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A32919	The campagne of the French King in the year 1677 In which is described exactly the three sieges and taking in of Valenciennes by assault, and of the town and citadel of Cambray, and of St. Omers, with an account of the Battel of Cassel. Licensed Sept. the 6th, 1678. Roger L'Estrange.; Campagna del re christianissimo nell' anno 1677. English.	Primi Fassola di San Maiolo, Giovan Battista Feliciano, conte, 1648-1713.	1679 (1679)	Wing C399B; ESTC R203952	44,521	161

would have at the same time made a general Attaque Monsieur could not execute his design but the advantage of the ground which the Enemies possessed the passage of two Rivers and the day being almost spent obliged hin to defer it On the eleventh in the morning the Prince of Orange very well perceived that he was engaged to give Battel The day before he found all the passages whereby he should relieve St. Omers fast shut up and he thought that he was more strong than the Monsieur for he was yet ignorant of the recruits that were come to his Royal Highnesses Army and if he had known it 't would have been a shame for him and for the States General to have left his Post The Prince resolves to give battel He then resolved to take the occasion to engage he passed the first River and made his Artillery advance and made the a new assault on the Abby of Pene Passes the River and lodging there a part of his Dragoons he posted among some thick shrubs neer to Moulin some Squadrons of his own Guards to back divers Battalions Makes a new attempt on Pene. which by the favour of the Canon and the hedges were to open the way for him to come to the second River on the other side of which the French Army was encamp'd Why Monsieur accepts the battel Monsieur who observed all these motions was in a great impatience to come to handy strokes not so much in consideration of his own glory and for the advantage that would thereby accrue to his Majesty He very well foresaw that if the Prince were contented to make headagainst them without engaging in a Battel he might so spin out the Time in length and by that only means render their design against St. Omers unprofitable He saw also that he had the disadvantage of the ground and the fewer forces but the forementioned Reasons made him shut his eyes against all others carried on by his own courage having great confidence in his Troops who testified a very great desire of doing well He presently prepared all things as a General that would not refuse the Combat He then about nine in the morning opposed to the Hollanders who advanced the two Battalions of Anjou right over against the Bridge of the River and gave order that the right wing should guard the Artillery to the same place which play'd upon the Enemies Battel till two a clock in the afternoon He also ordered Marshal Luxemburg to retake the Abby of Pene which was on the left side where the Marshal commanded This Post was an assured passage for the Enemies advance and was of very great importance The Marshal executed that order with the Royal Regiments and that of the Crown one Battalion of Stoppa's the Dragoons of Listenoy and other Troops Pene retaken and with four pieces of Canon The Hollanders after a long resistance were compelled to dislodg which they did after they had put fire to the place and rendred it unprofita to either party An ill motion of the Prince In the mean time his Royal Highness understood that the enemy had left with the better part of his Army the Height which was on the other side of the River of Pene with an apparent design to pass over and to fight This oblig'd him to send away presently the Chevalier Clinvilliers with some Officers to take a view more neerly of the front of the enemies Army Monsieur views the passages which appeared but weak on the place where they faced the right wing of the French The Chevalier brought him word that there was in that place a stone Bridg by which they might pass over for that it was not guarded at all and that he had seen on the other side of that Bridg some Squadrons sustained by Battalions ill drawn up and easie to be broken This movement of the Prince of Orange and the Condition of these Troops offered too fair an occasion to overcome to be neglected and Monsieur presently made use of it His Army had changed something the Order of battel by these movements as also by the disposition of the Ground and the occasion that had engaged him to it some of the Dragoons on the Right having passed over to the left and many Battalions of the second Line being advanced into the first Monsieur did not only make use of the Officers of the Army and the Aids de Camp to carry Orders and to observe the motion of the Armies but he also employed the Gentlemen of his house some being order'd to go to divers places others to stay fixed in certain particular posts and another part to be about his person The most considerable of these were the Chevalier de Beuvron Captain of his Guards the Marquis d' Effiat first Esquire the Marquis Pluvault the Chevalier Nantovillet Monsieur de Grave and many others which we shall mention hereafter It was about two a Clock in the afternoon when Monsieur who had resolv'd upon the business M. Humieres has order to begin the battel sent word to Marshal d' Humieres to advance towards the enemies Front with order to fight if he found a favourable occasion The Marshal having perceived the stone Bridg and divers places on the River easily to be pass'd he let his Royal Highness know by Chanly a good Officer of Marshal de Logis and who very well understood the business of war that he thought good to send the Dragoons of the Collonel General which he had ranged to begin the fight for that there could not be offer'd a better opportunity In passing the River he presented himself before the left wing of the Prince of Orange having with him the Gens d' Armerie and the Kings Musketeers having order'd to follow him two Battalions of Navar with a design to gain the height and the Gardens in the middle of the enemies first Line He fell immediatly within two gross Battalions of Hollanders A dangerous business seconded by nine Squadrons of Brederodes Kinskell and others To disintangle himself from them he commanded the two Battalions of Navar and the Musketeers to attacque them The valour of the musketeers making the later to a light When the Hollanders saw before them the Red-coats for so they called the Musketeers they heard the commander of the Battalion of Oalkembourg to animate his soldiers to sustain manfully but that shock and the Victory should be easily theirs afterwards But neither the perswasion of the enemies Officers nor the Tempest of two vollies of their Muskets which they answered with their pistols could hinder these Musketeers from overthrowing by dint of Sword the Regiment which opposed them whilst those of Navar routed the other After the defeat of these foot the Musketeers seeing the Horse coming towards them which back'd them returned to mount their Horses with so great precipitation for fear of loosing the opportunity of charging that

