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A46312	A journal of the Siege of Mentz under the command of his serene high[ness] the Duke of Lorrain, and the confederate princes. Who attack'd that important place on the 21. of June, and took it on the 31. of August, in the year, 1689. With all the bravery, courage, resolution and prudence, as ever has been shewn in any nation. Written in the German tongue by an eminent officer, and translated into English from a manuscript sent to His Majesty, King William, of Great Britain.		1689 (1689)	Wing J1106; ESTC R217106	25,971	35

they Assaulted the Town and enter'd the Suburbs endeavouring to Post themselves in the new Church of St. Jacob but they were vigorously repulsed with the loss of 350 Men. July 29. From the Lorrainers Attack we began to beat the Counterscarp and in a short time the Cannon was dismounted the Embracements were so ruin'd that the Enemy were forc'd to take in the said Pieces on the Neighbouring Bastion on the Right whence they fire at this present with 4 Cannons This Night we laboured hard on the new Redoubt and a new Line was traced on the Left the better to get into the Ditch near the Gate July 30. They fired extreamly at the Lorrainers Battery this Morning and by that means the Enemy were forc'd to remove further off their Pieces They made good use of their time however and after that ours had made their discharge they fired hard from the Bastion on the Right Hand on our Battery and our Approaches This Night the great Redoubt was put in a good condition on the left on which the Enemy Sallied about 60 strong but were soon repulsed with the loss of 9 Men amongst which was an Officer we reckon'd also that Night upon many kill'd and wounded Our Miners began this Night their Counter-mines two able Spanish Engineers were that Night kill'd July 31. We fired not so hard from the Lorrain's Battery as we had done the two precedent Days because of the heat on the contrary the Enemy fired more than before There was no great firing that Night on either side with the Cannon but the small Shot was the more fierce on the Electoral Attack while they were taking a new Post We lost divers of our Men in that Action who behav'd themselves bravely Count Reuss Major Sweinitz and Captain Altback were wounded A Dragoon of the Regiment Laude who surrender'd himself that Day told us that the Ground of the Glacis was fill'd with Bombs cover'd over with Boards with long Nails whose points were hid with earth and that all the angles of the Counterscarp were undermin'd August 1. Two Towers that were situated on the lest were beaten with our Cannon from the Battery of Lorrain all the Day long not without Success The Enemy did also fire his Cannon-on us from the Works This Night those of Hesse flung into the Town from beyond the Rhine divers Bombs The Enemy did also make a vigorous Sally on the Lorrain Approaches but were repulsed by the Lunenburgers who were that Night on the Guard we lost above 100 Men in this Action The Enemy drew a Line also of Communication to the Glacis We likewise did draw a great Parallel from the Redoubt on the Left to that on the Right August 2. The Cannon began to play again from the Lorrain Battery by break of Day on the Works both on the Right and Left which was continued till Night with good success there was also slung from Seven Morter-pieces divers Bombs into the Counterscarp About Noon our Cannon had beaten down the Roof and the best part of the top of the round Tower which is on the Left of the Cathedral whence our Men had received great damage The square Tower near St. Stephen's Church a little higher than the round Tower was for the most part ruin'd also The Ramparts and Works on the Right were also endamag'd We could plainly see the Enemy work on the Rampart so soon as we had discharg'd our Cannon and that they began to entrench themselves there The Parallel-Line was this Night finished and those of Hesse mounted Six Pieces more of 24 Pound Buliet there was nothing else remarkable that pass'd Neither did the Enemy fire but their Muskets and small Pieces ours did cast some Bombs and Carcasses into the Town so did those of Hesse from beyond the Rhine which cast divers Bombs in the Enemies out-works We had that Night Five killed and Twelve wounded on our side August 3. The Cannon play'd from the Battery of Lorrain that Day on the great Tower near the Gate Gais and on the Three Bastions St. Alexander St. Boniface and St. Martin to make a breach but we fired not so fiercely as the Day before The Enemy fired very vigorously all that Day with their Muskets and killed and wounded divers of our Men they also shot some Vollies of Cannon into the Camp and towards the Approaches but with no effect This Night ours encompass'd the Redoubt on the Left with Pallisadoes and finished the Ditch before the Battery The Cannon this Night was more quiet on both sides but the Enemy fired continually their Muskets we also cast some Bombs into the Town Colonel Erfa was wounded in the right arm by a piece of our Shells August 4. We continu'd this Day as we had done yesterday in