Nekuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Nevarume zviuru gumi nezvisere, Wellington akatora guta reFrench-rakasungwa reSan Sebastián pasi paBrigadier-General Louis Emmanuel Rey mushure mekukombwa kaviri kwakatora kubva musi wa7 Chikunguru kusvika 25 Chikunguru (Nepo Wellington akaenda nemauto akakwana kubata neMarshal Soult's counter-offensive, akasiya General Graham achitungamira mauto akakwana kudzivirira kubuda muguta uye chero rubatsiro rwekupinda); uye kubva musi wa22 Nyamavhuvhu kusvika 31 Nyamavhuvhu 1813. MaBritish akarasikirwa zvikuru mukati mokurwiswa. Guta racho rakapambwa ndokupiswa pasi nemaAnglo-Portuguese: ona Siege of San Sebastián. Zvichakadaro, varwi veFrance vakadzokera kuCitadel, iyo mushure mekurwiswa zvine simba gavhuna wavo akazvipa musi wa8 Gunyana, nevarwi vachifamba zuva raitevera nekukudzwa kwakazara kwemauto. Pazuva iro San Sebastián yakawa Soult akaedza kuibvisa, asi muhondo dzeVera neSan Marcial
rakadzoswa neuto reSpain reGalicia rinotungamirirwa naGeneral Manuel Freire. The Citadel yakazvipira musi wa9 Gunyana, kurasikirwa mukukombwa kwese kwaive nevanosvika zviuru zvina, maFrench zviuru zviviri. Wellington akatevera kutsunga kukanda kuruboshwe rwake mhiri kworwizi Bidassoa kusimbisa nzvimbo yake, uye kuchengetedza chiteshi chengarava cheFuenterrabia.