Intelligence of it sent on that side 200 Foot convoy'd with 300 Horse to endeavour to enter the Castle but the Convoy was beaten and the 200 Men obliged to return Upon this News he with speed march'd his Cavalry which consisted of 8000 Germans and 2000 Poles Commanded by Lubomirski and put 200 into the Castle The Burghers surpriz'd to see an Imperial Army surrender'd almost as soon as they were Summon'd and hardly gave the Malecontents time to retire to their Camp which was not far from the Town Tekeli incens'd at this Affront which they had now done sent a Detachment of his Army to fall upon the Enemy which at first made no movement because it was not yet rang'd in Battel But as they soon as it was who apparently had imagin'd that they should find no more than a Party of Imperial Horse believing them sufficiently employ'd in opposing the Incursions of the Tartars were surpriz'd to see the whole Army march towards them and since theirs was inferiour in number they soon after thought of retiring They did it in very good order but being warmly charg'd by the Imperialists they began to fly as fast as they could some to Tirnaw and others to a River two Miles distant on the other side of which they made a stand and stopt the Enemy who did not think it worth their while to pursue them farther This Action was towards Evening and in the Night Tekeli who was encamp'd at some distance from thence thought that he ought to dislodge against the opinion of the Turks who were encamp'd by themselves near him the Reason which he gave was That it was of Importance to rally them who had newly been defeated and dangerous to expose affrighted Troops to a Victorious Army Thereupon the Turks divided from him and would not rejoyn him but by express Order from the Grand Vizier This mixture of Christian and Mahumetan Troops commanded by different Heads produces no good The Heads would often be of different Sentiments 〈…〉 â—â—uld one yield to the other and the Turks would have the Christians undergo all the hazard when there was any as the Christians sought for nothing but advantaging themselves at the expence of the Turks Their Design had been to seize the Castle of Presburg that they might have a Passage there over the Danube that they might easily maintain a Communication with one another For that end the Turkish Cavalry which was not employ'd at the Siege ought to have search'd out that of the Imperialists and have constrained them to withdraw into Germany which had not been difficult for any other People besides the Turks to have done The Duke of Lorrain being drawn nearer to Vienna that he might incommode the Besiegers as much as he could possibly the Malecontents provided for the Turks divers Boats by means of which they might have some Communication with them and at the same time might enter into Moravia from whence they might draw considerable Contributions and part of which they might ravage nor could the Imperialists be able to hinder them These last in truth march'd against the Malecontents to take from them what they had gotten and having come up to them Charg'd them with vigour enough but 300 Horse who came to their Assistance sav'd the Booty which they had taken The Imperialists took the way of Tuln and Krembs to receive the Auxiliary Troops who came from all Parts of Germany and Poland as fast as they could possibly But having received advice that the Tartars and Turks followed by Tekeli were entered into Moravia they were oblig'd to turn on that side In the end the Grand Vizier having known that the Succours advanc'd and that the Imperial Horse march'd to joyn them gave Orders to the Tartars and Male-contents to make waste in the Hereditary Countrey as far as they could either to oblige the Duke of Lorrain to return that way or to take from the Succours all means of subsisting when they should arrive From the 23d of August the Tartars had enter'd Moravia and had begun to make the Country in such a manner desolate that it could not recover in a long time for the Male-contents they were contented to keep encamp'd near Mark and to promise the Tartars to follow them In the mean while they did not advance at all and it seem'd as if Tekeli as much fear'd the Success of the Siege of Vienna and the Consequences which the taking of that Place might have as he had before fear'd the Victories of the Emperor In truth were it supposed that the Turks had made themselves Masters of all Hungary and of part of the Hereditary Countries of the House of Austria they would have had no more need of Teckely and perhaps might treat him with as much contempt as they had lately paid him honours while he was necessary to them On the other side if the Turks should fail in the Siege of Vienna the Emperor would be more formidable than ever because ordinarily the Turks who are insupportable with good Fortune have little courage under bad Teckely made these reflections or had some other reason for acting less vigorously than ordinarily and did not manage his Forces without cause The Duke of Lorrain having made Detatchment to discover the condiion of the Enemy followed immediately after with all his Horse The Tartars and Turks seeing the Imperialists come up put themselves into a posture to receive them and fell upon them so briskly that at the first they routed some Squadrons and some pierced even to the Body of Reserve but not being sufficiently sustained the greatest part of them who had advanced so far perished After that the Tartars having in vain attempted to gain the Flank of the Imperialists their Army divided into two parts and one part retired towards Teckely's Camp