battering the three foresaid Bastions and the great Tower near to the Gate Gau but not very much we had Two Deserters who told us that the Enemies were carrying on a Mine towards the Lorrain Battery This Night a great Parallel Line was drawn towards the Glacis From the Imperial Attack we cast all this Night long a great number of Bombs into the Town to disturb the Enemy in their labours there was also smart firing of small shot on both sides for all that the Lunenburgers that were that Night on the Guard in the Trenches had but one killed and Ten wounded August 5. We began again early in the Morning to batter from the Lorrain Battery the three Bastions and the above-mention'd Tower which was continu'd all Day till Night The French began about Noon to play off their great Cannon on our Batteries and Approaches from a little Fort which draws near to the top of the Castle they cast also divers Bombs by which we had above Forty dead and wounded We also did cast not only all Day but all Night also Bombs on the Fort and all other places where there was any prospect of indamaging the Enemies Works The small shot was also increas'd this Day on both sides more than ever A certain Deserter from the Town said that the Enemy had finish'd the Mine which they had began to conduct towards our Trench and Battery and that they were ready to store it with Powder Moreover at the Imperial Attack have been brought to perfection the Two new Lines which are about 25 Paces from the Glacis This Night has been trac'd the great Battery at the Electoral Attack which contains 887 Paces in its Circumference and which is to be mounted with 36 Pieces of large Bores This Battery is made with two inward Angles in that place which is advanc'd before the last place of Arms. The middle of the Battery beats on the Ravelin of the Citadel our Cannon is to batter in Flank and Front the Enemies Defences which answer to our Attack after having perfected a Line of Traverse with double Bastions to cover our Left Flank we began to open a Ditch and to raise higher the Battery The

a little another way also We began to raise a Battery The Enemy fired furiously all the Night long the loss of our Men amounted to 28 kill'd and wounded The Enemy set fire themselves to an House that was near the Gate The Saxons Bridge of Boats was finished that day That Night we began again to work at the Electoral Attack The Elector of Bavaria pass'd the whole Night in the Trenches with a design of posting himself near an House at 8 paces distant from the Charter-House which till then had been the place of Arms those that were commanded for that design gave back a little perceiving the Enemy to advance in great numbers towards them which caused some confusion so that our own Men began to shoot from the Approaches on those that were Commanded His Electoral Highness of Bavaria and the two Camp Marshals Caprara and Flemming and General Stenan got off luckily without being wounded after they had a long time receiv'd the Enemies and our own shot Some days since a certain Captain was seis'd who is a French Engineer who endeavour'd to get into the Town whose Name is _____ Cormaellan of Mount Royal. July 20 and 21. These two Nights the Trenches were very much advanc'd at the Electoral Attack They were advanc'd to 300 paces of the Counterscarp There were the first Night 60 kill'd and wounded and the last about 50. We continu'd to work at the Battery on the Lorrainer's side it is to be mounted with 30 Cannons The Trenches were enlarg'd and the Lines were carried on both on the Right and the Left to make a larger Front before the Town by that we draw nearer to the point of the Counterscarp from which we have yet 150 paces distant These two Nights there were reckoned about 40 kill'd and wounded The Enemy as he was wont did continually sire both his great and small Shot towards both the Attacks They fire not so furiously now on the side of the Champion there were for divers Nights together some Deserters of our Camp that went into the City July 22. Three French Officers stole at open day from our Camp into the Town The work of the Trenches was a little retarded this Night at both the Attacks through the violent Rain which fell however the labour of the two precedent Nights were accomplished at the Electoral Attack and at the Lorrainers Attack there was a little work done at the great Battery The first Night we had about Nine kill'd and wounded and the last Night about Fourteen Those of Hesse did cast all the Night long from the other side of the Rhine Bombs in the Town out of 4 Mortar-pieces The Enemy gave that Night a Sign in kindling a Fire on the great Tower we conjectur'd it was to give Duras notice of the Three Officers getting in which were believ'd to be considerable Persons This day we had a Deserter from the Town who was a Lorrainer by Birth who confirm'd the relation which the others had given viz. that the Enemy had resolv'd to defend themselves to the last extremity that they had made divers Mines which are all discover'd that they wanted nothing that Wine was brought in abundance to the Souldiers