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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
A38922	An Exact journal of the siege of Namur giving a particular account of the several sallies and attacks, and other most remarkable passages from the first investing of the place : together with the articles of capitulation, both for surrendring the city and castle.		1695 (1695)	Wing E3648; ESTC R8666	18,437	34

that Place the Regiments of Ingolsby Sanderson Lowder and Maitland he drew off the rest by break of Day to the First Parade The Fury and Heat of this Action lasted about Two Hours in which time the Besiegers possessed themselves of the Enemies Works notwithstanding they were defended by such considerable Numbers of Resolute Men. In this Bloody Action the Assailants both Officers and Soldiers signaliz'd themselves to that degree that 't was no wonder that they who did more than Men could be thought to do should be superior and victorious over those who did no more than only what Men could do The chief Officers Slain and Wounded were Colonel Robinson Kill'd Lieutenant Colonel How and Lieutenant Colonel Davis Wounded of the First Regiment of Guards In the Coldstream Guards Colonel Matthews Lieutenant Colonel Edgeworth and Leiutenant Colonel Jones Wounded Pierce and Morison Lieutenant Collonels taken Prisoners Of the Scotch Guards Lieutenant Colonel John Hamilton wounded Of the Dutch Guards Goudaker and Panute Lieutenant Colonels and Major Hetzler wounded Of the Royal Regiment Major Mac Ilvain Slain and the Lord George Hamilton Wounded Of Colonel Ingolsby's Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Sabin Wounded besides several Captains Lieutenants and Ensigns and others Kill'd and Wounded and the whole Loss of Private Soldiers according to the Account given in by the several Colonels was 308 Slain and 604 Wounded And as for the Enemy they had no less than 1600 Kill'd and Wounded by the Information of the Deserters In this Interim Villeroy had laid a Design to have surpriz'd Nieuport by means of a Correspondence which he held with a Person who had undertaken to deliver the Sluces into his Hands But the Prince of Vaudemont having an inkling of it sent immediate Orders to Lieutenant General Bellasis whom he had detach'd some Days before toward Bruges with Twelve Battalions to march with all speed toward the Canal and dispute the Passage with the Enemy which he did the next Night The French knowing nothing of this continu'd their March toward the Canal but seeing Twelve Battalions posted on the other side they were so astonished that they desisted from their Design and retreated faster than they came fearing to be swallow'd up by the Waters of the Sluces which the Governor had open'd upon their Approach And as for the Traytor finding himself disappointed he made his Escape to Furnes The 25th at Night the Besiegers posted themselves at the Foot of the Redoubt of Pallart and about Midnight set their Miners to work Which enforc'd the Enemy that defended it to surrender at discretion by break of Day being in all Six and Fifty Men among whom were a Captain an Engineer Two Lieutenants and an Ensign Upon the 27th of July in the Morning his Majesty having resolv'd that an Attack should be made upon the First Counterscarp of the Town came into the Trenches himself and after he had given ample and requisite Orders more particularly that all the Batteries as well of the Great Guns as Mortars should play without intermission upon the Faces of the Bastion before St. Nicholas's Gate and the front of the Counterguard that lay upon the Left Hand of the Ravelin near the Meuse return'd to his Quarters In the Afternoon he went again into the Trenches and about Five a Clock in the Afternoon the Attack began The English march'd from the Head of the Trenches on the Right Hand and advanc'd to the first Counterscarp that covers the Sluces All the while the Enemy fir'd thick and furiously and sprang Three or Four small Mines fill'd with Bombs upon the Glacis nevertheless the Assailants made themselves Masters of the Counterscarp and while they drave the Enemy from their Defences the Besiegers made a Lodgment behind 'em upon the Glacis of the Counterscarp before mention'd At the same time the Dutch march'd upon the Left Hand and advancing along the Meuse fell upon the Enemy who defended the First and Second Counterscarp in Flank and in less than a Quarter of an Hour drove the Besieged out of the first Counterscarp from one end to the other Which done the Assailants presently began to lodge themselves with Wool-sacks Gabions and Fascines some of which unfortunately taking Fire burnt a part of the Lodgment made by the English to secure their Left against the Counterguard of St. Rocque's Bastion However the English defenceless as they were maintain'd their Ground and kept the Enemy that were posted within the said Counterguard in play till they had made a new Lodgment behind the First which was at length put out In the mean time the Dutch perceiving that the Enemies firing from the Counterguard very much gall'd the English mounted the Breach of the Counterscarp next the Meuse plying the and Enemy with their Granado's lodg'd themselves upon the Breach of the Counterscarp as the English had done on the Counterscarp it self by which means they kept all the first Counterscarp from the Meuse to the Inundation The Enemy all this while kept firing continually with Five or Six Pieces of Canon several of the Bullets of which flew near the Place where the King stood and one of 'em kill'd Mr. Godfrey and took off the Arm of Lieutenant Collonel d' Eck. Of the Besiegers between Three and Four Hundred Men were Kill'd and Wounded in this Action Nor could the Enemies Loss but be considerable in regard that few of their Men who were posted in the first Counterscarp escap'd with their Lives as also for