numbers several of which are Italians and Spaniards taken Prisoners at the Battel of Marsalia in Piedmont and unjustly forced into the Service they all concur the Garrison consists of 21 Battalions of Foot and 8 Regiments of Dragoons 8th Twenty Battalions of Foot whereof Thirteen were English and Scotch from the Army in Flanders commanded by the Prince de Vaudemont joined us commanded by Lieutenant-General Count de Nassau and Major-General Ramsey 9th A great many Deserters came over to us amongst which were some Officers who say Boufflers is to stay and command in chief in the Town and Castle which he pretends to hold out till September and then does not question Relief 10th My Lord Cuts from the other Army joined us with Four English and Two Dutch Battalions more so that we had now in all Ninety Battalions of Foot the Horse under the Command of my Lord Athlone marched towards Piâ—ton to post themselves in that strong Camp and secure that of Masy 11th This day we finished our Lines and began to work on several Batteries and our Cannon and Mortars arrived from Huy the same time we had Advice that Villeroy was moving towards Pont d' Espierre and that Prince Vaudemont lay still at Wontegrem and Gramme near Deynse 12th The Trenches were opened Major-General Fagell commanding the Troops that had the Guard of them in the night the Enemy made a Sally with about a thousand men with an intent to disturb our Workmen and Works but were beaten in again with the loss of about forty men besides what were wounded We had three men killed on our side and thirteen wounded Major-General Fagell being shot into the Neck where the Ball remained until he came off that is was relieved 13th The Trenches were mounted by Major-General Lindeboom and our Approaches carried on with good success under the direction of Monsieur Tetteau Lieutenant-General of the Dutch Artillery and Monsieur Du Puy chief Ingenier who carry the Attacks on against the Town whilst Monsieur Cohorne carries on those against the Castle between the Sambre and the Meuse where the Elector of Bavaria has his Quarters we have this day three Batteries playing and more preparing A Convoy of Provisions that were coming from Lovain this day were attacked by a French Party during the Skirmish some Sutlers Carts were plundered but they were soon made to retire 14th The King received notice that the Mareschal de Villeroy had passed the Lys and was marching towards Prince Vaudemont and that his Highness had posted himself so as to receive him or make a good Retreat if he saw it necessary and that my Lord Berkley with the Fleet had bombarded St. Maloes and Granville with good success the latter being quite destroyed whereupon His Majesty did this day detach a Brigade of Foot to join the Earl of Athlone's Camp and with Orders to march from thence to Prince Vaudemont's if there should be occasion Deserters continue to come over upon all opportunities 15th His Majesty received an Express from Prince Vaudemont viz. That on the 13th in the Morning he had Advice that the Mareschal de Villeroy had passed the River Lys near Courtray over several Bridges laid for that purpose being strengthned by the Troops drawn out of all the French Garrisons in Flanders that Monsieur de Montall with the Forces under his command was on his march to join him and that together their Army would consist of 90 Battalions of Foot and 149 Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons Towards Eleven of the Clock a Signal was given by firing two Pieces of Cannon for our Army which consisted only of 42 Battalions and 48 Squadrons to put themselves in order of Battel which was immediately done And the Prince thought fit at the same time to change his Camp posting his Right at Arsele and his Left between Gramme and Hottom the Village of Wontregem on our backs after which we had notice that the Enemy advanced towards us and that they had already passed the River Mandell and the Defile of Dintergem where our Right was before the Night following the whole Army continued under Arms and we began to intrench our selves We thought the Enemy would have attacked us by break of day but they did nothing but amuse us while the greatest part of their Forces filed off towards our Right at Cannegem this kept our General in suspence until Three in the Afternoon when we saw the Enemy's Battalions begin to plant their Colours between Cannegem and our Right within two Musket-shots of our Intrenchment while their Horse and Dragoons moved towards the Village of Fink in order to get between us and Ghent and to attack our Right Wing in Rear and Flank whereupon our General gave Orders about four in the Afternoon for a Retreat and having sent away the Artillery the whole Army marched off in great order and made as fine a Retreat as ever was seen for notwithstanding the Enemy's Numbers who by reason of the