even on the Ramparts that there were always Six Battalions on the Guard. It has been concluded at the Electoral Attack that every day 3500 Men shall serve in the Trenches of which his Electoral Highness of Saxony furnishes a little more than the three fifth parts At the Lorrainers Attack 4000 ought to be there every day which is regulated in this manner That the Imperialists shall furnish every third day 5000 Men the Lunenburgers 4000 and the Hessians 3000 of which those that are design'd for the Lorrainers Attack incamp already on this side the Rhine The greatest part of the Generals believe that the great Battery will not be ready in 8 days time yet A French Party of about 400 Foot has been seen not far from Bingen it is thought that they seek to post themselves in the Neighbourhood to incommode our Forragers July 23. We advanc'd but little that day by reason of a great Rain At the Elector's Attack the Trenches were carried on a little and the Trevaux were more secur'd Some Lines also were carried on at the Attack of Lorrain on the Right and Left to give a larger Front they work also on the Battery and on the Ditch we had in the Lines one killed and three wounded and at the Battery two killed and five wounded July 24. Two French Officers were kill'd out of the Camp that designed to get into the Town Five more were pursued but could not be taken a Party of the Enemies of 300 Men on Horse-back were seen on Creutzenach-Road A Citizen who had been sent by the Governour of the Town with Letters to the Marshal of Duras brought them to the Duke of Lorrain the most secret Letters were writ in Characters conceal'd in a Brass Button which button'd up his Breeches their Contents are not yet known there being no body found in the Army that can unravel them This Night at the Electoral Attack the Trenches were carried on towards the Left of the Citadel with very little loss two small Pieces were mounted also with which the Enemies Horse-Guard was gall'd which upon that retir'd into the Town The Enemy did Pallisado the small Works and those Ditches which they had in the Stadian Garden At the Lorrainers Attack a Line was drawn on the Right round the Works and there was much labouring about the great Battery also The Letters which have been found on the above-mentioned Citizen contain an Advice from the Marquess of Vxelles to the Marshal Duras That the Garrison is compos'd but of 6000 Men amongst which are numbred above 1800 sick and wounded and that the rest are extreamly fatigated resting neither Night nor Day so that he shall be forc'd to surrender the place to the Germans if he is not speedily reliev'd desiring after that the Marshal Duras to let him know with the soonest the Kings pleasure on that subject July 25. Another Line was traced on the Left we also work'd very hard at the Lorrainers Battery July 26 Fifteen large Cannon were plac'd on the Lorrainers Battery and the said Battery was secur'd with Two Lines newly drawn July 28. Ten Pieces more were placed on the same Battery very large as also proportionably of Amunition The Pieces were plac'd in the Embracements and a new Redoubt was traced out on the Right 60 paces distant from the Foot of the Glacis Thirty Barrels of Powder have been drawn out of two Mines which have been discover'd near the great Battery of the Imperialists by the means of a French Miner who made his escape out of the place to come to us Our Army was a little lessen'd by a Detatchment of 6000 Horse which were sent towards Heidelberg under General Dunewald's Command This Day Marshal Duras came before Heidelberg with 1500 Men and at Night

according to the others Relations confirm that the continual Labour they were put to had forc'd them to do so That the Governour did incessantly Encourage the Garrison to a vigorous Desence assuring them that he would defend himself to the last extremity That there had been a noise in the Town that the Artillery of the Lorrain Attack was removing to the Electoral Attack because that we were not sufficiently provided with great Cannon to batter the Town That besides it had been spread about in the Town to put a stap to the Souldiers Desertion That the Deserters were very ill treated in the Camp so far as to refuse them Bread for their subsistence That they were rifled and ill treated and that they even put to death in the Camp all Persons that surrendred themselves there and that not one could yet get a free Passage nor avoid the Besiegers fury Upon this Report Major General Werner was commanded to cause all the Cannon of the Lorrain Battery to fire at the same time that those of the Electoral Attack should be discharged The Serenissime Duke of Lorrain having been inform'd of the false Rumours which the French Officers did spread abroad to affrighten the Souldiers thought fit to undeceive them of that false impression causing divers Bills to be writ which were by an invention shot into the Town which contain that all Deserters were to expect a kind Treatment and like unto that which was us'd towards those who had already pass'd into the Camp assuring them that far from ill treating