At daybreak on the morning of the 31st of July the ROYAL DRAGOONS, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel JAMES JOHNSTON, left their camp on the heights of Corbeke, and making a detour through several villages gained the left flank of the French army. Several other corps having arrived at the same point, the attack was immediately commenced, and after a sharp dispute the enemy gave way and retired upon _Warbourg_, where he was again attacked and driven across the Dymel with great loss. The ROYAL DRAGOONS encountered the French cavalry corps of royal Piedmont, and acquitted themselves with their accustomed gallantry. They afterwards charged a corps of Swiss infantry (the regiment of Planta) with distinguished bravery, broke its ranks, and after sabring many of the men took twenty-one officers and two hundred soldiers prisoners: many of the Swiss attempting to escape were drowned in the Dymel. Three troops of the ROYAL DRAGOONS formed part of the force under the Marquis of Granby, which pursued the enemy across the Dymel and halted that night on the heights of Wilda: the other three, having suffered severely in the attack on the Swiss infantry, remained at Warbourg.[50] In a general order issued on the occasion, Prince Ferdinand declared that "ALL THE BRITISH CAVALRY PERFORMED PRODIGIES OF VALOUR." The ROYAL DRAGOONS lost in this action eight men and twenty-one horses killed; and twelve men and thirteen horses wounded. The regiment was subsequently encamped on the banks of the Dymel, and on the 1st of October was despatched towards the Lower Rhine, forming part of a separate corps under the Hereditary Prince, which invested _Wesel_, a town in the duchy of Cleves. The enemy advanced in force to relieve the besieged, and encamped, on the 14th of October, behind the convent of _Campen_. Immediately after dark on the evening of the same day, the ROYAL DRAGOONS and other corps advanced towards the enemy, the Hereditary Prince designing to surprise him in the night; but it was found necessary to dislodge a corps which occupied the convent of _Campen_, and this occasioned some firing, which alarmed the French camp, and the troops were immediately formed in order of battle. The action commenced before daybreak, and a succession of attacks, repulses, and charges were kept up until nine at night, in which the ROYAL DRAGOONS took an active part, and they are reported to have "behaved extremely well." Two pieces of cannon and a pair of colours were captured; but at length the Prince perceived that it was impossible to drive the enemy out of a wood of which he had possessed himself, and, the allied infantry having expended all their ammunition, his Highness ordered a retreat.