The British army was put in motion at an early hour in the morning of the 10th of November, and advanced to attack the enemy in his fortified position on the _Nivelle_. In the battle which ensued, it was the proud lot of the sixth division, of which the THIRTY-SIXTH formed part, to charge and carry the enemy’s breastwork and principal redoubt on the heights of _Ainhoa_, with the loss of one drummer and five rank and file killed. The Marquis of Wellington, in his despatch of the 13th of November, thus alluded to the conduct of the THIRTY-SIXTH on this occasion:-- “I had the pleasure of seeing the sixth division under Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, after having crossed the Nivelle, and having driven in the enemy’s piquets on both banks, and having covered the passage of the Portuguese division under Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Hamilton, on its right, _make a most handsome attack upon the right of the enemy’s position behind Ainhoa, and on the right of the Nivelle, and carry all the entrenchments, and the redoubt on that flank_. Lieut.-General Sir John Hamilton, supported with the Portuguese division, the sixth division on its right, and both co-operated in the attack of the second redoubt, which was immediately carried.” In this battle the THIRTY-SIXTH had Captains Robert Blakeney and William Gillam, Lieutenants Thomas L’Estrange and William Tunstall, Ensigns James McCabe and John Skerry, one serjeant and fifty-eight rank and file, wounded. Major Cross, for his services on this day, was promoted to the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was with Brevet-Major Campbell honoured with the medal for the battle of the Nivelle. The THIRTY-SIXTH subsequently received the Royal Authority to bear the word “NIVELLE” on the regimental colour and appointments, in commemoration of the gallantry of the first battalion in that battle. After this victory the battalion was in cantonments at Usteritz, on the river _Nive_, observing the enemy,--who was in force on the opposite side,--until the 9th of December, when the passage of the river was forced, and the battle of the _Nive_ ensued. In the passage of the Nive the THIRTY-SIXTH had only three rank and file wounded.