those that would retire a free Passage was given them and wherewith to go forwards under good Passes M●●ster Colonel of the Dragoons of the Troops of the Wic Wurizbourg killed himself this morning in his Bed accidentally touching one of his Pistols which he had laid by him This night 16 Pieces more of Cannon of large bore have been mounted at the Electoral Attack on the great Battery opening at the same time the Embrasings The Work at the Lorrain Attack has not been advanc'd any further 15 Souldiers were killed and 23 wounded August 18. We began at six this morning to batter with 36 Pieces of Cannon from the Electoral's great Battery the high Defences of the Town and Citandel in the presence of his Electoral Highness of Bavaria and of many other Generals and divers Bombs have been also cast into it which has obliged the Enemy to draw back their Cannon This was immediately followed at the Lorrain Battery by the Discharge of 48 Pieces of Cannon and of 12 Mortar-pieces which were repeated divers times to let the Enemy know we wanted no Artillery We had begun the night before to fire furiously from the same Attack and to cast a great number of Bombs and Carcasses into the City The Deserters who came in to day relate that they saw some of the Bills that had been shot into the City that the hopes of a good Treatment which was promis'd to them in it had made them take this Resolution of coming and that divers others would follow their Examples There was drawn this night at the Electoral Attack the Parallel Lines of Comm●nication from the two last Redoubts to the Battery where we have begun to make a new place of Arms. The Works are advanced along the Glacis at the Lorrain Attack And whereas the Enemy have set up a Row of Pallisado's behind the Patrapet of the Counterscarp and that they have gathered together a great heap of Sythes and of other Instruments on the left of the Lorrain Trenches on the apprehension that the Besieged had that we should attack the covert way it has been thought fit to leave there that Battalion which was there in reserve this day In the mean time our Miners are day and night busied in discovering the Enemies Furnaces and to make some in those places where we design'd to open There was this day nine killed and 21 wounded in the Works This day about Noon we learnt that the French had made themselves Masters of Cocheim where they had made about 600 Prisoners of War being the 15th of this month St. Lewis his Day after that the Besieged had sustained the fourth Assault August 19. They continued this day to fire all their Cannon from the two Attacks to ruine the Enemy's Defences which was not without effect They raised a little Fort at the Electoral Attack from the other side of the Bridge a little higher than the Island They began also that night to raise another Battery the Work of which cost us many mens lives and several wounded The Count of Reus Major General of the Saxons found a great many wounded and Captain Wedel with a Lieutenant and divers others killed They made Platforms at the Lorrain Attack near to all the Regiments who were be fore the Front of the Lines of Circumvallation to plant their Field-pieces there and to hinder by that the Surprise of the Enemies who according to the News that was spread ought to be on their March to relieve the City This day we met with two Deserters who yet could give no intelligence but that the Enemy had relieved the Guard of Horse who till this present time had been posted at the Gallows because they had received very great Damage from the Redoubt which was on the left side of the Trenches of Lorrain that they could not advance any further on the Work. The Enemy had that night sprung a Mine at the Lorrain Attack which had no great effect but only that it had ruined some paces of the Gallery which did lead to our Mine burying two men with it who were found there and sprung also a Furnace on our left side under our Gallery nigh 18 feet making two of our Mines useless yet that did not hinder to carry on our Works nor kept us from working at four places of the Sap. Another Deserter came to the Camp who did us better Service than the other two observing that one had brought a Peasant to speak to an Officer of the Guard before the Tent of his Highness the Duke of Lorrain he discovered that he was a man who carried all the Intelligence from without into the place and that he carried it back to the Mareshal Duras and others all that was fit to be known He was presently seized and they found that he had some Letters about him writ in Cyphers and having confess'd his Crime there was a Report that he should be empaled alive after the Hungarian manner to be made an Example to those who should dare to undertake so dangerous an Enterprise There will be to morrow 104 pieces of Cannon mounted on the Battery against the City besides Mortar Pieces August 20. The last night the Saxons began to raise a new Battery to mount there 12 Cartouches which they had received from their own Country August 21. A Deserter reported to the Duke of Lorrain and to the Elector of Bavaria that there was great