Detachments we had made to Dixmuyde and Namur were stronger than we by almost 40000 men we continued our march without any other disturbance save that some of their Troops charged three or four of our Battalions that were in the Rear of all but they were soon forced to retire having killed some few on either side We marched the 15th all night and came to Ghent yesterday about Seven in the Morning and passing through that City encamped with the Schelde before us where we shall observe the Enemy's Motions and either march towards Brussells or Newport as shall be found necessary The French being enraged at their having thus missed their Aim took their revenge upon the Countrey people plundring and burning in their march without having even any regard to the Religious Houses the Duke of Wirtemberg was sent to join Major-General Ellemberg with a strong Detachment to cover Newport or Dixmuyde the Earl of Athlone marched likewise nearer Flanders to join Prince Vaudemont if need require 15th Major-General Salish relieved the Trenches and carried the Works on with good success 16th Major-General Lindeboom relieved the Guard of the Trenches 17th Major-General Hewklem relieved the Guard aforesaid 18th Our Works and Approaches being carried on within Pistol-shot of the Enemy's Outworks upon the Hill near the Brussell's-Gate His Majesty was resolved to attack the same and the necessary Dispositions being made for it accordingly the Attack was begun about Six in the Evening as followeth Major-General Ramsey was commanded with five Battalions of Guards to attack an old Tower below a place called la Bouge and the Enemy's Works descending towards the Counterscarp the disposition of the Attack was as followeth The first Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards the Battalion of the Coldstreamer's Regiment of Guards and the Battalion of Scotch Guards for the Right-hand Attack towards the bottom And the second Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards and one Battalion of Dutch Guards for the Left-hand Attack by the Old
and Places adjacent which before lay exposed and opens to the Confederates a Passage into France And seeing they could not defend it after having fortified it with so many new and very strong Out-works and filled it with such a number of Troops and vast Magazines part whereof was designed for the Attacking of Liege that with Assistance of such an Army they lookt upon the place impregnable they will be glad to have their boasting Relations forgot which they printed when they became Masters of the Place in the Year 1692. According to the French Gazette printed at Paris the Garrison consisted at the beginning of the Siege of 21 Battalions of Foot 7 Regiments of Dragoons and one of Horse with a Mareschal of France at the Head of them besides other General Officers and after a long Resistance had an Army of 100000 men drawn together from the Rhine their Seacoasts and other Parts who instead of Relieving it contented themselves with making some motions that way and with being Witnesses of the Extraordinary Bravery and Courage of the Forces of the Allies and particularly of the English and Scotch which appeared in the last as well as all the other Attacks during the Siege to a degree that cannot be expressed as it ought or sufficiently commended for considering the Advantage the Enemy had in their numbers of men that they were posted so as to cut off any orderly Retreat we could possibly make that if they had Engaged us we must have vanquisht or perisht being shut up between three Rivers But the Vigilance of the Allies was superiour to that of the Enemies having overcome them without fighting by their Wisdom Valour Union and Conduct which at that time all concurr'd to this great Success But the great Mercy of the Almighty was then most visible in preserving our most Sacred King who exposed himself in all Places of the greatest Danger and on all Occasions as well before the Town and Castle as in the Field therefore to God be the Praise and Thanks An Account of the Artillery and Ammunition found in the Castle of Namur upon a Survey the third and fourth of September 1695. by the Commissaries appointed for that purpose Cannon  24 Pounders 7 16 3 12 2 10 9 8 4 6 12 5 18 4 10 3 3 2 1  69 Mortars with the Arms of France 4 Hauwitzers with the same 4 Powder in several places about two hundred eighty one thousand weight  Great Bombs of 500 l. weight 50 Ordinary Bombs about 2000 Lesser Bombs 1000 Grenadoes of 24 l. weight 750 Ordinary Grenadoes fixt 40000 Cannon Ball 150 Saltpeter and Brimstone about 15 Spare Muskets 800 Besides what Guns small Arms and Ammunition the Enemy after the Capitulation threw into the Sambre as was suspected The Arms may be easily recovered thence 6th The King ordered the Guard to be taken off the Mareschal de Boufflers upon his giving his parol to remain a