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A46313	A Journal of the Venetian campaigne, A.D. 1687, under the conduct of the Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark, [brace] [brace] Providitor Gen. Cornaro, General Venieri, &c. translated from the Italian original, sent from Venice, and printed by order of the most serene republick.		1688 (1688)	Wing J1107; ESTC R39041	35,865	54

that manner that they took up two Miles in Front with a Battery of two pieces of Cannon In the Night by the favour of the Darkness the most Excellent Sanudo with a Squadron of Eight slender Gallies pass'd within the Castles on purpose to destroy the Barks to the end the Turks might be depriv'd of the Opportunity of transporting their Soldiers out of Grecia into Morea The 23d the Galeasses and one Pinnace got within Musket shot of the Face of the Battery and in less than Three Hours with their prow-Cannons beat it down and in many places ruin'd their Trenches and with another Pinnace that shot Stones drave the Turks quite from their post The 24th this Morning which was St. Christins day beginning their March again by Break of Day in regard they had a long way to go they March'd but slowly and keeping an exact Order at what time General Coningsmark shew'd his great Knowledge in Military Discipline The Enemy abandoning their Breast-work upon the Coast and leaving their Tents began their Approaches nearer and nearer to our Army making a shew of great Resolution but soon after turn'd their backs as if they intended to flee But the more uncertain their Motions were so much the less did we alter our March yet with an Ardent desire however to come to handy strokes At length after eighteen hours thus spent the Barbarians approached and began to Skirmish with a Batalian of the Oltramarine's Commanded by Colonel Ceclina at what time our Forces embodying and the Enemy approaching with all their Forces the Sign of Battel was given and the Christian Army prepar'd themselses for the so long experienc'd Tryal of their Valour The Turks fir'd very thick with their Muskets upon the Oltramarines which were upon the Right Wing and with their Swords in their hands made a bold Attaque upon their Rear But then the Oltramarines being bravely flank'd by the Frisian Horse of the Left Wing ply'd their Small-shot so nimbly that the Enemy slacken'd their Fury and were repuls'd with great loss Quitting therefore this Attaque they made another Assault upon the Brunswickers in Flank where intending to have broken in with their Swords in their hands they met with such a solid and vigorous resistance that being well mortify'd with the well order'd Volleys of the Muskets and seeing many of their Men fall dead upon the place after a close Fight of four hours maintain'd by our Men who upon all occasions were still succour'd by the Sclavonians and the Cavalry they betook themselves to an ignominious flight being valiantly pursu'd by the Oltramarines and by the Marquess Corbon with his Cavalry However General Coningsmark would not suffer ours to pursue the Enemy very far for fear of falling into any Embuscado and because he would not that the Army should break their Order So that the Turks making haste to their Tents pull'd up the greatest part at what time they in the Piazza of Patrass setting fire to a Magazine of Amunition joyn'd with the rest and leaving in a moment all that compass of Ground in our Possession they all disappear'd In this Fight singular was the Conrage and Experienc'd Conduct of General Coningsmark and the valorous Arm of the Prince of Turrena did great Execution who being joyned with the Marquess Corbon lead the Horse Nor did the Prince of Brunswick less generously behave himself who with his Troops was still in the hottest of the Action The Death of Colonel Ceclina shot in the Breast with a Musket-Bullet is univerfally lamented who being by Nation an Oltramarine tho' he had lost his Chief Commander understood so well with so much vigor to humble the furious Pride of the Muselmen Of whom there were Five hundred slain upon the place and 't is believ'd a great many more were kill'd in regard of the great number of Tents that were left for want of Owners We took five Pieces of Artilery besides two Pieces of Cannon which were found planted upon the shore within their Trenches when at the beginning of the Fight the General order'd the Volunteers to land on purpose to divert the Enemy On the other Side we had little loss in regard we kept the Enemy at a distance with our Muskets It added also to their greater fear for that the General in the heat of the Fight had caused a great number of the Seamen to land who possessing