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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49902	Memoirs of Emeric count Teckely in four books, wherein are related all the most considerable transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, from his birth, anno 1656, till after the Battel of Salankement, in the year 1691 / translated out of French.; Histoire d'Emeric, comte de Tekeli. English	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1693 (1693)	Wing L822; ESTC R39725	143,365	368

talkt of nothing but going into Winter-Quarters without attempting any thing farther The King to diminish their fright entreated the Duke of Lorrain to take the right hand which was nearest the Enemy and marched his Troops to the left They encamped in this order while they expected the Foot to which Orders had been sent to make haste They arrived the next day and a resolution was taken to attacque the Turks the day following being the 9th of October The Christian Army was about Thirty thousand two thirds of which was Cavalry and the rest Infantry For the Turks they were but Fourteen thousand Spahies and Twelve hundred Janizaries The Christian Army advanced in the morning after having formed three Lines the two first of which were of Imperial Troops and the last of those of Poland one part of which nevertheless was in the first Lines on the right and left one commanded by the King the other by General Jablanowski The Turks appeared about Nine a Clock rang'd in Battle as if they had been in a condition to resist an Army twice as strong as theirs possibly not knowing the number of the Enemies or puffed up with the advantage they had gain'd over the Poles two days before Immediately they charg'd Jablanowski who was on the left Wing thinking to rout the Poles in the first Engagement But they being supported by the Imperialists the Turks turned all their Forces to that side without minding the right and the main Body which flank'd them and with which they were within half an hour inclos'd and put to the rout This is the nature of the Turks to act at first with an extream impetuosity without regarding danger but when their Shock is over and that they begin to be terrified they run into disorder and nothing is able to put new Courage into them As soon as they were once broken they ran with all speed to Barkan and the first that came pass'd the Bridge over the Danube with speed and broke it after them without staving for the rest of their Army Soon after the Fort was attacqued on all sides and was entred with Sword in hand the Turks who had not pass'd over the Bridge madly threw themselves into the Danube endeavouring to gain the other side either on Horse-back or by swiming instead of defending themselves As soon as it was understood that they might lodge all night at Barkan both Poles and Germans were desirous of it and for fear they should Quarrel Count Staremberg caused the Cermans to go out The Poles having observed the Heads of some of their Companions which the Turks had set upon the Palisadoes set fire to the Fort and burnt it down We are assured that Tekely during the action was not far from thence and that he drew near to joyn the Turks by the Viziers order but having seen what had passed from the Neighbouring Mountains he went back as fast as he could If this be true we must avow that this Count ill ferv'd them who had given him the Title of Prince of Hungary In the mean while if before he acted weakly for them for fear he should make them too powerful it was time to assist them with all his Forces lest he with them should be driven out of Hungary However it were whether through weakness or ill politicks the Malecontents did not do what they should have done on this and other occasions After the taking the Fort of Barkan it was found that this Post being commanded by the Castle of Gran was of no use towards the Seige of that Town and that there wanted time to put it into a condition of defence the Palisadoes having been burnt Therefore they abandoned it and the Duke of Lorrain judged that it would not be difficult to pass the Danube a little higher over against the two Isles which he designed to do an hours march above Gran. Order was given to the Governour of Comorra to send the Bridge of Boats which was before that place to serve on this occasion The King of Poland had been of a contray Opinion but the Duke of Lorrain so strongly represented to him both the facility of the Enterprize and the dishonour it would be for the Christians to end the Campaign without having drawn any advantage from the consternation which they had cast among the Enemies by the Victories which they had newly gain'd that the King at last consented to stay and cover the Siege continuing encamped on the side of Barkan While they were at these terms Count Humanai comes with some Commanders of the Malecontents into the Camp of the King of Poland to entreat Audience of him He grants it them and after some Complements they tell him they were very sorry to see Humgary covered with Trops of Turks and Tartars as it had been and the Neighbouring Countries exposed to the danger of falling under the Turkish Domination but that they were not the cause that all these misfortunes with all their Consequences ought to be attributed to them who had advised the Emperor to violate all the Laws and all the Priviledges of Hungary to have occasion to pillage it without his knowledge and the goods of those who should oppose them while none were able to demand justice against them that it ought not to be thought strange that the Nobility and People of Hungary had desired the Conservation of their Priviledges with as much Ardour as strangers had laboured to take them away That it were unjust to exact from them that they should see all their Laws overturned and their Goods and Families become a prey and sport to the Germans without stirring That they had a thousand times carried their Complaints to His Imperial Majesty that they always found him prejudiced against them by the great credit which they had who look on Hungary as an assured Pillage if they could introduce an Arbitrary Government That if not obtaining any satisfaction from his Majesties Council some of the Nobility had taken unlawful ways to prevent the ruine of their Countrey this fault would be at least as pardonable as the Pillages and Violences of strangers That also the greatest part did not at the beginning enter into any Conspiracy but that the Enemies of the Realm had with joy taken advantage of the faults of some few that they might treat as Rebels all who had any thing to lose and seize on their goods this strange co●nduct has oblig'd a great number to d●part part from them That as to be accused and have an Estate was the same thing as to be Condemned to Death or at least to lose all that one had Despair had put in Arms the People who demanded nothing but to live in Peace obeying the Emperor and the Laws that in pursuance thereof the Emperors evil Counsellors had carried him to change the whole form of the Government without having any regard to Priviledges of which they who remained within Obedience ought not to have been despoiled by