Prisoner And his Majesty with the Duke of Bavaria and the General Officers viewed all the Breaches in order to their being repaired and put in a defensible Condition and likewise gave order for some additional Works The same day Prince Vaudemont left the Army and returned to Brussels with orders for the English Troops to march thence to the Burnt-bridge whence Count Tilly from Lovain was to joyn them with other Forces and march into Flanders 7th The King Detach'd the Brandenburghers Hessians and Lunenburghers from his Camp to Namur to assist the other Battalions there to level the Trenches and other Works and to mend the Breaches who are afterwards to march further and observe the French between the Sambre and the Meuse and towards the Condros 8th His Majesty with the whole Army marcht from Bouquet to Sombref about two Leagues the Mareschal de Boufflers was the same day removed from Namur to Maestricht under the Conduct of Monsieur de L'Estang and the Hostages for performance of the Capitulation of the Castle of Namur returned on either side This day the King sent ◠the fourth Troop of Dutch Guards and some of his Horses and Equipage towards Loo 9th The Landgrave of Hesse took his leave of his Majesty in order to his return to Cassal and the Army marched from Sombref to Bois Seigneur Isaac his Majesty's Quarters being in the Cloyster of that Name The Mareschal de Villeroy marched the same day from Binch to Cambron near Aeth having his Quarters at Aucvre in the same place where his Majesty lay last Campaign when our Forces encampt on the same Ground 10th His Majesty continued his March from Bois Seigneur Isaac to Limbeck near Hall his Majesty having his Quarters in a Chatteau belonging to the Prince of Steinhuise 12th His Majesty took a Review of the whole Army and the Foot were short of their Complement the Horse and Dragoons made it up by the extraordinary good Condition his Majesty found them in In the Evening the Elector of Bavaria returned from Brussels to the Army and informs his Majesty that the Mareschal de Boufflers has sent the Captain of his Guards from Maestricht to acquaint him That the King his Master is willing to restore the Garrisons of Dixmuyde and Dynse in order to his being set at liberty And his Majesty has taken the said Mareschal's word that the said Garrisons shall be sent back so soon as the French King has Notice of his Arrival at Dinant 'T is said the Mareschal is made a Duke and Peer of France We have had a great deal of Rain of late which in all probability will put an end to this Campain without any further Action 13th His Majesty sent off the heavy Baggage to Brussels with one of his Majesty's Beds and the Servants thereunto belonging with orders to stay there until further orders that if the King should have occasion to return to the Camp again there might be a Bed and Necessaries ready Quarter-Master Verhaest was likewise dispatched forward towards Breda to order re-lays of Horses for the Coaches 14th His Majesty left the Army at Limbeck under the Command of the Elector of Bavaria c. and went to Macklyn where his Majesty lay that Night 15th His Majesty continued his Journey from Macklyn to Breda where his Majesty arrived that Evening and was waited on by the Pensioners of Holland and several Members of the States to take his Majesty's Directions about the finishing and regulating some particular Affairs necessary to be done before his Majesty's going over for England Great rejoycing were every where as his Majesty passed for his safe and successful return from the Camp 16th His Majesty viewed the Fortifications and gave Directions for the facing with Brick a Half-moon according to the rest of the Works it being washed partly away upon one Angle by the beating of the Water against it After which his Majesty was waited on and complemented by the Magistracy for his Majesty's Successful Campaign and safe Return to them 17th Early
Tower at the head of each of these Attacks were 120 armed Fusiliers carrying Fascines before them and 120 Granadiers followed by 100 Workmen with Tools and Gabions On the Right of the Body on the Right-hand were 100 Granadiers carrying Fascines before them followed by 50 Workmen and the same numbers of Granadiers and Workmen on the Right of the Body on the Left-hand betwixt the two Attacks The Signal being given a little after Six in the Evening the several Battalions marched forward in the order before-mentioned with the greatest Courage and Undauntedness that was ever seen without taking any notice of the Enemy's Fire which was very furious and the Fusiliers in the front carried their Fascines to the very Pallisadoes where laying them down they fired upon the Enemy and the Granadiers threw their Granadoes into the Tower and Works while the Battalions marched close after them in order with their Arms shouldered till they came so near that they