The enemy having failed in all his attacks, with his whole force, on the British left, withdrew into his entrenchments on the night of the 12th of December, and passed a large force through Bayonne, with which, on the morning of the 13th, he made a most desperate attack on the troops under Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill; the Marquis of Wellington, in expectation of this attack, had given orders that the Lieut.-General should be reinforced with the sixth division, which crossed the Nive at daylight on that morning. The THIRTY-SIXTH were accordingly in position at _Bidart_, but Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill defeated the enemy with the troops under his own immediate command on the 13th of December, with immense loss, before the arrival of the reinforcement, although the march of the sixth division afforded him great facility in making his movements. In commemoration of the operations connected with the passage of the river _Nive_, the THIRTY-SIXTH subsequently received the Royal Authority to bear the word “NIVE” on the regimental colour and appointments. On the 14th of December the THIRTY-SIXTH occupied cantonments at Ville Franque, and commenced the severe duty of the blockade of _Bayonne_. [Sidenote: 1814.] The battalion was employed on this duty until the 21st of February 1814, on which day the army advanced, the THIRTY-SIXTH being selected by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., for the important duty of protecting the artillery of the division from an apprehended attack upon it by the enemy’s garrison of St. Jean Pied de Port, which the dreadful state of the roads obliged it nearly to pass. This obstacle fortunately surmounted, by forced marches the THIRTY-SIXTH rejoined the army on the 26th of February, and shared in the battle of _Orthes_ on the following day.