the other towards the Bridges of Vienna where a great many perished who cast themselves into the Danube in hopes of swimming over The Infidels were inferior in number to the Imperialists who had then above 30000 Horse There perished in that action between 1000 and 1200 Men of the Turks and Tartars who had apparently been Conquerors if Teckely had assisted them to purpose The Turkish Troops and those of the Male-contents having been repulsed and beaten more than once on the other side the Danube the Vizier could hardly have any communication with them nor give them assistance that there was one of the greatest faults which he made in the Enterprize of the Siege of Vienna whereas he ought before all things to be Master of the two Mouths of the Danube and to pursue the Imperial Army which could not have made head against a much greater number of Troops so that while one part of the Army had carried on the Siege the other might have cover'd it and have foraged all about which the Vizier having understood too late order'd the Walachians and Moldavians to labour to rebuild the Bridges of Vienna which the Imperialists had broken
make use of this advice and Ragotski in consideration of his Father-in-Law restored them their Churches and caused the Ministers to be paid the Arrears of their Pension with a promise that they should thenceforth be punctually paid The Protestants who thought they were very happy in Roman-Catholick States when they were promised the exercise of their Religion and that their Pastors should have whereupon to subsist received what Rogotski granted them as a signal favour and testified that they were ready to serve him with their Goods and Lives After the Victory of St. Godard the Emperor who had an extraordinary Inclination to make Peace reapt no other advantage by it but that he thereby engaged the Turks to enter into new Negotiations with him Those that had been begun at Themiswar were only interrupted by the War The Emperors Agents remain'd all that time near the Grand Vizer who had retained them to renew it when he should find it for his purpose Having told them that it would be no hard matter at that time to enter upon some accommodation he permitted them to give advice of it to the Emperor This Prince presently embraced this occasion and sent orders to Montecuculi to commit no acts of Hostility The Vizier did the same on his part and the Treaty was concluded ten days after the Battel of Raab Besides the secret Articles it was agreed that the Emperor should withdraw all his Troops from Transylvania whereof Abaffi should remain Master unmolested and that the Estates thereof in case he should die should make an Election of a new Vaivode without any molestation according to the ordinary manner that the Turks should keep what they had taken demolishing Zekelheid on condition that they would not repair the Fort of Serin That the Emperor to whom the Soveraignty of the Lands of the two Counties of Zathmar and Zambolich which Ragotski enjoyed had been given up might notwithstanding build a Fort on the Tibisque to cover them That this Truce should be for 20 years and that in order to ratifie it the Emperor should send to the Port an Ambassador with a Present of 200000 Florens When these Articles were publisht very different judgments were made of it some blamed the Emperor for this that he was so far from reaping any fruit from a glorious victory that he abandoned to the Turks Transylvania Newhaussel and a considerable part of Hungary They were astonisht that an Army of 40000 chosen Men paid in a great partby others had been made use of to no other end than to preserve to the Infidels the Conquests they had made The Imperial Ministers excused themselves with necessity and they said that they chose rather to make a Peace that was not very honourable than a War that would be destructive to the Emperor Yet some have believed that the principal reasons of this Peace were on one hand the Fear the Emperor was possessed with that he should not be long succoured by the Troops of the Empire who did not look upon his advancement with a good Eye and on the other side the humour of the Prince of Porcia prime Minister to the Emperor strongly inclined to a Peace because he was not capable to maintain himself in the credit he was in during the War Add to this that Leopold himself thought on nothing else than to receive Margaret of Austria his Spouse and fear'd that if Philip IV. should die while the Empire was embroil'd in the Hungarian War the French King would invade his Estates None were so troubled at so shameful a Treaty as the Hungarians They saw themselves thereby abandon'd to the Turks who in the midst of the Peace would not fail to work them 1000 mischiess by means of the new Garrison of Newhaussel The two Counts of Serin and the Croats who were in their Interests disapproved it extreamly because having been the first to advice the War and the Fort of Serin having been partly a cause of it they saw well that they should be despised during the Peace or even hated as the Authors of a War destructive to the Emperor Some Hungarians were so bold as to rob the Secretary to the Emperors Resident near the Grand Vizier and to take away from him the Treaty of Peace which he carried to Vienna This action and the complaints of the Hungarians who said openly that they had shamefully abandoned almost all Lower Hungary to the Turks and a part of the Upper to the Insolences of the Garrison of Newbaussel obliged the Emperor to cause some of the Principal Lords of Hungary to come to Vienna to appease them The Prince of Lobkovits Prime Minister