themselves of the Trench aforesaid found therein the two fore-mentioned Brass Pieces and two others at a little distance from thence which form'd the Battery already spoken of besides which the Enemy left behind them six Field-Pieces which they lost in the Conflict Great was the number of the Ottoman Colours which the Christians brought away as Trophies of their Valor and that which added to the Glory of their Triumph was their taking of three Ensigns with Tayles besides a very rich Standard guilded with which the Fringe and Blazon were evident Signs of the Basha-Generalship of which the Serasquier is depriv'd His Flight together with that of the Army was immediately followed by the Flight of their other Party at Rumelia and the abandoning their Tents And the Night after his Excellency understanding that the Turks had left the Castle of the Morea he turn'd the Prows of his Galleys and he no sooner came in sight of the place but he saw some part of the Wall toward the Sea on Greece side blown up by Gun-Powder and the Castle left under the Dominion of the Venetians with forty Pieces of Cannon The General for all this would not suffer his wonted heat for the Good of his Country and Christendem to cool but held on his Voyage for Lepanto to make the advantage of his good Fortune during this Consternation of the Turk And indeed the Favour of Heaven prosper'd his zealous Designs for the Barbarians being still more and more seiz'd with Panick-Terror could not endure the sight of our Vessels so that seeking their safety in other places they retreated and left to the Victorious Venetians the Piazza itself And thus to the great wonder of every one this most Signal Victory was obtained through the Favor of the God of Hosts with the most Glorious Conquest of four Fortresses in the turning round of one Sun By which the Public gain'd One hundred and sixty Pieces of Cannon almost all Brass besides a great quantity of Provisions and Warlike Amunition together with fourteen Pyrate Barks So that the most Serene Republic now Commands a most Delicious Fertile and Spacious Gulph a Spacious and Rich Country to the incredible Contempt and Loss of the Persecutors of the Holy Religion and the Christian Faith. Carlo Pisani Captain of the condemn'd Persons is also designed by His Excellency to take all the Turkish Vessels which he can find in the vast Gulph of Lepanto So that after such mature and timely Provisions we have no reason but to promise ourselves from the Assistance of God for the future Progresses of

with a stout Body of Horse and Foot to visit the Isthmus or Neck of Land between the Ionian and Egean Sea and which joyns the Morea to the Continent and march'd as far as the footsteps of the Ancient Walls which closed up the same made by the Grecian Emperor in the year 1413. and demolish'd afterwards by Armurath the Second in the year 1424. afterwards re-edifi'd by the Captain General Luigi Loredano who landed the Soldiers of his Fleet under the Command of Bertaldo D' Este by means of whose laborious Toil as the Historians testifie and the assistance of Eighty thousand Workmen in fifteen days they sinish'd the whole Work in the year 1463. fortifi'd with One hunderd thirty six Towers and Three Motes now dismantled and levell'd so that no footsteps thereof remain in many places He also view'd the Fortress call'd Acro-Corinto seated in a place of great advantage which tho' it be plac'd upon a very high Hill is nevertheless furnish'd with Wells of excellent Water as also the Fountain Pyrene so much celebrated by Homer The importance of the Place and the easiness of it to be made Tenable induc'd him to believe that it was of necessity to be provided with all things necessary both for Defence and Offence and requisite Provisions of Victuals and Anzolo Michiel a Gentleman of Discretion Abilities and Vertue was design'd extraordinary Proveditor for that place being also resolv'd not to let slip the remaining part of the Season without making some other progress in his Conquests which will fall either upon Negroponte or Athens yet not so but that he will take his Measures from the Effects of the Season and the variety of the Weather which he may meet with in the Seas of the Archipelago and to facilitate his Voyage the Foot and Horse shall be left at Cortuno which shall afterwards be carry'd to the Coasts of the Egean from the other part of the Isthmus Signor Daniel Venier dy'd of an Inflammation which kill'd him in few days and Peter Marcello was conditionally order'd to Command his Galley The Knight Sir Cittadella a Padouan comes under Conduct being sent to be Governor of Corinth which place will be well Garrison'd Many Families in Rumelia desirous to pass into the Morea to withdraw themselves from subjection to the Turks have made their Applications by their Commissioners to the Captain General and having had audience several Barks and some Gallies have heen order'd for their Transportation There is great sollicitation made to remove with the Fleet and make a long Voyage to the other streight of the Egean so to proceed upon other designs which are agreed upon to advance the Fame of the Arms of the most Serene Republic From the Venetian Fleet under Castle Novo in Dalmatia September 16. 