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A40552 A full and perfect relation of a great and signal victory gain'd by the English and Hollanders over the French translated out of Dutch. Waldeck, Georg Friedrich, Graf von, 1620-1692. 1689 (1689) Wing F2290; ESTC R225572 2,038 2

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A Full and Perfect RELATION OF A Great and Signal Victory Gain'd by the English and Hollanders OVER THE FRENCH Translated out of Dutch. Licensed August 24. 1689. TWO such great Armies as those of the Prince of Waldeck and of the Mareschal D' Humieres being so nigh each other as our late Relations have inform'd us it could not well be expected they should be long in such a Posture without entring upon Action And accordingly we have now an Account of a considerable Rencounter that happened between them on the 25 of August N. S. wherein the French were the Aggressors but to their own loss as you may see by the Letter which the Prince of Waldeck writ to the States-General and which he sent them by an Express The Letter is as follows Highty and Mighty Lords UPon the Advice we received this Morning That the Mareschal D' Humieres was upon his March with his whole Army which within a few days had been Re inforced with Six Thousand Men we fired some Pieces of Cannon to intimate this motion to a great party of Your Lordships Army which was gone out to Forage In the mean while the Van-Guard of the Enemy attacked the Village Forge where were Posted Eight Hundred Foot to cover the Forragers they were Commanded by the English Collonel Hodges by Lieutenant-Collonel Goes and by the Major of the Regiment of Hesse this Attack lasted Two Hours and our Men behav'd themselves with an unexpressible Courage until such time as that Monsieur Roo Major of Horse who had been sent to bring back the Lieutenant-Generals Webbenum Marlborough and D'Hubi with the Forragers came in to their Succours with some Gavalry then our Men fought Retreating against the whole French Army which came pouring upon them until that they came to a rising Ground near the little City of Walcour where we had posted a Battalion of the Troops of Lunenburg which was also Reinforced with another of Colonel Holle The French attack'd this City with the utmost fury during Two Hours and a half Lieutenant-General Ailva advanc'd to Succour it with Three Regiments of which he had detach'd that of the Brigadier Talmusch Lieutenant-General Marlborough follow'd with the English Horse Life-Guards and Two English Regiments Major-General Slangenburg advanced also with some Detachments of Foot on the other side of the Town which caused the French to retire in such great confusion that they abandoned their Canon and their Powder with a vast number of Dead and Wounded of whom we know not yet precisely the number In this Occasion we took a great many Prisoners of the number of whom are Three Captains of the Guards and Monsieur D' Artignan Commanding the Guards After their Retreat Two Drums came to demand of us a Suspension of Arms for the carrying off their Dead and for the looking after their Wounded They inform'd us That Six Battalions of the Guards who were present in this Action were for the most part defeated The loss on our side is not considerable saving Lieutenant-Collonel Graham in the English Troops and the Major of the Dragoons of Zell who were kill'd and a Captain and a Lieutenant with some of our Forragers who were snapt up by the Enemy and there were but very few kill'd or wounded in the City After that the French were Retreated our Troops continued in their Posts till Night The Count De Nassaw Mareschal De Camp and all the other Generals and Officers behav'd themselves extreamly well in this Occasion All the Souldiers shew'd extraordinary Courage as well as Eagerness to be engag'd with the Enemy The Victory would not have stopt here if we could have pursued the Enemy further but the Scituation of the Ground was an invincible Obstacle to the Pursuit The English did more particularly Signalize themselves in this Action having given singular Proofs of their Bravery I congratulate your Lordships upon the good Success of this Encounter hoping that God will further Bless your Arms after a more peculiar manner as well as your Government I am c. From the Camp near Thill Chasteau Aug. 25. 1689. very late at Night At the bottom of this Letter which was made publick by Order of the State there is another from an Officer of the Army to one of his Friends dated Friday morning on the 26th of this Month S. N. It says that they had been all the Night at their Arms and that Prince Waldeck had spent the Night in his Coach visiting the Camp and giving the necessary Orders in this Conjuncture That they were inform'd the Enemies had lost Two thousand Men. That at the moment this was writing they heard Firing and that it was believed some Parties were again engag'd And that in short it was not doubted but that the French would seek to take their Revenge It is observable that the English and French Guards were Engag'd against each other and that Fortune still continued to decide in favour of the former The French Army is said to consist of 34000 Men. 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