Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	raise_v	siege_n	1,147	5	9.1227	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60048	A short and strange relation of some part of the life of Tafiletta the great conqueror and emperor of Barbary by one that hath lately been in His Majesties service in that country.	One that hath lately been in His Majesties service in that country.	1669 (1669)	Wing S3552; ESTC R28759	11,355	30

Dominion But threatned in case of a refusal to Sacrifice his Son to his resentment and further to proceed as far as his good Fortune would give him leave The Prince thought it no Policy to anger such a Powerful Enemy Therefore he speedily obeyed and sent his fair Daughter that was Married to the Conqueror who kept not his Word punctually with his Father-in-law For since it is not known upon what Pretence he hath surprized the Town of Bousema when the Prince had Disbanded his Forces He then seised upon the place almost empty of Inhabitants enriched his Soldiers and filled his own Purse with the Princes Gold And because of the Relation he restored him to his former Command upon Condition to pay homage unto him and his Successors At that time the Prince of Bousema had sent an Embassador to my Lord Bellasys then Governor of His Majesties Garrison and City of Tangiers to desire his Excellency That there might be a fair Correspondency between those two Sea-port-Towns My Lord whose chief care all the time of his Government was to advance the Honour of His Majesty the Interest of the Nation and of that City willingly accepted of the Princes Proposals and sent the Moore back in a Catch that waited upon the Garrison with several of our Men in another Boat to attend him At their Arrival at Bousema they found the Prince distressed with the unexpected coming of Tafiletta's Army and the Moores hasting out of the Town to some stronger Retreate Tafiletta having performed this Expedition with wonderful success he Marched next with 30 thousand Men against Gayland and Bembouqua otherwise called the Santo The latter is a Man that pretended to the strictest Sect of the Mahumetans he was King of Fez hearing of his Enemies approaches he put himself in a posture of defence and raised a considerable Army which in the first encounter was routed and he himself hardly escaped with life The City of Fez is scituate in the middle of the Kingdom It hath the report of being strong and able to bear a Siege It is adorned with many stately Monuments of Antiquity Before this City the Conqueror sits down with his Army surrounds the Walls with his Tents with Horse and Foot and sends to Command them to give up the Keyes The Besieged at first did appear Resolved to resist his Power and defend their City but when the Multitude began to complain of want the Grandees called for a Parley and yielded themselves to Tafiletta's good Fortune with their City The whole Kingdom followed the example of the Metropolis onely some few Mountains near the Sea and the Town of Saley remained under the Government of the former Prince until Tafiletta had leasure to minde them Gayland seeing his Neighbours Country in a Flame took the Alarum he had called together about 3000 of his choise Horsemen and was then lying near Alcazar in those unhappy Fields that did once swim in Christian Blood and that are so renowned for the Slaughter of Don Sebastians Army and the Death of the 3 Kings that there ended their Quarrel with their Lives together in the same place Gayland hath left the Carcasses of his best Souldiers To bring to pass this Defeat Tafiletta came with all speed with a small party of his Army to Gayland's Countrey that is almost an Isthmus A small neck of Land A continued Mountain joyns it to the Continent There is one narrow Passage thorow which the Conquerour was to enter into Suz before he could deal with his Enemy This was guarded with a strong party of Musquetiers commanded by One whom Gayland thought faithful to his interest Tafiletta presents himself before the Pass and with some Spanish Pistoles in his hand opens a way without the loss of a man The Passage he secures with a strong body of horse and foot that it might favour his retreat in case he should lose the day And then proceeds on his Journey to seek Gayland that lay in a wonderful security and dreamt not of the danger that threatned him There was one difficulty more to overcome which was not the least that Tafiletta had met withal Gayland was then attended by a body of Horse esteemed invincible by the Moores to hazard a Battel upon equal terms with such Artists in war in an Enemies Countrey and with a small party was open madness Therefore when the Lions Paw could not prevail he employes the Foxes Pate He labors to conceal his sudden Arrival from Gayland and to take the advantage of his negligence that so he might come by the victory without the hazard of his men Amongst Tafiletta's Followers there was an old Friend of Gayland s whose dwelling was in the Kingdom of Fez this man the Conquerour thinks fit for his purpose he instructs him with his design and furnishes him with a few Camels laden with the Commodities of the Countrey This man journeys towards Tituan or some other place of note and in his way passes by Gayland's Camp who was desirous to hear what passed beyond the Mountains and what was become of Tafiletta The stranger told him that he was about fourty Leagues off with his whole Army marching against a little Prince near the Kingdom of Fez. Upon this false news he thought to disband his Army until another time and left them without Discipline or Guard wrapt in their Alhags the men lying upon the ground without order that night and their horses feeding in the pastures He little thought of the mischief that was prepared for him Tafiletta having thus stollen into the Countrey followed Gayland's apostate Friend by secret wayes and came almost at the same time undiscovered near Alcazar In the Evening he observed the countenance of Gayland's Army from some high Wood in the which he expected the time of the night fit for his purpose Their wandring condition without order encouraged him in the execution of his design which he performed in the dead time of the night Gayland's m●n were almost all dead before he could perceive the execution Some were awakened with the groans of their fellows These laboured to recover their horses and being lead on by the great and famous Moukadem of that Countrey the second son of the Shack of Angiers they made some resistance and disputed with Tafiletta for the victory Gayland seeing himself betrayed and his men either kill'd or ready to fly away for the safety of their own lives After he had received two slight wounds the one in his cheek the other in his side and lost a horse that was killed under him mounted speedily upon one that waited for him passed by Alcazar where he took his last farewell of two of his Wives and then saved himself into Arzilla having left the strength of his Countrey dead upon the ground with their great Captain who had three horses kill'd under him before he was overcome Not long before this defeat Gayland foreseeing the design of Tafiletta and being jealous