Chevalier Sourdis and divers other Officers and Troops which followed them imagined that they had been beaten back which caused the Chevalier Sourdis to say to them that they should not press so as to cause those that were advancing to believe they were routed The Marshal seeing the Enemies Squadrons to advance after the rout of their two Battalions he opposed them with the Marquis de Livourn with the Gens d' Armery who after they had endured the brunt of two discharges at the nose of the muskets with their swords in their hands passed over the bodies of all these of the first Line But being willing to push on the victory farther it was impossible for him to make them keep their Ranks in the heat of the Combate so that the Enemies Squadrons falling on a sudden upon them put them into disorder But Revel with his Brigade succour'd them very opportunely giving them the means to put themselves into a Body and to divers others of his Troops to advance as far as a great space where there were yet two Battalions sustained by all the Prince of Oranges Cavalry In the mean time Cardonnier advertised the Marshal that they saw above fifteen Squadrons to descend from the hill The hazard of Marshal Humieres who were coming to fall upon the flank of his wing who ordered the same Cardonnier Lieutenant General to make head against them with the Squadrons of Conismark and the Chevalier de Sourdis to bring on the Musketeers who had recovered their horses It was then that Monsieur began to engage himself on his side Monsieur engages He caused the Infantry to advance and ordered Marshal Luxemburg to cause his lest wing to advance Marshal Humieres was still in all the dangers and perils M. Humieres beats the Enemy finding new obstacles The two Battalions which were in the great space one of which was the Prince of Oranges Guards standing firm before the Squadrons of Curasiers and of Tilladet and could not be broken without the Infantry He then commanded Crevaut with the Queens Battalions and Desbourdes and Raousset with those of Navar to chace them which was executed after a most vigorous resistance Having put to flight those Battalions he met within a large plain all the Enemies Cavalry who had prepared themselves for to receive him there being among others one Squadron of white Horse of the Princes own Guard and for that Revel 's Brigade had suffer'd much he caused the Gens d' Armerie to advance who being rallied and having liberty to extend themselves on every side they began to charge Monsieur who was in the midst of it Monsieur encourages those that fly to return to fight seeing some Battalions and some Squadrons flying before a great Body of the Enemies Foot in the same place where he begun to fight he ran to them crying Do you see me and fly where is the honour of France By his Example and Valour At the same time he made the Battalions of Greeder and Phiffer to march to which he joyned his own company of the Guards and kept none about his person but his Gentlemen and Domesticks After these orders he rallied those that fled and sent them back to the fight encouraging them by his Example and overthrew all the Enemies Infantry who having prevailed in the disorder of the French had almost took their Camp Monsieur exposed himself very much in this occasion receiving one Shot from a Musket upon his Arms. The Chevalier of Lorrain was wounded in the front The Chevalier of Lorain wounded and divers other Gentlemen and Domesticks belonging to his Royal Highness were wounded by his side M. Humiers knows that Monsieur is victorious Marshal de Humieres seeing at the disorder of the Enemies Infantry very well perceiv'd that Monsieur had gotten some considerable advantage And finding he had nothing to fear on that side and having assured himself on the other side with the Brigade of Moutrevel of the second Line which was in very good order he reinforced the Gens d' Armery once more which had suffer'd much with the Brigade of Revel and other Squadrons which were neer it Puts the left wing of the Hollanders to the rout and charged the gross body of the Hollanders Cavalry which after an obstinate fight began at last to repass the River and then to disband and fly Monsieur at the same time was ready with his Infantry on the left side of that victorious Wing and met the Marshal who came from conquering with the Cavalry the left wing of the Enemies where were their greatest forces and where fortune seemed to dispute with the bravery of his Troops The Duke of Luxemburg who with his left wing had not found that resistance in the Enemies right and who had wholly broken them had order from his Royal Highness to pursue the victory with divers Squadrons of the Collonel Generals and some others who were drawn from the right wing of Marshal d' Humieres and which the Count Plessis had the charge to conduct to him The dangers and bravery of the Prince of Orange The Hollanders Army in the confusion gained the height and the way to Cassel and la Belle. The Prince of Orange after that he had exposed himself divers times and had received several shots upon his Arms seeing the Battel lost without recovery retired after all his cares sad and followed by few people hardly knowing whither to go He went first to Steenwood and thence to Poperinghen finding at this time that fortune was not answerable to his courage Monsieurs march Monsieur advanced as far as the hill which was on the other side of the second River with the Brigades of d' Aubarode and Villechauvis to stay for the Marshal of Luxembourg or to sustain him in case that Count Nassau should have attaqued him with those Troops which he led The Marshal scattered many of the Troops who had rallied to save their Baggage Luxemburgs Actions and took many Officers and Soldiers prisoners even two leagues on the other side Cassel The Hollanders lost all their Baggage Food and Prisoners The Hollanders loss thirteen pieces of Canon a great many Mortarpieces fifteen Standards one and forty Ensigns and above ten thousand men that is to say 3000 slain as many wounded or taken prisoners and the rest run away or rendred incapable of service The chief of quality that were there lost of the Hollanders were Walstein Commander of his Highnesses Dragoons Hollanders of quality slain Collonels Scaep Arembergh Greames Grime Holfwege Hornby Truxes Majors of Brederods Foot Waldeck Kloostet the eldest son of Collonel Kilpatrick Governour of Bosleduc Everwyn Lieut. Col. of the same Regiment Collonel Slaneberg the Baron of Lotthen and 150 Officers more Wounded and prisoners Those that were wounded and taken prisoners were Ryswith Cornet of the Guards of the Body Hortman Lieutenant of the Cavalry of Valdek Croonmain Lieutenant Colonel