Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,073	5	3.6840	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32919	The campagne of the French King in the year 1677 In which is described exactly the three sieges and taking in of Valenciennes by assault, and of the town and citadel of Cambray, and of St. Omers, with an account of the Battel of Cassel. Licensed Sept. the 6th, 1678. Roger L'Estrange.; Campagna del re christianissimo nell' anno 1677. English.	Primi Fassola di San Maiolo, Giovan Battista Feliciano, conte, 1648-1713.	1679 (1679)	Wing C399B; ESTC R203952	44,521	161

March the Duke de Aumont Governour of Bullonois sent him a great convoy and after a little time came himself into the Camp of his Royal Highness with all sorts of munitions and with above 2000 Foot and 500 Horse of the Militia of War within his goverment Monsieur enforced the quarters of Clairmarais and Nieurlet with the Infantry and that of Tilque with the Cavalrie These succours being come Attaque of the Fort Vaches and the arrival of the Artillery made Monsieur take a resolution to assault the Fort Vaches or the Cow which secured the most feeble places of the Town This Fort is on the side of the Gate of the high Bridge which was defended with 400 Walloons On the twenty ninth they raised a Battery of four pieces of Canon to batter a ruin and to make a lodgment to sustain them there At night the same day the besieged made a very vigorous sally with a design to nail up the Canon and so overthrow their Lodgment The besieged sally Monsieur de Albert Marshal de Camp with 400 of the Regiment of Navarre conducted by his Lieutenant Collonel the Chevalier Souvray after a very obstinate dispute forced the besieged to reenter the place pursuing them even to the Counterscarp d' Albret had one horse killed under him in this Action and lost about twenty men The Besieged lost double the number both killed and wounded the most considerable prisoners were an Ayd Major and another Officer of a Walloon Regiment who were taken prisoners within twenty paces of their Counterscarp At that time Monsieur received ten Battalions and some Squadrons which the King sent him Recruits sent from the King and the second of April the King sent to them to open the Trenches His Royal Highness designed two Attaques one at Tattinghen against a corner of an horn Work the strongest place of all the Works and the other on the Fort Vaches From the fourth to the fifth at night Monsieur made the Guard be mounted for the opening the Trench by the Count du Plessis Lieutenant General The Trenches opened Guard of du Plessis Monsieur la Mette Marshal de Camp Monsieur d' Aubarede Brigadier of the Infantry with two Battalions of Navarre who were placed on the right side of the Trench and two of Frezelier or Tourain and Phiffer on the left side back'd by four Squadrons of Gournay and Vaines and at the same time the Trench was also opened at the Fort Vaches Collonel Vaine killed The Besieged did not perceive these attaques till the morning when they failed not to ply us with their Canon and to shoot into our Camp where Collonel Vaine was killed doing his duty at the head of his Squadron Marquis la Trousse hes Guard From the fifth to the sixth at night the Guard was relieved by the Marquis la Trousse Lieutenant General Stoup Marshal de Camp with the Regiments of Anjou and of the Italian Magalotti Frezelier had that morning made ready ten pieces of Canon at the quarter of Tattinghen which played with very good success and he disposed another Battery of four pieces against the Cow-Fort From the sixth to the seventh was the day of Prince de Soubise Lieutenant General Prince Soubises Guard with the Chevalier de Sourdis Marshal de Camp at the head of four Battalions The Fort taken two of the Queens Regiment and two of Vaisseaux From the seventh to the eight night Monsieur de Albert was on the Guard of the Trench till the Attaque of Tattinghen On the other side Count du Plessis with the Battalions of Navarre and Anjou and the Italian seconded by the Dauphins Dragoons invested the Cowfort on the side of the water Gate Monsieur thought good to attempt that attaque for that the fort was already in an ill Condition by the Canon and incommoded by a certain Lodgment which they had made there The Besieged who beleiv'd themselves yet in a Condition to defend it imagined that it was but a false Attacque But the Dragoons commanded by Monsieur Longevall and by the Chevalier Quevilly his Lieutenant alighted and with their Swords in their hands kill'd all that resisted and making prisoners some of the Enemy who demanded Quarter Collonel Fairfax with one of their best Officers were kill'd upon the place and Quevilly fighting was there wounded In the mean time Count du Plessis with those Battalions which we nominated assaulted the side of the high Bridge but the Cannons which were placed there opposed his passage Without this Obstacle he had put a terror into the Town by taking from them all hopes of Releif by Nieurlet and Bac and had reduced them to the same Extremity as they were in at Valenciennes in the attaque of the Crown work The Chiefs and the Generals of the low Countrys did not loose a moment in resisting the torrent of the Conquest of France The consultations of the Confederates The Prince of Orange having assembled his Infantry and Cavalry of the Hollanders in the Dutch Flanders he re-inforc'd them with the Regiments of Holstein de Orsbeck and other Hollanders which serv'd in Treves and with an Army of about 12000 horse and of forty Battalions the least of which contained 800 men he came to Anvers with the Duke of Villa Hermosa to consult with him the means of saving those Provinces from being wholly over-run and to put the Flemings out of that Consternation they were in by some considerable Action The King who was not ignorant that the forces of the Confederates were much greater than those of his Army The King sends Succours to Monsieur which he had given to Monsieur and that they might easily be able to undertake some Siege or else to cause Monsieur to raise his Siege about St. Omer to prevent all their enterprises he caused Cardonniere Commissary General of the Cavalry and Lieutenant General to leave his Camp with twenty six Squadrons with design to refresh themselves for some days in new Quarters his Majesty sending presently after them Marshall Luxemburg with two Companies of Musqueteers and nine Batalions under Tracy and gave the Marshal order to joyn all those Troops together with the Gens d' Arms which had already past to Lisle and other reinforcements to make head against the enemy and to cover Monsieurs Siege and to give time to Marquis Louvis to provide for the surety of the places on the Frontiers as Lisle Courtray and others in all which he so disposed things that they might be able to make a long defence in case they were attaqu'd On the other side Monsieur sent also for precaution one Batalion to Bergue and another to Dunkirk to put those two maritime places in a condition to defend themselves All these precautions of the French did very much thwart the Council that was held at Anvers The Confederates considered that the King being master of Cambray which Siege was very much advanced and