It met another column advancing at the double, and uniting, they again rushed forward.

While they forded the river, two guns crossed by the bridge and another by a ford, and opened upon the French.

The infantry, rushing breast deep through the water, began to scale the heights.

But the French met them boldly, and after a fierce fight drove them down and across the bridge.

On their left another column had attacked the French right, and in spite of the Sardinian guns which ploughed long lanes in their ranks, crossed the aqueduct and scaled the heights.