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A51774	The history of the late warres in Denmark comprising all the transactions, both military and civil, during the differences between the two northern crowns in the years 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660 : illustrated with maps / by R.M.	Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.	1670 (1670)	Wing M439; ESTC R36492	146,663	155

fourteenth saw the Enemy drawn up in Battle-array expecting of them the Right Wing of the Swedes Army consisting of ten Squadrons of Horse was lead by the Prince himself four whereof composing the Reserve being commanded by Major General Beteker one hundred Dragoons closed this Wing on the right hand and the Front was strengthened with three peeces of Cannon the left Wing equalled this in strength and order conducted by Lieutenant General Horn and the Count of Waldec But the main Body consisting of four Battalions of Foot though not exceeding fourteen hundred in all and five peeces of Ordnance were commanded by Marshal Steynbock sent thither to assist the young Prince with his more aged Councels The Town and a Wood covered the Army behind so that their Rear was secure and a long continued Ditch with some water in it where the ground was lowest interposed betwixt their Front and the larger Campania there were some Avenues in the aforesaid Ditch through which the Bodies of Horse did move when they engaged on either side Ebersteyn seeing the Enemies order put also his Army into Battalia Major General Quast commanded his Right Wing consisting of the Imperial Regiments some few Poles and a Company of Danish Dragoons Count Vander Nat with his own Regiment and part of Collonel Mathew's made up the Reserve the Danish Infantry being but two small Bodies composed the main Battle being otherwise strengthened with fourteen peeces of Cannon the Left Wing made up of Brandenburgers Poles one troop of Ebersteyn's Regiment and a few Dragoons was encreased by five Dutch Companies under the Command of Lieutenant Collonel Aquila the rest of Ebersteyn's own and Konenberg's whole Regiment were appointed for Reserves Marshal Schack had by this time also put his Army into Battalia his Right Wing being commanded by Lieutenant General Alefeld and his left by Major General Tramp the Netherland Auxiliaries made up of English French and Dutch Companies divided into three Regiments and lead by their three Collonels Killegrew Allowa and Metteren composed the main Battle Killegrew commanded these in chief and the rest of the Officers excepting Allowa who was absent by sickness and Sir Walter Vane who worthily discharged the Office of Major General marched with their several Companies and in their several places Marshal Ebersteyn had chosen the Left Wing because he would be opposite to the Enemies right which Shack observing drew up his troops on his right so that both Armies thus united made but one though a very irregular Front which was occasioned through Ebersteyn's hast to engage and the disorders which usually arrive in such encounters The Armies being thus ranged they met and fought with no less desires than bravery and the Battle proved doubtful as well as hot until the Netherlanders the rest being broken and disordered turned the day by only keeping firm and snatched the Victory out of the Swedes hands Ebersteyn had before the Battle began sent four hundred Horse to observe the Enemies order and countenance who advancing too far were rudely received and beaten back to their main Body In the mean time the Eberstenians move on and marching on to the Swedes Ditch endeavoured with great courage to beat them from it but being as bravely received they were forced back with great loss all the Officers of Ebersteyns own Regiment being either slain or wounded Neither was Shacks fortune better all his Horse being broken and routed so that if the Swedes had not been hindered by their own Ditch to pursue their advantage at once by hindering the Enemy to rally behind the Dutch Foot they had infallibly got the Day Killegrew seeing the Horse beaten marched up in good order to the Ditch and firing continually by Ranks as he advanced forced the Swedes Foot to quit it and retire further into the Field behind them The Swedes endeavoured to make head again but being again disordered were charged broken and cut in pieces by the Polish and Danish Horse who were returned to the fight Alefeld had by this rallied his Troops again and bringing them on a fresh passed also the Ditch and charging the Swedes Left Wing of Horse routed and pursued them to the Walls of the Town The Prince having lost all his Foot and weakened by the flight of his Left Wing seeing no hopes of recovering the Day retired also in reasonable good order into the City however pursued by the Victorious Enemy The Field being cleered and plundered and the night growing on apace the Danish Generals encamped as near the Town as was possible The next morning they put they Armies into Battle in sight of the Enemy and having planted their Cannon threatned a sudden and general Assault unless they surrendred The Swedes seeing the Enemies preparations sent out Commissioners to treat with them and a Trumpeter to De Ruyter who continually thundred upon them with vollyes of Cannon to desire him to desist for they would deliver up the Town upon reasonable terms But all mention of Conditions being rejected by the insulting Victors they were forced to Deliver up themselves and the Place at discretion Lieutenant General Horn marched out with three thousand Horse which as also the Prisoners and Colours which had been taken in the Fight he presented to the Confederate Generate Generals who divided and distributed them amongst their several Regiments the Officers the Town the spoil and all fell into the Conquerours hands together with fourscore Cornets and eight and twenty Foot-Colours Amongst the prisoners of note were Horn himself and the two Major Generals Weyer and Waldec The Duke of Weymer and the Count Koningsmark had been taken in the Battle the day before there were also ten Collonels besides the inferiour Officers and some other persons of quality The slain on the Swedes side amounted to well nigh two thousand besides Major General Beteker and some other lesser Officers The Danes lost only their Collonel Booth one Lieutenant Collonel one Major and three Captains of Horse Piazenzewski the Commander in Chief of the Poles died in this Field of Honour as also Captain Hemmema a Gentleman of Friezland the only Officer amongst the Netherlanders The number of the slain souldiers did not exceed five hundred in all neither did this so signal a Victory and the fruits of it the Island of Funen cost the Danes any more which seemed in some sort to recompense the manifold losses they had hitherto sustained The two Swedish Generals the Prince of Sulsbach and Marshal Steynbock escaped the danger for being retired into the Town and in an impossibility of either defending the place or being relieved and seeing they had but that one night of reprieve they thought it more reasonable to hazard an escape than submit to a certain surrender They therefore exposed themselves in a small Boat to the mercy of the Sea and escaped by favour of the darkness and nimbleness of their Rowers through all the Enemies Fleet and came early the next morning to Corseur

