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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

better satisfied than at first did not fail to reply to Lobkovits that the Officers that commanded the Troops should be of their own Nation then That he needed take no other Expedient to curb the Garrison of Newhaussel than to reassemble under some Colours a great number of Hungarian Soldiers who were spread throughout the Kingdom and without Employs That they might put those people in places of Hungary exposed to the Turks instead of the Germans who did not much less mischief than the Infidels through want of Discipline and of being paid The Emperor having at last agreed to these Articles from the Mouth they subscribed the Peace and carried back the Crown of the Kingdom of Hungary to Presbourg which had been carried to Vienna during the War The Emperor dismist the greatest part of his Troops and the Bishop of Munster and the Marquess de Baden Dourlach Generals of the Troops of the Empire with confiderable presents after which they departed and delivered their Troops to those that had given them One would have thought after this that Hungary should enjoy a long Peace but the Promise that was mutually given on one side not to meddle with the Priviledges of the Kingdom and on the other to observe the Treaty of Peace was not kept on either side The Count de Rothal Commissary General to the Emperor having withdrawn some Imperial Troops from Transylvania that remained there instead of leading them the way to the Hereditary Countreys placed them anew in the Upper Hungary at Zathmar Tokai Kalo and Onod never minding the Complaints of the Hungarians There were also German Garrisons put into Nitrie and Lewents which Souches as has been said retook from the Turks The Hungarians seeing that they had not kept their promise which they had given them made Inroads up on the Turks as if the War had sticontinued they made complaints of it Vienna and reveng'd themselves cruelly on all the Frontiers of Christian Hungary One of the first Hungarians that mounted his Horse to violate the Treaty of Peace was Count Palaffi Imbre with design to make the fault be charged upon Wesselini the Palatine his particular Enemy as if he had done nothing but by his Order Palaffi not being believed or the Council of Vienna not judging it fit to act against Wesselini he was so far transported that he attempted to plunder and burn the Palatines Lands but Ragotski and Abaffi taking this lasts part hindred Palaffi from executing any thing though he had demanded assistance from the Turks and had offered them his Son and the Fort of Debin which belonged to him as Pledges of his Fidelity The disturbances of the Hungarians among themselves which should have been determined by the Laws of the Countrey gave occasion to their Enemies to represent them as common disturbers at the Imperial Court who seeking but a plausible pretence to leave the German Garrisons that were there among them did not fail to make advantage by what presented it self The Hungarians were further accused of having made several attempts on the person of their King According to the Laws of Hungary the King should call a general Diet of the Kingdom every third year and be present himself at it to regulate the Affairs of State The Diet then having been called in form at Presbourg Sept. 27. 1665. the Hungarians earnestly prayed that the Emperor would be there but he absolutely refused it 'T was said since that there was a Conspiracy among them to seize his Person Whether this was true or that the Emperor not designing to agree to the calling back of the German Troops which he knew well they would demand of him would not for this reason put himself into their hands he gave them new matter of complaint by this refusal In the beginning of the Year 1666. the Soveraign Chamber of Hungary sollicited by the complaints of the Inhabitants of Zathmar sent some Deputies to Vienna to complain that Colonel Spaar who commanded the Troops that were put into that place had constrained the Inhabitants to give him a of Money as if it were to pay off the Garrison but that he converted it to his own use The same Deputies had order to represent the Extorsions and Violences of all the German Troops and to demand that he would call them home according to the promise that he had made to them Besides the reasons of not calling them back that have been already related there came pat for the Emperors purpose advice that the Hungarian Protestants had chosen Heads to oppose the progress of the Roman Religion in Upper Hungary by the Example and Authority of the Family of Ragotski Whether this advice were true or not there needed no more to stop the mouths of the Deputies who durst not take the Protestants part Those that are of humour to make Conspiracies or what men would make to be such do not stop at the first unless they have a mind to prevent them Fearing to be punished for their Projects that have not succeeded if they should come to be discovered they endeavour all anew to put those against whom they have conspired in a state uncapable to do them any hurt The Counts Nadasti and Serin formed once more a design of seizing the Emperors person who must pass by near Puttendorf going to meet his Empress Count Serin who brought his Daughter to Ragotski to consummate the Marriage was under this pretence come into Hungary with a numerous Train They had likewise publisht that the Turks would make sure of a considerable Pass to send Troops into Dalmatia against the Venetians with whom they were still at Wars and that the Emperor favour'd it under-hand To oppose this design of the Infidels they had almost raised 500 Men for whom they had assign'd Puttendorf as the place of Randezvouse The Emperor must ride Post near by that with the Prince of Lobkovits Master of his House and twelve Horse-men and it would have been easie for those Troops to invest him if the Emperor had not passed sooner than the Conspirators believed he would and before their Troops were arrived The Emperor met happily with his new Spouse and led her to Vienna where the Marriage was consummated on Decemb. 5. 1666. The Year following they spoke of having her Crowned Queen of Hungary and the States of the Kingdom were called together for this purpose at Presbourg The Counts of Upper Hungary refused to send their Deputies thither unless they call'd home the German Troops which they refused so much the more obstinately as they demanded it eagerly The Emperor was not ignorant they would not have given so many fresh on-sets on this Article but to recover their Liberties and Priviledges which perhaps they might make use of in a manner disadvantageous to his House if he should happen to die and the Hungarians could not endure that the House of Austria should from thenceforth look upon Hungary as her Hereditary Countreys where it should have an