into Themiswear but also seize upon one part of Transilvania which was weary of the Imperialists and who would be glad to lay hold on that Opportunity to declare themselves against them He kept always some Correspondency in Hungary and Letters with Cyphers were intercepted written to some of his Friends which made the People have a suspicion that there was a Design under hand but it could not be discovered It happened in the same time that is to say in April that some Houses were set on fire at Onod and some other Towns of Hungary and Transilvania which was laid upon the Emissaries of the Malecontents although they could not prove it The Turks sent some Succours to Teckely who endeavoured to lead them to Themiswear but having been wounded as he was forcing a Passage he was forced to go back towards Walaquia exspecting the Turkish Army which was meeting together at Sophia in Bulgaria That caused the Imperialists to apply themselves about fortifying Belgrade as well as it could possibly seeing the Confusion and the Charges occasioned by the War the Emperour had upon the Rhine did put him in because the Turks are very bad Inginiers they thought indifferent Fortifications or rather some Reparations in the old ones would serve to defend the Place which has been the cause it has been lost since They blocking up Cavis a long while since which being very remote from the Frontiers of the subdued Countries suffered much for Want without being willing to surrender They betook themselves too to block up Great Waradin and they began by plundering and spoiling the Country round about the place to hinder the Garrison from having any means to subsist They expected to attaque by that means three Places at once the two Towns we have already spoken of and that of Themiswear because the Turks being a great way off could not carry Victuals thither but with great difficulty chiefly to Canisa which was the remotest of all but they could not hinder some Convoys from getting at several times into Themiswear and Waradin Prince Lewis of Baden went to Belgrade to command a little Body of an Army which was there with an intent to observe the Turks March and to watch the opportunities to do them some Damage The Imperial Troops being so divided those that were about Waradin did not find themselves strong enough to keep the Garrison within the Place for after having repelled it back twice with great difficulty they were wholly defeated at the third Sally and their Commander made a Prisoner five or six hundred of them remained dead upon the Spot the rest betook themselves to their Heels Teckely did the best he could on his side to raise the Blockade of Themiswear which felt already great Incommodities for not having been provided with Victuals But because he had been necessitated to pass the Danube and to retire into Servia lest he should be surrounded with the Imperial Troops which were on the other side of the Danube it was a hard matter to come over it again The Imperialists had garrisoned all the little Places which are along the River to hinder the Communication the Turks of Hungary had with those of Servia Teckely set upon one of those Towns called Novigrad upon the Frontiers of Bulgaria and made the Garrison of it Prisoners of War After the taking of that place three thousand Walaquians came to him in spite of General Heuster who lay upon the Frontiers of Walaquia with a Body of Troops to oppose to the Designs of the Count. The Walaquians feared extreamly least the Imperialists should enter into their Territories as they had done into those of the Transilvanians and use them as they pleas'd but they committed the same fault as the last had done that is that instead of acting openly for the Turks and making all their Endeavours to support that wavering Party they did but help them under-hand a Conduct that did but irritate the Emperour but not hinder him from quartering his Troops amongst them The Moldavians did also the same and found themselves at last exposed to the same Troubles altho' a little less by reason of their being afar off In the mean while Prince Lewis of Baden was advanced in July as far as the River Morave to observe the Turkish Army's March having had notice that that Army was stronger than his which consisted not of full thirty thousand Men that the Turks was fifty thousand he returned the same way and to increase his Army he got the Fortifications of many little Towns to be levelled to the Ground along the Danube and took out of them the Troops that were in Garrison therein The Turks having seen the Christian Army return towards Belgrade passed the River Morave to follow it but having had notice they had received some Reinforcement from Transilvania went back again over the River and retired themselves towards Nissa where they intrenched themselves Prince Lewis of Baden falled not to follow them but there fell such a quaintity of Rain that it was impossible to overcome the difficulty of the Ways and the Provisions having begun to grow scarce they were forced to return back towards the Bridges they had laid over the Morave hard by Passarowis The Army arrived there at the end of August and was soon followed by that of the Turks who believed the Christians did fly from them a second time The Infidels made a great Detachment of their Cavalry supported by some Janisaries to disturb the March of the Christian Army and endeavour to intercept the Convoys which would come from Semandria where the Magazines of the Christians were But that Detachment was defeated the 29 of August and betook it self to flight after having lost five or six hundred Men. The next day the Christian Army advanced to that of the Turks who expected them being regularly drawn in Battalia beyond a Wood. The Christians had crossed the Wood and their Infantry was drawn up in Battel-array in the Plain beyond it under the favour of a Mist when the Weather clearing up made the Turks perceive the Fault they had committed in letting almost all the Enemy's Army to pass without having made any Opposition Upon which they came forward to charge it with much Fury but having been received with great Valour they gave back and the Christian Army having advanced accordingly the Horse had room enough to inlarge their Wings and to assault the Infidels Presently they gave way every-where and they had been cut into pieces if the Ground had not been incumbered with Woods and Entrenchments beyond which the Turks did rally and which were to be forced one after another Having been repelled thus they retired into their Camp where it was thought they would hold out but they were so much affrighted that as soon as they perceived some Imperial Regiments appear they left it with all their Cannon and Ammunition and also the best part of their Baggage The Christian Army went to encamp