that the Assailants Canon and Bombs and the small shot of their Infantry did great Execution At the same time the Elector of Bavaria attack'd and made himself Master of an Advanc'd Post of the Enemies between the Sambre and the Castle-Hill wherein were lodg'd about Four Hundred Men besides a Detachment to guard the Abby of Salsine and another House that stood near it Places both very proper for laying a Bridge over the Sambre and to facilitate the Attack of the Castle During this Action the Besieged Sally'd out of the Castle both Horse and Dragoons to second their Men but upon the Electors sending some Squadrons against 'em they presently retreated After these Two Attacks were over his Majesty order'd the Ditch of the Town to be drain'd to which purpose the Dam that kept in the Water was undermin'd and blown up Upon the 29th of July it was resolved that the Electors Men should the next Morning early attack the Enemies Lines and Retrenchments that secur'd all their New Works before the Castle between the Sambre and the Meuse And the Forces appointed for this piece of Service consisting of Bavarians Brandenburghers and other Foreign Troops were order'd to move soon after it was dark and during the Obscurity of the Night to advance so near the Enemies Trenches as possibly they could without being discover'd Upon the 30th as soon as Day was broke the Signals being given the Assaylants fell on in Three several Places The Assent of the Hill proved somewhat

with great Obstinacy to dislodge them Insomuch that when most of the Officers of the Bavarian Guards were kill'd and Wounded and that the other Regiments had suffered great Damage the Enemy still firing with a more than ordinary Resolution the English who had quitted the Terra Nova as not being able to do any good on that side seconded the Bavarians and Spaniards under the Command of the Lord Cutts who at the same time having order'd a Lieutenant of Colonel Mackay's Regiment with 30 Men to break through the Palisados and attack a Battery of the Enemies the Lieutenant executed his Orders with that undaunted Bravery that he turn'd Seven of the Enemies Canon against themselves and at the same instant secur'd some of their Mines by which means the English and Bavarians planted their Colours upon the Palisados and made a good Lodgment In the mean time M. Gen. la Cave with his Brandenburghers and M. Gen. Swering with his Dutch-men made each of them Two other Lodgments of which the Besiegers continu'd in possession and presently fell to work to improve them in order to another Assault and the Batteries were order'd to play afresh upon the Terra Nova to make the Breach wider and facilitate a 2d Attack In this Action the Loss that fell upon the Four English Regiments who made the Assault was as follows The Lord Cutts Wounded Nineteen Commission Officers kill'd and Fifty Four Wounded Private Soldiers 339. Slain outright 682 Wounded Volunteers Wounded Col. Windsor Mr. Thompson Mr. Stanhope Other Advice from His Majesties Camp at Ostin Sept. 1. N.S. gave a farther Account that during these Transactions the Enemy appear'd every Day in the Front of the Confedrates Line that on the Tuesday before they came with about 70 Squadrons to Boneff extending their Line from that Place to the Right Hand near Perwys Upon which his Majesty order'd the Confederate Army to move extending his Right Wing to Longchamp and his Left to St. Denis and leaving a Brigade of Masy to secure that Post The last of August they appear'd with about Eleven Squadrons near the Advanc'd Guard but were soon repuls'd The next day his Majesty having din'd Early and in the Afternoon being upon the Road returning to the Siege in order to give Directions for a second Attack of the Castle was met by an Adjutant sent by the D. of Bavaria to inform his Majesty that M. Bouflers and the Count de Guiscard had desir'd to Capitulate that they had offer'd at first to treat for Coehorn Fort alone but that being refus'd 'em by the Elector they had agreed to capitulate for the whole Thereupon so soon as his Majesty was arriv'd Hostages were exchang'd and Proposals brought from the Castle to the Salsine the Enemy insisted at first that they might have Ten Days time to expect Succour but that was absolutely refus'd 'em for it was plain that the Enemy had suffer'd very much in the last Assault and that they were extreamly discourag'd by their Losses So that at length upon the 2d of September N. S. in the Morning the Capitulation for the Surrender of the Castle of Namur was Sign'd and the Besiegers took the possession of part of the Outworks upon which Villeroy began to draw off and retire with the French Army toward Flerus The Substance of the Capitulation was That the Outward Fortifications that is to say the Fort of Coehorn the Redoubt Casemate the Hornwork of Bale and the Casotte should be delivered up the 2d Instant by nine in the morning That the Garrison should march out with Drums beating Colours flying two pieces of Cannon 24 two 12 and two 6 Pounders two Mortars and this upon the 5th Instance in the morning That they should be provided with Horses and Wagons sufficient for transportation of their Equipage and such of the Sick and Wounded as are able to depart with the Garrison and that the Besieged might leave Officers and Commissaries to take care of the rest That no Officers shall be stopp'd for Money lent or Goods deliver'd provided they give Security or Hostages for satisfaction of what they might owe. That no satisfaction should be demanded for Houses demolished during the Siege but that Cattel and Horses taken in the County of Namur before the Siege shall be paid for All Magazines to be faithfully deliver'd up All Mines to be faithfully discover'd c. Of this Capitulation Two Copies were Sign'd One by the Elector of Bavaria the other by Marshal de Bouflers and Monsieur de Guiscard FINIS