Thus ended the fatal 5th of July, 1807, the first and only occasion on which the EIGHTY-EIGHTH sustained a defeat. They had the consolation, however, of knowing, that all that men _could_ do they _had_ done, and of reflecting on many individual acts of devoted bravery highly honourable to the corps. Lieutenant Robert Nickle (late Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-Sixth) led the advance of Brigadier-General Craufurd’s division column into the town, and fell, dangerously wounded, after having given repeated proofs of cool intrepidity united with the most daring courage. Lieutenant William Mackie (now Major, and late Captain, in the Ninety-Fourth Regiment) was severely wounded in the thigh, but, although fainting from loss of blood, continued at the head of his men, until a second bullet struck him across the spine, and stretched him, to all appearance, dead upon the ground; contrary to every expectation, however, though to the unfeigned delight of his comrades in arms, he survived, to gather fresh laurels in the Peninsula. Lieutenant George Bury also distinguished himself by vanquishing, in single combat, a Spanish officer of grenadiers. Serjeant-Major William Bone, for his gallant conduct on the same occasion, was recommended by Lieutenant-Colonel Duff for an ensigncy, to which he was promoted, and died a Captain in the Royal African regiment. When the regiment was ordered for embarkation, Captain Oates, who was doing duty with the first, though in fact belonging to the second battalion, volunteered and received the permission of his Royal Highness the Duke of York to accompany the regiment; being a supernumerary he was attached to the Thirty-Eighth, a company of which he commanded in the attack on the Plaza de Toros. Some of the other divisions of the army had met with less opposition than this regiment; the _Plaza de Toros_, a strong post on the enemy’s right, and the _Residencia_, a good post on their left, were taken; at the same time part of the army had gained an advanced position opposite the enemy’s centre; but these advantages had cost two thousand five hundred men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The loss of the EIGHTY-EIGHTH on this occasion amounted to twenty officers, and two hundred and twenty non-commissioned officers and privates killed and wounded. _Officers killed._ Lieutenant Thompson ” Hale Ensign M‘Gregor Assist. Surgeon Ferguson _Wounded._ Major Iremonger Captain M‘Pherson ” Dunne ” Chisholme ” Seton ” Peshall Lieut. Adair ” R. Nickle ” Graydon ” Whittle ” Stewart ” Buller ” Bury ” Mackie ” Gregg Adj. Robertson On the following morning Lieutenant-General Whitelocke consented, at the instance of the Spanish commander, to desist from further hostilities, and to evacuate the place, on condition of having the captured regiments released.