after the death of Porcia spoke to them in name of the Emperor and endeavoured to make them comprehend that this Peace was absolutely necessary He added that the Emperor was ready to withdraw the German Troops from the rest of Hungary provided the Hungarians repaired the Fortifications of several little places near were put therein These Lords could answer nothing to this but that they would communicate what they had said to the first Diet who should not fail afterwards to send Deputies to Vienna In the mean while Count Gautier Lesle was dispatcht to the Port who went to Adrianople with the Grand Vizier who led him as in Triumph to ratifie the Treaty of Peace there The Grand Signior sent on his part to Vienna Cara Mahomet Bassa for the same design and brought the Count de Lesle to Constantinople to receive him there with more State Lobkovits Propositions were answered by writing in the beginning of the Year 1665. The Hungarians represented that the Kingdom had reason to complain that they had concluded a Peace with the Turk without the consent of the States that the Kings of Hungary had no Right to do it That it was not an easie thing to hinder the Inroads of the Turks that the German Soldiers whom they would send against them would do little less mischief than they That in fine they could not be resolved to ratifie a Peace so disadvantageous to their Countrey nor suffer themselves to be robbed by strangers Prince Lobkovits remonstrated to them anew the necessity they were under to make Peace with the Turks and told them that they could not complain that the Negotiation of Peace had been unknown to the States of Hungary since the Emperors Agents had communicated their Instructions to them at Presbourgh he added that it was true that they had concluded a Peace with great haste but that that was done to take advantage of the good Disposition of the Vizier which might change That as to the rest the Hungarians saw themselves delivered thereby from all the horrours that so deadly a War would draw after it which should be more cause of joy to them than the loss of Newhaussel was of sorrow That in fine the Emperor would build Forts near Newhaussel and put Troops therein to oppose the Inroads of the Garrison The Hungarians seeming
reason of Male-contents That in truth he had reastablished the Ancient Government but as to the rest the Laws had no more Authority than before and the Realm was daily a prey to strangers That the Malecontents had not ceased to offer his Imperial Majesty to lay down Arms if he would re-establish the Laws and would give any security that they should not be used as formerly That they came still with the same intention and that they pray'd his Majesty of Poland to interceed for them not doubting but he was touch'd with the miseries of Hungary and for so many years to see blood-spilt which might be better employed The King of Poland testified to them a sensible concernment at what had passed and expressed a great desire of seeing their miseries at an end He believed at the same time that he was bound to procure them Audience of the Duke of Lorrain who refused to hear them without the Emperors leave but at last thought fit to comply with the King of Poland The Deputies of the Malecontents after having protested that whatever opinion might be conceived of their conduct against which they would have it that an infinite number of People were prejudiced without having well examined it they had always been for Peace and did not yet demand any thing else They represented that they were ready to enter into a Treaty with Commissioners that his Imperial Majesty should give them that for that end it was necessary as it had been at the end of former Campaigns to make a suspension of Arms and to mark the Counties of Hungary where it should be found fit for the Troops of the Malecontents to take their Winter Quarters The Duke of Lorrain who had no Orders thereupon represented to them the wrong which they had done in continuing in Rebellion and exhorted them to renounce all manner of Alliance with the Turks to lay down their Arms and implore the Emperor's Clemency after which he doubted not but they would have cause to praise his Bounty The Deputies replied That if they had taken Arms and had enter'd into any Engagement with the Turks it was but by force after having seen that their Enemies hinder'd the Emperor from having any regard to their just Complaints and that there was no appearance that he would do them Justice Thereupon they went back to the King of Poland where they stay'd some time and by that it was perceiv'd that they were not in such a terrour as was thought Soon after Lewentz opened its Gates to the Imperialists and the Counties of Tirnaw Trenshin and Nitrie who had taken part with the Malecontents at the arrival of the Turkish Army declar'd against them after the Battel at Barkan As soon as the Bridge which the Duke of Lorrain caus'd to be made was finish'd and that his Troops had pass'd to the other side the County of Wesprin followed the example of the others On the 23d of October the Duke of Lorrain encamp'd at Gran upon the Avenues of Buda to hinder them from relieving the place on that side He had been reinforced with the Elector of Bavaria's Foot which he sent the Emperor from which Men were assur'd that this was to close the Campagne with an Enterprize which might bring Honour to the Imperial Arms. He also came himself to the Camp with what Horse he had on the 26th in the Morning and saw the Reduction of the Place the day after The Garrison near 4000 Strong went out the 28th with Arms and Baggage according to