gh a rugged country,
completely turned their position on the Ebro, and drove them back upon
Vittoria, after a successful engagement at Osma. Lord Wellington still
pursued them; and on the 21st of June he gained a complete victory
over them on the plains of Vittoria. In this battle the enemy lost one
hundred and fifty-one pieces of cannon, four hundred and fifteen waggons
of ammunition, all their baggage, provisions, and treasures, with the
French commander's, Jourdan's, baton of a marshal of France. Their loss
in killed and wounded, according to their own statement, amounted to
eight thousand men; while the total loss of the allies was seven
hundred and forty killed, and four thousand one hundred and seventy-four
wounded. The French army was, indeed, reduced to a total wreck; and they
saved themselves from utter destruction only by abandoning the whole
_materiel_ of the army, and running away from the field of battle like
an undisciplined mob. About one thousand were taken prisoners in their
flight; but, lightened of their usual burdens, they ran with so much
alacrity that it was generally impossible to overtake them. The spoils
of the field also occupied and detained the troops of Wellington,
they thinking more of the money and the wine than the flying foe. Lord
Wellington, however, continued the pursuit; and on the 25th took the
enemy's only remaining gun. This victory was complete; and the battle of
Vittoria was celebrated in England by illuminations and fetes; while
the Cortes, by an unanimous vote, decreed a territorial property to Lord
Wellington, in testimony of the gratitude of the Spanish nation.

When the battle of Vittoria was fought General Clausel, with about
14,000 men, had commenced his march to support Joseph; but now changing
his direction, he turned towards Logrono, and then to Saragossa, with
the guerilla forces of Mina and Sau-chez hanging on his rear. As for
Joseph he scarcely looked back before he reached the walls of Pamplona
in Navarre. Joseph was admitted into its walls; but the fugitives from
Vittoria were refused an entrance; and when they attempted to scale the
walls they were fired upon by their own countrymen, as if they had been
mortal foes; and they were compelled to continue their flight across the
Pyrenees towards France. Subsequently General Clausel retreated by the
central Pyrenees into France; and General Foy likewise, who was with
another division of the French army at Bilboa, fell b