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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	advantage_n	great_a	horse_n	1,030	5	6.8368	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46308	A journal of the late motions and actions of the confederate forces against the French in the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands with curious remarks on the situation, strength, and rarities of the most considerable cities, towns and fortifications in those countreys : together with an exact list of the army / written by an English officer who was there during the last campaign.	English officer who was there during the last campaign.	1690 (1690)	Wing J1099; ESTC R36213	18,680	35

our Army on pain of Death and burning their Houses whereupon all Provisions began to grow very scarce and dear whereat our General being enraged sent two Regiments of Brandenburgh Foot to require admission into the Town and that they should bring their Provisions to the Camp where they should receive the utmost value for them which if they declined to do he would batter the Town about their Ears These Proposals were with reluctancy condescended unto and the Brandenburghers accordingly posted in the Town This is the Walled Village which was more superstitiously than wisely so vigorously Attaqued by the French Army on St. Lewis's day which is their Kings Birth day out of a fond conceit that that day is always prosperous to their Arms which day being on the Sixteenth of this Instant proved the direct contrary their rashness being the occasion of the loss of most of the principal Officers of their Army besides 3000 Sentinels killed in the Field and a number wounded with the loss of not above 50 or 60 on our side among which was only one Officer of Note who was a Major The Engagement began on a Party of the Dutch who gave way on the first Charge but our English being there also who were the Guards that day for covering the Forragers on whom the Design of the French Army chiefly was and indeed if they could have passed that Guard they might have taken 5000 of them they bore the Brunt of the Battle and by their bravery gained the advantage of the Gound which if the French could have got they would have made use of it to our great damage All this while the Brandenburghers in Wall-Court were not idle but received the Attaque made on them with a great deal of courage committing a great slaughter on the Enemy who demonstrated a great deal of desperate valour to little purpose This Rancounter lasted ten Hours the Cannons playing all that while on both sides theirs did us on mischief but ours cut off several of their Horse and made Lanes through their Foot as they Retreated which they did not do till they saw the Scotch Regiment and the English Guards advance whereupon they sounded a Retreat and sent to our General for leave to bury their Dead to which the General gave his consent after having taken from them 12 of their Cannon not esteeming it adviseable to follow Victory too far In burying their dead they had the Boars to assist them for which reason before we decamped the General ordered their Villages to be burnt and gave the Soldiers leave to Plunder their Churches wherein they found great Booty The French Army is now Encamped within a Mile of us and our Advance-guards can see their whole Camp In the Fight and after the Fight several Deserters came in to us who gave us Account that a Multitude of their best Officers were slain and that Marshal De Humiers narrowly escaped one of his Field Officers being cut off by a Cannon Ball whilst he was leaning on his Shoulder Here we stay'd till the 19th when we Marched about two Leagues designing to Encamp but the French being Encamped too near us and the Place of our Encamping not strong our General thought fit to change his Measures and so marched the Army three Leagues further that day a Party of the French following us but at a great distance Near our Camp we received an Alarum that the French were in the Rear of us whereupon our General in half an hour put the whole Army into an advantageous Posture to receive them but finding the Alarum to be false and that it was only our own Rear Guard we Marched to our Camp where we stay'd till the 22th And being informed that the Enemy designed to get betwixt us and Charleroy having likewise Advice from the Duke of Lorraine not to Engage them we Marched early that Morning without sound of Trumpet or beat of Drum through a very thick Wood having the Evening before sent away our Cannon and Baggage toward the Sombruff after having forraged and ravaged in the French Territories For three Weeks through this Wood the French followed us whereof having Advice and finding a little Plain in the middle of the Wood our General there drew up the Army lined the Wood Manned a Shottoe and turned our Cannons upon them which their Out guards perceiving Wall-Court being fresh in their memory they were perswaded to be so Mannerly as to keep their distance However we Marched in a retreating Posture relieving their Rear every half hour by this means the English Guards who led the Van in Morning Marched in the Rear in the Afternoon thus we Marched over the Sombruff by the help of four Bridges on Copper Boats guarded with Cannon as soon as we got over we Encamped at a Place called Jollie by the River side Jollie Here we stayed till the 29th but on the 27th in the Morning by break of day the French having raised two Batteries over Night laid on us with ten Pieces of Cannon of twenty four pound Ball from one Battery and eight Pieces of eighteen pound Ball from the other Battery but we were prepared for them and had provided sixteen Cannon to play against them which were managed so well that we did a great deal of Execution both on their Battery and Guards and Attendants We killed three of their Eminent Officers with one of our Balls and found several of their Horses next day dead near the Batteries Of our side we lost only two Men and a Woman a Bomb fell among the Officers of Colloner Hayle's Regiment without doing any harm the Fuzze being stifled two more fell in a Meadow near our Guards with the same success there likewise fell two Hundred Balls among our Tents which injured neither Man nor Horse All the prejudice done was that some of the Tents were torn among which the Duke of Ormonds was one notwithstanding which the Duke stood his ground with the Troop drawn up for three Hours in the heat of the Cannon adoing the General having forgot to send him Orders to draw off without which he was resolved not to quit his post This sort of game lasted from four in the Morning till eleven during which space of time the Cannons never ceased playing In the end we constrained them to quit their Battery and we returned to our ground again where we encamped that Night and the next day we marched to Moutaine Sur le Samberg Mountaine Sur Le Samberg Here we stayed till the 2d of September when we marched to our old Camp called Vill de Perway Vill de Perway Here we were encamped in two Lines for two days without any Action The Weather being very bad many of our Men fell sick of the Flux with eating of Fruit wherewith this Country doth much abound By this and other Accidents four Regiments of our English Foot and two of Dutch were so wasted that it was thought fit to send them to