Lieutenant Faris was engaged during the assault in a desperate hand-to-hand conflict. Two French grenadiers, observing him far in advance of his men, attacked him. One fired and immediately ran away, his bullet passing through the Lieutenant’s coat; the other then fired, wounded him slightly in the thigh, and immediately closed upon him with the bayonet, making a thrust at the body, which Lieutenant Faris parried with his sabre, but received a severe wound in the leg; a personal struggle then took place, from which Lieutenant F. at length succeeded in disengaging himself, and killed his adversary by a sabre cut on the head. By this time he was completely exhausted, and was obliged to be carried into the next house. His wounds, however, though severe, were neither of them dangerous, and he soon recovered. The loss of the EIGHTY-EIGHTH before _Ciudad Rodrigo_ was one officer, Lieutenant Beresford, and twenty rank and file killed; four Lieutenants, Flack, Armstrong, Johnston, and W. Kingsmill, two serjeants, and fifty-four rank and file wounded. Lord Wellington in his despatches notices the third division and this regiment in the following words,— “The conduct of all parts of the Third Division in these operations, which they performed with so much gallantry and exactness on the evening of the 19th in the dark, affords the strongest proofs of the abilities of Lieutenant-General Picton and Major-General Mackinnon, &c.” And again: “It is but justice to the third division, to report that the men who performed the sap belonged to the Forty-Fifth, Seventy-Fourth, and EIGHTY-EIGHTH Regiments.”