presented over the Pallisades drove the Enemy from thence and pursued them through a large place of Arms to the bottom of that Work The French making fresh fire from the Counterscarp and a Redoubt on the other side of a hollow way on our Flank my Lord Cuts with Three Battalions from our Trenches viz. Tidcomb Stanley and Collingwood's came immediately to sustain our Men with the first Battalion he marched to the lowest Pallisades and with the Guards again repulsed the Enemy a great number of them into the Water and the rest where they could best escape Brigadier Fitz-Patrick marched at the same time with the Regiment of Lord George Hamilton his own Regiment of Fuseliers Ingoldsby Saunderson Lawder and Maitland the two first of these were sent to relieve the Dutch Guards and those with the Lord Cuts at the lowest Pallisades and the rest were drawn up by the Tower to sustain as the Action should require except the Regiment of Lawder which was posted on the other side of the hollow way to prevent being flanked or surprized in the mean time Major General Ramsey ordered all the Pikemen to carry Fascines and to dig till a Work was made sufficient to resist Musket shot where he Posted the Regiments of Ingoldsby Saunderson Lawder and Maitland and at break of day drew off the rest of the Troops to the first Parade the heat of the Action lasted about Two hours during which time we possessed our selves of the Enemies Works which were defended by great numbers of Men the General Officers Colonels and all the other Officers and private Soldiers behaving themselves in their several Stations with the greatest Vigor and Bravery forcing the Enemy to give ground where-ever they came and made them pay for their Ill Language of Come on you English Dogs You English Rebels The Chief Officers Killed and Wounded in this Action are of the first Regiment of English Guards Colonel Robinson Killed and Lieutenant Colonel How and Lieutenant Colonel Davis Wounded of the Coldstream Guards Colonel Matthews Lieutenant-Colonel Edgworth Lieutenant-Colonel Jones Wounded and Lieutenant-Colonel Pierce and Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison taken Prisoners of the Scotch Guards Colonel John Hamilton Wounded of the Dutch Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Goudaker Major Hetzler and Lieutenant-Colonel Pannie Wounded of the Royal Regiment Major Mac Ilvan Killed and Lord George Hamilton Wounded of Colonel Ingoldsby's Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Sabin Wounded feveral Captains Lieutenants and Ensigns in the Regiments before mentioned and the others that were Engaged in the Attack were likewise Killed and Wounded the whole Loss of private Soldiers as given in by the several Colonels is 308 Killed and 604 Wounded Deserters inform us that the Enemy had 1600 Killed and Wounded in this Action 19th Major-General Hewklem relieved the Guard of the Trenches the Enemy made a Sally yesterday on the Brandenburgh Quarter and Killed the Colonel that Commanded and about 100 men surprizing them in the Trenches but Coehorn's Regiment put a stop to the French and gave the Brandenburghs time to Rally and Beat back the Enemy 20th Major-General Salish Mounted the Guard of the Trenches the same day a Deserter came over to us and brought with him a Priest that he stopp'd making off from our Army into the Town whom he knew to be a Spie upon search Papers were found about him of Consequence the Deserter was Rewarded and the Priest sent to the Provost the Soldiers that remain in the Camp Wounded in the late Attack had daily Meat and Broth from the King 's own Kitchin-Tent 21st We finish'd several Batteries for 24 Pounders besides Mortars Major General Ramsey relieved the Trenches and the Works were pushed on with good success the Trenches being carried to the foot of the Bridge and Batteries preparing for 32 Mortars Prince Vaudemont continues at his Camp of Ostacker the Duke of Wirtemberg at Plassendaele between Bruges and Ostend and Sir Henry Bellasis near Newport with strong Detachments to observe the Enemy who have an eye on Dixmuyde where is a Garison of 8 Battalions under the Command of Major General Ellemberg who has caused the Sluces to be opened which covers one side of Dixmuyde with Water 22d The Batteries for Mortars were got ready to play against the two Bastions on each side St. Nicholas Gate we had now Eleven Batteries playing upon the Enemy the Breaches in the Bastions widen considerably but they have the old wall of the Town with a wet ditch and Retrenchments behind that Major-General Lindeboom relieving the Guard of the Trenches 23d The King had Advice that the Earl of Athlone was marched from the Village of Aubay to his former Camp of Pont a Selle where he covered the Seige Major-General Salish relieved the Trenches 24th Our Artillery-Horses were sent from hence towards Mechlyn to bring