the Capitulation and was Conducted to Buda Although the Fortifications of Gran were not considerable yet a Garrison so numerous might easily have defended it a long while if the Losses which the Turks had this Campagne had not intimidated them Besides the Castle which is upon a Rock and which has a Spring of Running Water which alone might supply them some Weeks if a disorder had not been among the Infidels The Visier who according to the Rules of War ought to have Cover'd Gran and who had nothing to fear being still much more strong than the Imperialists retir'd not only to Buda but also to Esseck and from thence to Belgrade where he was Strangled for his Ill Conduct the 25th of December the same Year by Order of the Grand Seignior The Duke of Lorrain gave the Government of Gran to Carlowits Major of the Regiment of Count Marc Staremberg with a Garrison of a Thousand Men and repassed the Danube to the Army on the 30th after having given the Necessary Orders for repairing the Breaches of the Place They spoke of nothing after that but Winter Quarters and there were assign'd to the King of Poland the Counties of Eperies Cassovia and Tokai which the Malecontents had the preceding Winter with the Frontiers of Transylvania As to the last Article the King agreed with the Vaivoide for Money that he might not be burthensome to the Transylvanians and obtain'd of the Emperor a larger extent for his Quarters in Hungary Before his parting to go thither the King gave the Duke of Lorrain to understand that he would oblige him in hearing once more the Proposals of the Malecontents The Duke excus'd himself at first for that he had not yet received from the Emperor any Power to treat of this Affair but the King representing to him that without engaging himself to any thing he might hear what they ask'd and take such Measures thereupon as he should judge fitting he consented For that end a Meeting was had in the King's Tent the Fifth of November The Vice-Chancellor of Hungary who had been instructed by the Deputies of the Malecontents was their Spokesman He in few words made appear the Advantage the Emperor might draw from Hungary by granting what they askt in the War against the Turks in which being joyn'd with his Army they might easily resist the Infidels without necessity of seeking help elsewhere He shew'd that His Imperial Majesty who values himself upon his Clemency more than any other Vertue would do a good thing in giving Peace to an infinite number of Innocents who would suffer more than could be imagin'd in a Civil and Foreign War After that he propos'd Six Articles on the part of the Malecontents which he desir'd to be granted 1. The Censervation of their Privileges 2. Liberty of Conscience 3. The Restitution of Confiscated Estates 4. The Summoning a Free Diet and wherein they could to contribute towards it 5. Winter Quarters and a Suspension of Arms while they were upon a Treaty 6. The Soveraignty of some Counties which had the Year before been offer'd to Tekeli The Vicechancellor of Polund added to this That although they had had great Advantages against the Turks they must not imagine that they had entirely quell'd them That by making the Malecontents desperate they would joyn them with the Turks for ever and that it was impossible to be assor'd that this Conjuncture would not sometime yet produce great
informed by this Declaration that the Turks had not put him to death but they were not in a capacity to help him otherways than with their Wishes and Prayers Thus he tarried a long while about Giula without undertaking any thing It is reported that the Turks fearing that he being weary at last of so many Crosses of Fortune he would reconcile himself to the Emperour got him to be watched so near that he could do nothing but they were acquainted with it Some great Disorders happened a little while after at the Port where the Chiaoux made a new Vizier who had brought up Soliman upon the Throne was treacherously murthered by the Seditious and the Grand Seignior himself was in a eminent danger of being Deposed He could not get off but by appeasing the mutiny'd Troops with a great deal of Money and causing some of the hottest to be strangled He created Vizier Ismal Bacha in the room of the Chiaoux and published every-where that he would go into Hungary at the head of the Armies or at least to Adrianople to be nearer to them and readier to send them the necessary Orders It was ordered in the mean while that all the Preparations should be got ready against the next Campaigne The first thing they did to the Princess Ragotski after her arrival at Vienna was to take away her Children from her and to get them to be brought up in the Romish Religion instead of the Lutheran wherein they had been instructed since their Mother was married to Count Teckely This last having had notice they had carried his Wife to Vienna petitioned for to have leave to write to her which was denied him by the Emperour's Officers Notwithstanding because it was a hard matter to surprize him what measures soever they could take they thought to have found out the means to make him away in corrupting two of his Troops Officers who engaged some Souldiers in their Conspiracy and who had executed it had it not been discovered But they having been betrayed by some amongst them they were all hanged with a Bill wherein one could read these words Traytor to his Prince to his Religion and Country The Army expressed a great Joy that that Plot had been discovered and abused the very dead Bodies of those unfortunate Men. A little while after the Hungarians of St. Job's Garison and many of