hinder the Swedes to land under favour of their Guns They also mastered the aforesaid Works which were open to the Land side which so terrified the Enemy that they were at a stand what to do until the King caused Proclamation to be made by sound of Trumpet that the Inhabitants should retire to their several dwellings for he would use no hostility but against such as were found in Arms. Hereupon they all retired and left a free passage for the Swedes to land with all their forces Only Naskow did dare to put a stop to the Enemies Cariere and Victories For the Town being well fortified and filled with the Souldiers that had retired thither out of Falster and all the parts of the Island and furnished with an immense quantity of Corn and other Provisions seemed able enough to hold out a very long Siege and truly it cost the Enemy much pains and time as will hereafter appear before they could take it The King having thus mastered these Islands found Corn enough in them to suffice a great Army for a year He therefore sent two thousand Tuns of Rye and one thousand of Barley into Funen where the want was greatest and victualled his Fleet for six Moneths besides Whilest the King was thus ordering his affairs in Laland another part of his Forces were employed in the conquest of Meun where the resistance was greater than in any of the greater Islands Major Schroder commanded there assisted with a hundred Horse and five hundred armed Boors The Swedes were at first bravely beaten off and obliged Apr. 26. by reason of the shallowness which hindered their Ships to approach the Shore to quit their design for the present In the mean time the Garrison was strengthened by the addition of a Company of Foot from Coppenhagen which apprehended the danger most this Island lying nearest to it and readiest to assist it But the Enemy watchful upon all occasions had caused new fashioned Carriage-boats to be made at Nycopping in Falster each of these held fifty Horse in their Hull or Bottome and as many Foot upon the Decks which were environed with thick plancks made Breast-work wise and Musket proof These Vessels were so flat that lying level with the shore the Horsemen mounted might easily get out whilest the Foot facilitated their passage if there were need with their shot from above as out of a Fortress These Castle-boats being ready and filled with Souldiers put off and making towards the ordinary Landing-place drew all the Enemies forces thither to oppose them which they observing suddenly changed their Course and directing it to an unusual quarter rowed with that violence that they rushed on shore and landed all their men maugre the feeble resistance of the Defendants who were indeed but few There was an Inlet of the Sea betwixt that place which the Islanders guarded and that other where the Enemy landed so that before the Governour could get thither to oppose their descent they were got into Battalia and yet he charged them bravely but being wounded himself and seventy of his men slain upon the place he was forced to yield the Victory and the price of it the Island to his more numerous Enemies And thus all the Islands fell into the Swedes hands and all the Kingdom likewise except Coppenhagen shrewdly shaken with the loss of its obeying Provinces The City was likewise blockt up on all sides the Camp keeping them from any Communication by Land and four sometimes five of the Enemies Ships besieging their Haven by Sea so that nothing material could enter in or out without the Adversaries leave This caused a great dearth within which lasted all the Summer and might have continued longer to the ruine of that Noble City if they had not been relieved by the coming of the Dutch Fleet. General Wrangel had hitherto held the City of Naskow close besieged and having taken the Islet before the Town and the two Forts in it which secured the passage by water straightened it so that the succours designed for the relief of the besieged however assisted by the Dutch Fleet May 23. could not enter Wrangel hereupon summons the place adding threats to his invitations which the Garrison rejected with no less courage than constancy The Marshal General was loth to leave the Work he had so well begun unfinished but being called to a more weighty employment he was forced to quit it and hasten to the defence of Funen so much menaced and so often attempted by the Confederates as hath been already related The Garrison was glad to be rid of this valiant adversary but their joy did not last long for Field Marshal Steynbock being sent to succeed him and not ignorant in whose place he came was heightened with the example He therefore pressed the Besieged with all his industry and having got all things necessary for forcing of the place approached battered and mined it with that violence that the Garrison unable to resist any longer was constrained to surrender July 26. Thus this considerable place wanting powder and hopeless of relief fell into the Enemies hands who proud with so signal a Victory sent most of their Troops to prosecute the Siege of Coppenhagen And thus we have hitherto continued our observations of what happened at Land Neither did the Sea want its contests though less bloudy whilest those two Potent Commonwealths of England and the United Provinces made preparations equal to their Grandeur for the carrying on of their several interests under pretence of assisting their Allies The truth is the Trade of the Baltick and free passage of the Sound exclusive each to other was the ground of their jealousie and the design of their Arms. The contests between the Swede and Dane remaining as it were in aquilibrio it was generally believed that which Statesoever could first send from home a considerable Fleet would carry the business and compose the business of the Sound to their own mind Yet it is worth the noting in this main end of theirs what great advantages the Dutch had over the English for by assisting their Ally the Dane if they prevailed and ruined the Swede they looked for no less than an absolute Guardianship as it were of the Crown both by their Land and Sea forces and in consideration of their lent moneys to have been their own security for passing the Sound and imposing a restriction upon any else at pleasure and so engross the Navigation and Commerce of the Baltick Sea to themselves Whereas England by assisting their Ally the Swede and helping him to conquer Denmark could not assure to themselves the benefit they looked for but must remain precarious and stand to the courtesie of a potent Monarch whilest they had but his bare faith plighted to give them equal priviledges with Swedes to pass the Sound Toll-free and to have their Enemies excluded the Trade of the Baltick Both States therefore prepare their Fleets each of forty men of