hither the Flanders train of Artillery in which are Eight Pieces of whole Cannon to be employed against the Castle Major-General Hewklem relieved the Guard of the Trenches this Evening 25th Major-General Ramsey relieved the Guard of the Trenches and carried on the works with great success in order to make a Lodgment having advanced above 300 paces in three days 26th We carried our Lines so far as to cut off the Communication between the Town and Fort Pollard which hindered our approaches to the Counterscarp and the Enemies other Works near St. Nicholas Gate whereupon the French Posted there were summoned to Surrender which they refused to do unless they might have leave to retire into the Town which was denied them and our Miners set at work who having made a considerable advance in the night lodged themselves under the Counterscarp of the said Fort The Garison consisting of a Captain Two Lieutenants an Ensign an Ingenier a Chirurgeon and 55 chosen Men of the Dauphin's Regiment Surrendred early the 27th at Discretion and were made Prisoners at War soon after our Guns were brought down and a Battery raised upon the said Fort to play upon the Counterscarp near St. Nicholas Port where we have been for some days
making a Breach and undermined the dams that keep up the Water in the ditch of the Town in order to drain the same by blowing them up 28th Major-General Lindeboom relieved the Guard of the Trenches and our Lines being carried on to the edge of the Maese near the Counterscarp all things were disposed for the Attack of it in order to a Lodgment on the Glacis and accordingly about 4 a Clock in the Afternoon it was begun by the Granadiers English and Dutch who with continual fire and Hand-granadoes with the help of our Batteries soon obliged the Enemy to retire and made a Lodgment on the Glacis but the Enemy having many works within this as the Counterguard the Ravelin and the Town-walls they very much annoyed our Men being also continually relieved from the Town however ours Fortified themselves and kept their Post our Granadiers were sustained by Colonel Ingoldsby's Regiment which suffer'd very much in this Action by the accident of Fire taking in the Woolsacks and Gabions that were to cover their Men Colonel Saunderson and Colonel Collingwood's Regiments sustained next to Ingoldsby's the Dutch Granadiers were sustained and relieved by Detachments of the Regiments of Ploen Tetteau Weed and Heyden Sweeds and Dutch Lieutenant-Collonels were Killed and another Wounded Mr. Godfrey Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England who was come from Antwerp to wait upon the King standing very near his Majesty in the Trenches was Killed by a Cannon Ball Lieutenant-Colonel Eck of the Fourth Troop of Guards had his Arm taken off by the same Shot 29th Our Lodgment being thus made on the Counterscarp on the side of the Maese as was intended our Batteries will be advanced nearer to the Enemies Works and a further Breach made for an Assault of the Town in the Attack of Yesterday we lost that is Killed and Wounded of the English and Dutch about 300. The Elector of Bavaria made an Attack at the same time upon the Cloyster of Salsine wherein the Enemy had a Garison of 400 Men and possess'd himself of it with little Loss by which means he can now make his approaches nearer to the Enemies works Upon the arrival of an Express from the Duke of Savoy with the good News of the Surrender of Casal all the Foot made a treble Discharge round the Town and Castle whilst our Cannon and Mortars did the same against them both as rejoicing upon-such an Occasion Major-General Salish relieved the Trenches 30th About Four a Clock in the Morning the Elector of Bavaria with a Detachment of Granadiers and 15 Battalions of Foot of his own the Brandenburgh and other Foreign Troops made an Attack upon the Works and Retrenchments the Enemy had without the Coehorn Fort upon the Hill towards the Sambre which hindred our approaches upon that side in about Two hours time we beat the Enemy out of them and pursued them to the very walls of the Castle so that we are now Masters of their great Line drawn over the Hill from the Sambre to the Maese on which the Enemy had two Batteries we are now Fortifying our selves there in order to Attack the Coehorn work it Rained violently all the while of the Attack notwithstanding which the Men continued it with great Resolution and we lost about 100 Men the Enemy are much disheartned at our being Masters of this strong Work which they gave out would cost us many Thousand Men the ascent of the Hill was difficult by reason of its rocky steepness and the Enemies Cannon playing on all sides yet sometimes on all four up they got and made themselves Masters of the pretended impregnable Line made by Monsieur Vauban the French Chief Ingenier Major-General Hewklem relieved the Trenches 31st The