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54 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE1813. crossed at Carabo. Early on the morning of the9th the sixth division crossed and drove theFrench back, while Hill's troops did the same atCambo, and, marching up the right bank, joinedBeresford's troops at about 1 o'clock.For the next four days the sixth division waskept in reserve, and did not take part in any ofthe hard fighting in which the casualties wereso heavy. The 91st had five men wounded atthe crossing of the Nive. The French, beingdriven back, retired within the fortifications ofBayonne. The weather now became too severeto keep troops in tents, so they were cantoned inthe houses in the environs of Bayonne, and wereemployed fortifying their positions and preparingfor the spring campaign.1814. Soult was now trusting the winter would drivethe alliesback into Spain, while Wellington wasaiming at making the French either abandonBayonne, or so reduce their force that the placemight be stormed.December and January were thus passed, butFebruary saw Wellington at work again. In thesecond week of that month he had his army onthe move, leaving the fifth division and someSpanish troops to blockade Bayonne, whose