those that had been at Mongatz came to surrender themselves to him because notwithstanding the Amnisty they were used very ill at all times and that the least Fault in them was punished by Death they perceived there was no trusting upon the Imperialists Promises after having been in Arms against them and that they had forgiven them what was past only till they could find an opportunity to destroy them That Conduct of the Imperialists is the cause that Teckely has not been seen yet without a little Body of Hungarians become irreconcileable to the Germans He was then upon the Frontiers of Transilvania with eight thousand Men and raised some considerable Contributions out of the Neighbourhood in spite of the Imperialists These last would leave wholly Transilvania where Count Caraffa left four thousand Men to hinder Abafti from making a new Treaty with the Port that sollicited him to it a long while In the mean time he drew towards Esseck and a little while after the Garrison of Alba-Regalis destitute of Provisions and Succours and without hope of getting any perswaded the Bassa to surrender himself to some German Troops that intercepted the Victuals coming to them many Months Teckely received this news with Sorrow and the Turks fearing lest he should retire into Poland obliged him to take a new Oath of Fidelity and gave him new Assurances that they would not forsake him In the Month of June he attempted to surprize Chonod without any success On the contrary every thing seem'd to favour the Imperialists and the Elector of Bavaria being the only Commander of the Army during the Sickness of the Duke of Lorrain passed the Save in August and took Belgrade the seventh of the next Month altho' they had got some Succours into it in the beginning of the Siege True it is that that place was not very strong but there were in it almost all that remained of the good Troops the Turks had in Hungary and the Port was very much concerned in the keeping of it The Imperialists having got that Town were in a condition of plundering every where to the very Gates of Adrianople and to render themselves Masters of Servia Bosnia and Bulgaria because there is no other considerable place in those Provinces The Bassa of Bosnia who was a marching with some Troops to come to the Relief of Belgrade not only began his march too late but besides he was defeated by Prince Lewis of Baden who went to encounter him The Grand Seignior whom the Seditions had detained at Constantinople and who was not able to send a considerable Army into the Field had sent before he had the News of the Siege of Belgrade some Envoys to speak of Peace with the Emperor They arrived immediately after the taking of that place and understood by that it was still more necessary to come to some Agreement which they did not think at Constantinople It is very probable it had been soon concluded if the Emperor had not made excessive Demands of the Turks and if these last had not been so much the more incouraged as soon as they knew that Lewis the 14th King of France was at the end of September entered into the Territories of the Empire and had declared a War against the Emperour That made the next Year a great Diversion but because that is a thing that belongs to the general History of the Empire we shall not stick to it We shall say nothing neither of the Enterprize which William Henry of Nassan Prince of Orange performed at the end of that Year in England where after he had re-established the Laws he was made King of Great Britain Yet we must own that made not a little to hinder the Diversion the King of France would have made in favour of the Turks and the Malecontents of Hungary from being so considerable So that tho' the King of France had designed to make an happy Use of the Pretexts which the Rules of good Politicks suggested to him Terms taken out of the Declaration of War of France dated the 24th of September 1688. to prevent the excessive Greatness of the Emperor yet he was obliged to turn the best part of his Troops against England and Holland which hindered him from acting along while against the Emperor with the Forces necessary to make him abandon Hungary Count Teckely having had notice betimes that the French Army had attacked the Empire did not fail to make it known every-where and let the People understand how the King of France was a going to put the Emperour and the Empress into such a Confusion that the
into Themiswear but also seize upon one part of Transilvania which was weary of the Imperialists and who would be glad to lay hold on that Opportunity to declare themselves against them He kept always some Correspondency in Hungary and Letters with Cyphers were intercepted written to some of his Friends which made the People have a suspicion that there was a Design under hand but it could not be discovered It happened in the same time that is to say in April that some Houses were set on fire at Onod and some other Towns of Hungary and Transilvania which was laid upon the Emissaries of the Malecontents although they could not prove it The Turks sent some Succours to Teckely who endeavoured to lead them to Themiswear but having been wounded as he was forcing a Passage he was forced to go back towards Walaquia exspecting the Turkish Army which was meeting together at Sophia in Bulgaria That caused the Imperialists to apply themselves about fortifying Belgrade as well as it could possibly seeing the Confusion and the Charges occasioned by the War the Emperour had upon the Rhine did put him in because the Turks are very bad Inginiers they thought indifferent Fortifications or rather some