General Girard’s division of the fifth French corps having taken post at Caceres, Lieut.-General Rowland Hill determined to drive the enemy from thence, and on the approach of the British troops the French retired, halting at _Arroyo-del-Molinos_. On the 22nd of October, the first battalion of the NINETY-SECOND marched from Portalegre to Codesiera; on the 23rd to Albuquerque; on the 24th to the Sierra de San Pedro; on the 25th to Aliseda; on the 26th to Malpartida; on the following day to Alcuesca, and bivouacked without fires about a league from _Arroyo-del-Molinos_. During the whole of this fatiguing march, the weather was extremely severe, with constant rain. The British troops, under Lieut.-General Hill, marched about two o’clock in the morning of the 28th of October, towards _Arroyo-del-Molinos_, a village situated in a plain at the foot of a ridge of rocks rising in the form of a crescent, their approach being concealed by a thick mist with heavy rain. The French infantry were assembling outside the village to commence their march to Merida, the baggage was being loaded, and General Girard was waiting at his quarters for his horse, when suddenly the _seventy-first_ and NINETY-SECOND regiments charged into the village, capturing much baggage and many prisoners; at the same time the _twenty-eighth_ and _thirty-fourth_ regiments made a detour, supported by the _thirty-ninth_, to cut off the enemy’s retreat. The French formed two squares and commenced retreating. The NINETY-SECOND attacked, and broke one of the enemy’s squares, which was formed on the other side of the village, and thereby completed his overthrow. In this brilliant affair the enemy lost all his artillery and baggage; and several officers of rank and consideration, with about fourteen hundred men, were taken prisoners. General Brun and Colonel the Prince d’Aremberg were among the prisoners. The ninth and thirteenth light dragoons, and the second Hussars, King’s German Legion, also shared in the action. The NINETY-SECOND had Lieut.-Colonel John Cameron, Captains Donald McDonald, John McPherson, and Robert Nugent Dunbar (Brevet-Major), wounded; three rank and file were killed and seven wounded. [Illustration: Plan of the Action at ARROYO DEL MOLINOS 28^{TH} OCTOBER, 1811. _Madeley Lith. 3, Wellington St. Strand._] In the evening the battalion marched to San Pedro, and on the 29th of October proceeded to Merida; on the 31st to Montejo; on the 1st of November to Campo Mayor; on the 3rd to Arronches; and arrived at Portalegre on the 4th of November. Lieut.-General Hill, on the 7th of November, issued the following General Order:— “Portalegre, 7th November, 1811.