Intelligence of it sent on that side 200 Foot convoy'd with 300 Horse to endeavour to enter the Castle but the Convoy was beaten and the 200 Men obliged to return Upon this News he with speed march'd his Cavalry which consisted of 8000 Germans and 2000 Poles Commanded by Lubomirski and put 200 into the Castle The Burghers surpriz'd to see an Imperial Army surrender'd almost as soon as they were Summon'd and hardly gave the Malecontents time to retire to their Camp which was not far from the Town Tekeli incens'd at this Affront which they had now done sent a Detachment of his Army to fall upon the Enemy which at first made no movement because it was not yet rang'd in Battel But as they soon as it was who apparently had imagin'd that they should find no more than a Party of Imperial Horse believing them sufficiently employ'd in opposing the Incursions of the Tartars were surpriz'd to see the whole Army march towards them and since theirs was inferiour in number they soon after thought of retiring They did it in very good order but being warmly charg'd by the Imperialists they began to fly as fast as they could some to Tirnaw and others to a River two Miles distant on the other side of which they made a stand and stopt the Enemy who did not think it worth their while to pursue them farther This Action was towards Evening and in the Night Tekeli who was encamp'd at some distance from thence thought that he ought to dislodge against the opinion of the Turks who were encamp'd by themselves near him the Reason which he gave was That it was of Importance to rally them who had newly been defeated and dangerous to expose affrighted Troops to a Victorious Army Thereupon the Turks divided from him and would not rejoyn him but by express Order from the Grand Vizier This mixture of Christian and Mahumetan Troops commanded by different Heads produces no good The Heads would often be of different Sentiments 〈…〉 ●●uld one yield to the other and the Turks would have the Christians undergo all the hazard when there was any as the Christians sought for nothing but advantaging themselves at the expence of the Turks Their Design had been to seize the Castle of Presburg that they might have a Passage there over the Danube that they might easily maintain a Communication with one another For that end the Turkish Cavalry which was not employ'd at the Siege ought to have search'd out that of the Imperialists and have constrained them to withdraw into Germany which had not been difficult for any other People besides the Turks to have done The Duke of Lorrain being drawn nearer to Vienna that he might incommode the Besiegers as much as he could possibly the Malecontents provided for the Turks divers Boats by means of which they might have some Communication with them and at the same time might enter into Moravia from whence they might draw considerable Contributions and part of which they might ravage nor could the Imperialists be able to hinder them These last in truth march'd against the Malecontents to take from them what they had gotten and having come up to them Charg'd them with vigour enough but 300 Horse who came to their Assistance sav'd the Booty which they had taken The Imperialists took the way of Tuln and Krembs to receive the Auxiliary Troops who came from all Parts of Germany and Poland as fast as they could possibly But having received advice that the Tartars and Turks followed by Tekeli were entered into Moravia they were oblig'd to turn on that side In the end the Grand Vizier having known that the Succours advanc'd and that the Imperial Horse march'd to joyn them gave Orders to the Tartars and Male-contents to make waste in the Hereditary Countrey as far as they could either to oblige the Duke of Lorrain to return that way or to take from the Succours all means of subsisting when they should arrive From the 23d of August the Tartars had enter'd Moravia and had begun to make the Country in such a manner desolate that it could not recover in a long time for the Male-contents they were contented to keep encamp'd near Mark and to promise the Tartars to follow them In the mean while they did not advance at all and it seem'd as if Tekeli as much fear'd the Success of the Siege of Vienna and the Consequences which the taking of that Place might have as he had before fear'd the Victories of the Emperor In truth were it supposed that the Turks had made themselves Masters of all Hungary and of part of the Hereditary Countries of the House of Austria they would have had no more need of Teckely and perhaps might treat him with as much contempt as they had lately paid him honours while he was necessary to them On the other side if the Turks should fail in the Siege of Vienna the Emperor would be more formidable than ever because ordinarily the Turks who are insupportable with good Fortune have little courage under bad Teckely made these reflections or had some other reason for acting less vigorously than ordinarily and did not manage his Forces without cause The Duke of Lorrain having made Detatchment to discover the condiion of the Enemy followed immediately after with all his Horse The Tartars and Turks seeing the Imperialists come up put themselves into a posture to receive them and fell upon them so briskly that at the first they routed some Squadrons and some pierced even to the Body of Reserve but not being sufficiently sustained the greatest part of them who had advanced so far perished After that the Tartars having in vain attempted to gain the Flank of the Imperialists their Army divided into two parts and one part retired towards Teckely's Camp the other towards the Bridges of Vienna where a great many perished who cast themselves into the Danube in hopes of swimming over The Infidels were inferior in number to the Imperialists who had then above 30000 Horse There perished in that action between 1000 and 1200 Men of the Turks and Tartars who had apparently been Conquerors if Teckely had assisted them to purpose The Turkish Troops and those of the Male-contents having been repulsed and beaten more than once on the other side the Danube the Vizier could hardly have any communication with them nor give them assistance that there was one of the greatest faults which he made in the Enterprize of the Siege of Vienna whereas he ought before all things to be Master of the two Mouths of the Danube and to pursue the Imperial Army which could not have made head against a much greater number of Troops so that while one part of the Army had carried on the Siege the other might have cover'd it and have foraged all about which the Vizier having understood too late order'd the Walachians and Moldavians to labour to rebuild the Bridges of Vienna which the Imperialists had broken

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