans had only three or four killed and
wousded. Vbe;nditattloss.was supposed to be cunt. . 41 The English atvalry which-was formed in square
il niderable,.bAt they carried' of their dead and tvoit/i: in Villadrigo, would bar ben taken ;and ale ar '
that the Marlins 4.Wiliington and the
ded. :Th. tort was' safe' September Is, when BOO' amigeat
. cavalry, and 300 infantry, were marching to its re... Prince Of Orange were within ehe square. Natwiths,
lief, and were \Atkin 54 mile; of it.—(earia God. ;‘, staVing this naisfortnne. our cavalry continued tight..
Ott. 22). ' s : ;: : • - . tug %viol .he greatest success; Joked the' two lines,'
'-' - • . - BOSTON, OCTOBER 6. . . , 114:4e soin,-; prisoners, 'and wben;they rallied and
The inhabitants of the • frontier tort in Vevrops wsrald have made a sgciiiiii.ci4arge, the enemy rents. •
arc king Ova dieinkerior, leavin ji theit hosisei, land ed it, and retired in the greatest -haste. They bad
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nelsking pi oteition,a4not4 their frig di. - . • amongst thefel. the*best (if The Engliih cavalry. - •.
'..--A family from Eclti arrixed here . a day or . two " Upon the right, [lie: Ist hussa.rs, and -the Slst
*ince; they ate in tear of the Indians, as 'thorn is no regiment cat chssaseurs, sn\anceuvred -to turn the '
American lorce.betiveen Detbrandflwknannl-about . my's left. The badness oldie road aad ground self
fp ivilts......(sampPeiteri • ' • . '' -- *.`t.'"t!' ' i allowed the rst kci, Fharie ' the 16th light dragotssip'
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