Reparations in the old ones would serve to defend the Place which has been the cause it has been lost since They blocking up Cavis a long while since which being very remote from the Frontiers of the subdued Countries suffered much for Want without being willing to surrender They betook themselves too to block up Great Waradin and they began by plundering and spoiling the Country round about the place to hinder the Garrison from having any means to subsist They expected to attaque by that means three Places at once the two Towns we have already spoken of and that of Themiswear because the Turks being a great way off could not carry Victuals thither but with great difficulty chiefly to Canisa which was the remotest of all but they could not hinder some Convoys from getting at several times into Themiswear and Waradin Prince Lewis of Baden went to Belgrade to command a little Body of an Army which was there with an intent to observe the Turks March and to watch the opportunities to do them some Damage The Imperial Troops being so divided those that were about Waradin did not find themselves strong enough to keep the Garrison within the Place for after having repelled it back twice with great difficulty they were wholly defeated at the third Sally and their Commander made a Prisoner five or six hundred of them remained dead upon the Spot the rest betook themselves to their Heels Teckely did the best he could on his side to raise the Blockade of Themiswear which felt already great Incommodities for not having been provided with Victuals But because he had been necessitated to pass the Danube and to retire into Servia lest he should be surrounded with the Imperial Troops which were on the other side of the Danube it was a hard matter to come over it again The Imperialists had garrisoned all the little Places which are along the River to hinder the Communication the Turks of Hungary had with those of Servia Teckely set upon one of those Towns called Novigrad upon the Frontiers of Bulgaria and made the Garrison of it Prisoners of War After the taking of that place three thousand Walaquians came to him in spite of General Heuster who lay upon the Frontiers of Walaquia with a Body of Troops to oppose to the Designs of the Count. The Walaquians feared extreamly least the Imperialists should enter into their Territories as they had done into those of the Transilvanians and use them as they pleas'd but they committed the same fault as the last had done that is that instead of acting openly for the Turks and making all their Endeavours to support that wavering Party they did but help them under-hand a Conduct that did but irritate the Emperour but not hinder him from quartering his Troops amongst them The Moldavians did also the same and found themselves at last exposed to the same Troubles altho' a little less by reason of their being afar off In the mean while Prince Lewis of Baden was advanced in July as far as the River Morave to observe the Turkish Army's March having had notice that that Army was stronger than his which consisted not of full thirty thousand Men that the Turks was fifty thousand he returned the same way and to increase his Army he got the Fortifications of many little Towns to be levelled to the Ground along the Danube and took out of them the Troops that were in Garrison therein The Turks having seen the Christian Army return towards Belgrade passed the River Morave to follow it but having had notice they had received some Reinforcement from Transilvania went back again over the River and retired themselves towards Nissa where they intrenched themselves Prince Lewis of Baden falled not to follow them but there fell such a quaintity of Rain that it was impossible to overcome the difficulty of the Ways and the Provisions having begun to grow scarce they were forced to return back towards the Bridges they had laid over the Morave hard by Passarowis The Army arrived there at the end of August and was soon followed by that of the Turks who believed the Christians did fly from them a second time The Infidels made a great Detachment of their Cavalry supported by some Janisaries to disturb the March of the Christian Army and endeavour to intercept the Convoys which would come from Semandria where the Magazines of the Christians were But that Detachment was defeated the 29 of August and betook it self to flight after having lost five or six hundred Men. The next day the Christian Army advanced to that of the Turks who expected them being regularly drawn in Battalia beyond a Wood. The Christians had crossed the Wood and their Infantry was drawn up in Battel-array in the Plain beyond it under the favour of a Mist when the Weather clearing up made the Turks perceive the Fault they had committed in letting almost all the Enemy's Army to pass without having made any Opposition Upon which they came forward to charge it with much Fury but having been received with great Valour they gave back and the Christian Army having advanced accordingly the Horse had room enough to inlarge their Wings and to assault the Infidels Presently they gave way every-where and they had been cut into pieces if the Ground had not been incumbered with Woods and Entrenchments beyond which the Turks did rally and which were to be forced one after another Having been repelled thus they retired into their Camp where it was thought they would hold out but they were so much affrighted that as soon as they perceived some Imperial Regiments appear they left it with all their Cannon and Ammunition and also the best part of their Baggage The Christian Army went to encamp