rest of the wounded in each Regiment were by water sent to Liege to the Hospital Erected there on this occasion well furnished with Doctors Chirurgeons Nurses and all manner of Conveniencies and Necessaries whatsoever This day the Guard of the Trenches was relieved by Major-General Ramsey August 1st His Majesty caused an Attack to be made on the Counterscarp before the Half-moon and on the Demi-bastion on our left near the Maese which was begun about Seven in the Morning by the English Guards under the Command of the Lord Cuts on the Right and by the Dutch Commanded by Brigadier Dedem on the Left and notwithstanding the fierce and continual fire of the Enemy by Ten a Clock we had made our Lodgment on the Right and secured the same and the Dutch lodged themselves on the point of the Demi-Bastion not being able to maintain the Work it self the King was all the while in the Trenches which His Majesty visited every day and because no time should be lost in giving necessary Orders His Majesty frequently eat in and near the Trenches the Provisions when drest being carried from His Majesty's Quarters thither Major-General Lindeboom relieved the Guard of the Trenches and carried on the Work with good success In this Action we had about 400 men killed and wounded of English and Dutch the Trenches were relieved somewhat after the usual hour by particular Order and then Major General Ramsey and Brigadier Fitzpatrick who came on the Guard visited the Works which they continued and carried about 50 Paces farther to the Right in this as well as all the other Actions of this Siege our men behaved themselves with such undaunted Courage and Bravery that they carried all before them for whatever they attacked they carried and what they took they maintained to the great disheartning and discouragement of the Enemy who found it in vain notwithstanding their numbers to pretend to resist such Vigour Nay the most Experienced Officers declare they never saw Attacks made with greater Vigour and Resolution 2d Preparations was made for a General Assault of the Town the Breaches being wide enough for 100 men in front We had an Account that the Dauphin with the Houshold Troops was marching from Court to join Villeroy and attempt the Relief of Namur cost what it would and that the French King in Person would come to the Frontiers At the same time arrived some Officers that made their escape from Dixmuyde after the surrender of that Place by Major-General Ellemberg amongst the rest Collonel Brewer who gave His Majesty an account of the whole Treachery and that Brigadier d' Offerrer had delivered up Deynse upon no better Account the Garisons being made Prisoners at War and the Enemy had Razed the Fortifications and carried the men towards Ypres 3d Major-General Salish relieved the Guard of the Works and Trenches and all things were disposed for an Assault of the Town when about Two in the Afternoon the Enemy hung out a White Flag and desired a Parley which being granted Hostages were exchanged Collonel William Seymour and Major Stork on our side and Count Nogent and a French Major on the Enemy's and Articles were sent out and demanded by the French for the Surrender of the Town
Spies the Woman had several Letters 21th Very early this Morning we began to fire from several Batteries in the Town with about 70 Pieces of Cannon and 40 Mortars and Haawitzers the Enemy began to fire some shot about Noon and afterwards from 5 Mortars which we endeavour'd to dismount a Brandenburgher relieved the Guard The two Battalions of Guards and the four English Regiments which have been employed during the Siege were this day relieved from the Army by six other Battalions This Night we continued to repair and enlarge our Trenches 22th His Majesty had Advice that the Enemy were come to Senefs and had drained all their Garrisons in order to attempt the relief of Namur upon which his Majesty went to view the Army Commanded by Prince Vaudemont at Mazy where his Majesty dined and in the Evening returned hither Deserters continue still to come over every Night and say our Cannon and Mortars from the Town do the Enemy considerable damage The Guard of the Trenches was this day relieved by Major General Salish 23d His Majesty was pleased to make Colonel Selwyn and the Lord George Hamilton Brigadiers General of Foot in consideration of their good Services and more particularly at this Siege Our Batteries continued to play with great success making Breaches along the side of the Cohorn next to the Town About Noon the King received Advice that Villeroy had made a review of his Troops at Soignies and yesterday marched to Fellug between Nivelle and Senef The Forces of Hesse and Lunenburg came up to us this Morning and are to assist at the Siege they passed the Maese about Noon being about 7000 Foot the Horse and Dragoons making together 22 Squadrons joyned