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enemy_n	captain_n	colonel_n	lieutenant_n	1,180	5	9.4650	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10592	Tvvo memorable relations The former, a relation of some late conflicts betweene the Portugals and the English at Surat in the East-Indies [sic] wherein the Portugals were vanquished, many slaine, and many taken prisoners. The later, the copie of a letter written from Bergen-vp-Zoom by an English hand; wherein is contained, a full perfit and true relation, of the late (great and admirable) defeat of the Spanish forces by water, by the Prince of Orange assisted with the English forces neere Bergen, the 12. of September, 1631.	H. H.	1631 (1631)	STC 20865; ESTC S110605	4,947	14

tell you of the franticke braine of a Pape or popish Priest that would doe wonders A Drum of ours being sent from our Army at Druynen to Antwerpe for prisoners some of the Enemy told him that there was a Pape that would bring their men into Bergin vp Zoom which indeed hee hath done and would carry fiue thousand men vnder for the morning tyde our men of warre comming vp againe yet with their often shooting from their battery and out of their Punts with their great Ordnance got cleare off them againe and so with that ebbe fell downe towards Bergen and beyond Rommerswall in the view of our Army and passing by three or foure shot was made from the South sconce of Bergens head to them so that one of them shot off the Rudder of one of their Sloopes which was taken and brought in But before I proceed any further I will shew you the list of their preparations and how strong they set forward from Antwerpe viz. Fifty great Sloopes Tenne great Punts wherein their Canon was planted Eighteene Pleyts or great Lighters which make in all seuenty eight sayle Foure hundred small Peeces of Ordnance as small Brasse and Leather Peeces Chambers and Murderers Foure thousand hand Granadoes and other fire workes Tenne halfe Canon Twenty French Canon or three quarter Canon carrying Bullets of 36. pound betweene sixe and seuen thousand Souldiers and Saylers Eleuen Barrells of money Great store of Ammunition us Powder Bullets and Match Whose chiefe Commanders were the Prince of Barbanzon and Count Iohn of Nassaw And victuals wine and beere for fourteene dayes Being thus prouided as is aforesaid and falling downe before Bergen at the first fight his Excellencie and we hearing such a shooting the night before and in this morning being Friday the 12. of this moneth knew no better but that they had beene our owne men which had beene put to a retreat not thinking the Enemy had beene so madde to vndertake so high an attempt as to come vnder our noses and to dare and braue our Army at noone day our Souldiers being on fire and their fingers itching at them and that onely the water parted vs his Excellency from the hill which is by his quarter calls for his perspectiue glasse discouers the Burgunn●an Crosle and their Sloopes and Punts full of Souldiers and being falne downe a little beneath Rommerswall drawing a grosse together and pointing as though they would land vpon the Dyke of Tertole sends my Lord Generall Morgan away in all expedition with the gards his owne Regiment and other Forces to secure that Towne of Tertole and the Iland thereof Proffering to land they cry'd to the Peasants which stood vpon the Dyke to desend it with their Armes that they would wash their hands in the Geufes blood but seeing Generall Morgan and his Colours making such haste to meete them they bethought themselues and fell backe againe into the streame But ere I conclude there happened two wonderfull markes of the prouidence of God Sailing one after another like a company of wild geele twelue or fourteen of their greatest Lighters wherein But the second mark of the admirable prouidence of God was this In the morning towards foure of the clocke the Lord sent a thicke mist which did so blind fold them as heretofore the enemies of Gods children were in the old Testament so that they could not see one another and Count Iohn in this mist ranne a ground put forth a light and the rest following thinking he had been in the streame were all like wise stranded with him When the mist dissolued they saw likewise our men of Warre which came from Holland and Zealand in the head of them which hindered them from recouering the Point Count Iohn the Prince of Barbanzon the Duke of Borneuille two or three more Commanders being strucken with an amazement at this sudden worke of God got into a little boate and stole away from them Count Iohn calling to them and saying Nessieurs à Dieu Cest mon d●rniers Euery man shift for himselfe which did much discourage and astonish their men as they themselues confessed So when that beganne to cleare vp our men saw the grosse of their punts and sloopes lying vpon the sands and mud and they by hundreds forsaking their sloopes and casting away their armes some swamme others waded vp to the neck to get to the Land to saue their liues crying for quarter to the Pesants which at the first did repulse them In the meane time Count Iohn gaue them the slip and got into Prince-land with those which hee had in his little sloope leauing his Sword his Leading-staffe his Horses and his Trumpetor and Laquyes behind him This morning being Saturday the 13. of September New stile all the Enemies sloops punts and lighters all their Ordnance and Ammunition Materials Mony and Victuals thirty Commanders as Gouernours Lieuten●nts Coronels Captaines and Abf●r●sses Dullicum the Gouernour of Groll which heretofore had brought them into the Velowe sauing the Prince of Barbanzon the Duke of B●rn●v●lle C●unt Iohn of Nass●w Barnesels sonne and some others that escap●d in the sloope with Count Iohn were taken and the numb●r of aboue 4000. souldiers and saylers droue like flocks of Cattle thorow our quarters and hath filled all our vacant places at Bergen vp Zoom Steen Bergen and Tertole with prisoners hauing lost as the Pesants in the Vosmare report who haue buried them drown'd and slaine aboue 800. of them our souldiers and sailers hauing made braue booties of arms money clothes and victuals and fifty fiue thousand pound st●rling brought in by the Admirall of Zealand which the States they say will giue as a reward to the Souldiers Saylers for their seruice And this night being the 15. of September after thanks giuing to God for this wonderful powerful worke of his Almighty and out-stretched arme wee haue resounded the glory of God from all our Townes and Forts with the report and thundering of a thousand Canon shot towards the faces of our Enemies to make them vnderstand in their Army which lies but fiue English miles from vs at Antwerpe and along the coast of Flaunders what God hath done for vs hoping shortly as victors after we haue bin nineteen or twenty weeks in the field to returne to Garrison And thus Sir to conclude I haue truly and briefly related vnto you this victory which God hath giuen vs without the losse of bloud and not one man of our Nation but a Seriant shot that you and the reft of Gods people may reioyce with vs because his deliuerances and his mercies to his people endure for euer and euer Amen Resting Your louing kinsman euer to command H. H. From our Army at Bergen vp Zoom the sixteenth of September 1631. new stile Postscript This precedent Relation comming from a Noble and worthy gentleman to his friend here in England was obtained to the Presse with much importunity being the most exact and impartiall discourse that hath come to ourknowledge concerning this action And which if wee durst manifest the Author would giue sufficient credit to the matter Such as it is wee promise shall bee the last wee intend to publish of this matter Farwell FINIS