1687. THis most Serene Republic makes it her Business to mind the Security and Prosperity of all Christendom and the Holy League having generously resolv'd to purge the Adriatick Sea of that pestilent Rabble of Corsaires of Castel Novo and other adjacent Places which with their Barks and Pyracies they render impassible and all the Neighbouring Coasts unsecure for Trade To which purpose at the vast expence of her own Treasures she has rais'd a strong Army in Dalmatia under the Command of his Excellency Girolamo Cornaro For that those Places being attack'd and reduc'd which serve as a Sanctuary and Security to those Enemies of the Christian Name the Triumphant Standard of the Cross will be gloriously advanc'd by the zealous Valour of the Venetian Thereupon an Enterprize so important being concluded upon it was agreed that the Enemy should be attack'd where-ever he should be found Nor was the Sieur Janco second to any a Person of great Courage and much dreaded by the Turks who setting out of Spalatro in company of his Morlacks and understanding that in the Plains of Dunno beyond Cettina about Three hundred Turks were got together went resolutely to fight them and the Fray being begun having himself with his Cutlace laid a Turk sprawling upon the ground believ'd him dead but the other having a Pistol in his hand let fly at the Victor and shot him However there were kill'd and taken fifty of the Turks by the Morlacks with the loss of only two Men all their Tents and Baggage were also taken His Excellency therefore being resolv'd upon his intended Design took shipping with his whole Army and after contrary Winds which kept our Fleet thirteen days at Sea not without some detriment to the Horse for want of Water and Forrage our Fleet arriv'd with a propitious Wind the second of September within the Roses over against Castle Novo which to the number of a hundred and thirty or more Sail made such a Majestic shew of it self which consider'd together with the Courage of those abroad strook no ordinary Terror into the Turks Which was by them made the more manifest for that they let us sile off our Men within Cannon shot without so much as firing one Gun at us The next day about Six a Clock our Army landed not above two Miles from the Fortress and then advancing slowly in good Order toward the same Fortress and about a Mile from the same they found some Opposition from the Turks who being got to the top of a little Hill and posted in a Church call'd by the name of Santa Veneranda occasion'd a bloody Skirmish Presently the General dispatch'd away Orders to the Auxiliaries to advance with the Gallies within Cannon shot and to bring their Guns to bear upon the Enemy by that means to disloge them and to hasten their own landing to reinforce our Men. At the same Instant the General mounting a Horseback with all the Cavalry consisting of Four hundred able stout Soldiers commanded by the most Illustrious Giovanni Loredano appointed by his Excellency Proveditor of the Cavalry in the Camp and ordering the Oltramarine Militia to land threw himself personally together with them into the Place of the Conflict which lasted for two hours with great obstinacy on the Turks side But at length the Auxilaries being landed under the protection of the continual firing of the great Guns from the Gallies and our new Reinforcements being discern'd by the Turks who surrounded his Excellency in very good Order the Enemy retir'd toward the place continually skirmishing and firing upon our Men who having possess'd themselves of the most advantageous Posts of the said Church the Marquess of Borro Serjeant Major of Battalia went in the Night time to take a view of an advantageous Post in a House within Cannon shot of the lower City where our Banditti of Abruzzo being posted and our paid Foot being entrench'd a little behind together with the Auxiliaries his Excellency commanded two of our Gallies commanded by Ludovic Balbi and Benetto Zorzi Querini to take two small Vessels grappl'd together and bring them within shot of the City which was done not without great difficulty by reason of the