the main Army under the Command of Prince Vaudemont 24th We carried on our Trenches very considerably notwithstanding the Enemies continual Fire and who endeavoured to disturb us in the Night with three false Salleys My Lord Cutts and Major General Swerin relieved the Guard 25th Our Trenches these three last Nights were pushed on 500 Paces 80 yards distant one behind the other and we are now within 200 Paces of the Enemies Redoubt at the foot of the Cohorn near the Sambre being a Stone Redoubt to Attack which all things were prepared but upon sight of our Men the Lieutenant that Commanded with 15 of the Enemy surrendred and were made Prisoners at War Count de Rivera mounted the Guard 26th Early in the Morning his Majesty received information that the Mareschal de Villeroy was marching with the Army to Flerus his Majesty thereupon thought fit to leave the Camp before the Castle of Namur to the Care of the Elector of Bavaria and Duke of Holstien Floen and joyned our main Army under Prince Vaudemont taking up his Quarters at the Village of Bone See near Mazy This day Major General Salish mounted the Guard 27th The Enemy remained at Flerus and were joyned by the Detachments from Germany and the other Troops Commanded by Monsieur de Harcourt c. from the Sea Coasts 28th The Enemy marched to Gemblours and seemed to dispose every thing to a Battel in the mean time we were not idle in preparing to receive them notwithstanding their Superiority of at least 20000 Men And our Forces that carried on the Attacks against the Castle went on vigorously 29th The Enemy did actually leave their Tents standing in their Camp and marched towards us in Battalia as near as the Ground would permit them Whereupon his Majesty caused our Army to be drawn out likewise in which Posture we remained the whole Day his Majesty being on Horsback from four in the Morning until eight at Night riding from Right to Left and to the Right again appearing every where to give necessary Orders and view the Disposition of the Enemy and our Army ordered to lye all Night under Arms in a readiness to receive the Enemy if they please to come on In the mean time all things were ready for a General Assault 30th The Enemy only appeared in the Front of our Line and moved off again without daring to attempt any thing and with about 70 Squadrons took Post at Bonef on the Mehaigne extending their Line from that place to the Right near Perwys Whereupon his Majesty caused our Army likewise to move and extended our Right to Longchamp our Left being near St. Dennis and a Brigade of Foot left at Mazy Camp to secure that Post This Day a General Assault was made against the Castle and Cohorn The Disposition as follows The Lord Cutts attacked the Counterscarp and Breach of the Terra Nova with a Detachment of Grenadiers and four Regiments of Foot Count Rivera Major General in the Spanish Service Attackt the Cohorn on the side next the Terra Nova with 3000 Spaniards and Bavarians Major General La Cave Attackt the Cohorn on the Right of the Spaniards with 2000 Brandenburgers Major General Swerin Attackt the Cassotte with 2000 Dutch and the lower Town by a Colonel and about 2000 Men. The English advanced with great Order and Resolution and had gained the top of the Breach through a great deal of Fire on all sides but found the Enemy so advantageously posted and entrenched behind the Breach and the Ground on their side so very craggy and uneven that it was impossible to advance in any Front were forced to retire Count Rivera was kill'd upon his approach to the Counterscarp but the Bavarians took Post upon a Saliant Angle of the Cohorn and maintained a hot Fire with the Enemy who disputed hard to dislodge them and when most of the Officers of the Bavarian Guards was killed and wounded and that the other Regiments had suffered very much the Enemy continuing their Fire with great obstinacy the English that had left the Terra Nova not being able to do any thing on that side sustained the Spaniards and Bavarians under the Command of my Lord Cutts who at the same time ordered a Lieutenant of Colonel Maccay's Regiment with 30 Men to pass the Pallisado's and Attack a Battery of the Enemies which he executed with the greatest Bravery and Resolution turning seven of the Enemies own Cannon against them securing at the same time several of their Mines ready to spring and the English and Bavarians planting their Colours upon the Pallisado's made a good Lodgment While this happened Major General La Cave with the Brandenburgers and Major General Swerin with the Dutch made each of them likewise a Lodgment which they improve in order to an Attack and the Batteries are now ordered to play on the Terra Nova to make that Attack more practicable 31th The Enemy appeared with about 11 Squadrons near our grand Guard but were soon repulsed and the following List was given in of the kill'd and wounded Of the English in the Assault under the Command of my Lord Cutts Lord Cutts wounded of Coulthorp's Regiment the Colonel a Captain 1 Subalteran and 101 Soldiers killed The Lieutenant Colonel 3
