After several other movements, the THIRTEENTH Light Dragoons were engaged in forcing the French position at _Orthes_, on the 27th of February, 1814. The right and centre of the army assembled opposite the village of Orthes, and the THIRTEENTH Dragoons, forming part of the body of troops destined to turn and attack the enemy's right, assembled near the junction of the Gave de Pau with the Gave d'Oleron. The village of St. Boës was carried; but the nature of the ground required a change to be made in the plan of the action. The narrow passage behind the village was opened, a body of troops, including the THIRTEENTH, pushed through, and spread a front beyond, and the French army was forced back with loss. Lieutenant Robert Nesbit was severely wounded; two men and two horses were killed, and six horses wounded, on this occasion. In a charge of the enemy's cavalry, which was gallantly met and repulsed by the THIRTEENTH, a personal rencontre took place between Lieutenant Doherty and the French officer who led it; the latter was cut down, and surrendered. Many of the enemy were sabred, and captured by the regiment. The commanding-officer of the regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Doherty, received a gold clasp, inscribed with the word "_Orthes_," to be attached to the riband to which his Vittoria medal was suspended. On the following day the THIRTEENTH Dragoons pursued the enemy in the direction of Mont de Marsan; and on the 2nd of March, they were engaged in a slight affair at _Ayre_. The British divisions continued to move forward, and the French were everywhere driven before the allied army. The THIRTEENTH shared with their old comrades of the "ragged brigade[8]," the gallant Fourteenth, in the advance-duties of the army, which brought them repeatedly into collision with the enemy.