Forreign Ministers Nobility and Gentry making the greatest Court that has been seen at the Hague since the War 9th Orders were given for all things to be in a readiness to embark upon the first fair Wind the Convoy being arrived in the Goree under the Command of Sir Clousley Shovel 10th His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg arrived at the Hague this Evening and was conducted to Prince Maurice's House that of his Highness's Envoy being too little to entertain his Train His Majesty immediately after his Arrival waited on his Highness and were together above an hour Afterwards all the People of Quality the Pensioner c. from the States General and Mr. Abell our English Singing-Master amongst the rest diverted his Highness with some new Musick composed on the taking Namur 11th The Elector Dined with his Majesty and Persons of the first Rank The same day came the ill News of the Defeat of 8000 Imperialists by 40000 of the Turks near Lugâ— on the Borders of Transilvania after a whole days Defence with the greatest Courage and Bravery possible that General Veterani was mortally wounded and taken Prisoner with divers Officers and that General Truchses had retreated by the favour of the Night to Caransebes having lost about 2000 men and that 10000 of the Enemy were killed in this Action the Elector of Saxony being advanced within 3 days march of the Enemy 12th His Majecty and Elector of Brandenburg were splendedly Entertained by my Lord Villiers Plenipotentiary and Ambassadour from his Britanick Majesty to the States General And his Majesty designed to embark for England but the Wind shifting Westerly Orders were repeated for a general readiness when the Wind should present 13th My Lord Portland gave a Noble Entertainment to his Majesty his Electoral Highness c. and afterwards went abroad together to Surfleet a little mile from the Hague 14th His Majesty had an Account that the French Fleet which had been fitted out with so much diligence at Toulon were ordered to be disarmed except six who were ordered to take in 3 months Provisions and to Convoy some Merchant Ships from France to the Levant the Galleys to be disarmed likewise and sent back to Marseilles and that the Enemy upon the Marquis de Castanago's reinforcement were demolishing Palamos in Catalonia in order to retreat from that place before the Spaniards could get up with their Forces who now were Superiour to those of the Enemy and that Admiral Russel was sailed towards the Streights with the Fleet under his Command 15th Prince Vaudemont entertained his Majesty and the Elector of Brandenburg The same Evening arrived the Duke of Holstein Ploen from Flanders to acquaint his Majesty with the disposition of the Troops in those parts to prevent the Enemy from making any Incursion in the Frost and that Villeroy had detach'd through the Lines a Body of men towards Furnes with Pioneers as if they had a design upon Newport but that place being well provided it s supposed they only intend to make some addition to their Lines about Ipres 16th His Majesty was at the French Church and afterwards with the Elector made several Tours in the Forehoat according to his usual custom in his Coach after the manner of that call'd the Ring in Hide-Park Aftâ—â—wards had Advice of the Enemies Motion about Dinant upon which his Majesty ordered all the Officers to return to their respective Posts from the Hague 17th His Majesty with the Elector of Brandenburg c. hunted a Hare and in the Evening supped together was afterwards a considerable time in private with his Highness and 't is said that Prince is to send 20000 men next Campaign to joyn the Allies in Flanders 18th The Wind came about to the Eastward and a good Gale but his Majesty's going on Board was retarded until Provisions could be sent to the Yachts His Majesty took leave of 〈◊〉 Highness and the States c. and ordered all his 〈◊〉 and Baggage on Board 19th At 8 in the morning his Majesty left the Hague and went to Oranju Polder where his Majesty went on â—â—â—rd his Yacht and about Noon sailed with a fair Wind and a fresh Gale being attended by Sir Clousley Shovel with a Squadron of English and Dutch Men of War 20th or 10th old Style with Day-light made the Foâ—â—laâ—d and about 10 in the Forenoon his Majesty landed at Mâ—rgâ—t after an extraordinary Passage and took Coach for Cantâ—â—â—â—â—y where his Majesty lay that Night at the Deanery 〈…〉 ed every where with multitudes of his good Subjects and received with all possible Demonstrations of Joy for his Majesty's safe Return after so much danger in Exposing his Royal Person on all Occasions during the Siege of Namur c. FINIS Barrels Tun.