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A81446	A diary of the siege of Athlone. Giving a perfect account of the taking the castle, forts, and Irish-town, by storme, on the 30th. of June, last part. With a particular relation of their Majesties army passing the Shannon; and of their farther progress. By an engineer of the army, an eye-witness of the action. Licens'd, July the 11th. 1691. J. Fraiser		1691 (1691)	Wing D1377; ESTC R231402	5,031	8

plyed them so well that great Numbers of them were killed with our Canon Ball their coming so made us believe they had an Account of our Resolutions the Evening before A little after 10 of the Clock the Granadeers of both Parties that defended the Breach throwing Hand-Granadoes one at aother the Enemies Granadoes set fire to our Fasheens that lay close on the broken Arch which suddainly flamed so violently that our Men could not endure the Flame and Smoak that blew directly in their Faces and though they laboured very hard to extinguish it and did all that was possible for Men to do in their Condition could not prevent that part of the Breast-Work from being thus ruined by the Enemy but they preserved all the rest intire and immediately after all Hands possible were employed in throwing up another Breast-Work just behind the former which was raised in a very few hours and made much stronger than the former by this time it was somewhat after Twelve of the Clock and the General finding the Attack upon the Town that way was like to cost the Lives of great Numbers of our Men they deferred proceeding further therein till another Council of War was called All this Afternoon our Guns continued Firing The 30th All this Morning till near Twelve at Noon our Guns and Mortors have play'd continually from their several Batteries and not without good Success they Destroying great Numbers of the Enemy About One a Clock the General held a Council of War with most of the Great Officers wherein it was Resolved that this day we should Attempt passing the River and accordingly all things were Disposed against Four in the Afternoon pursuance to the Orders given out by the General about half an hour past Four the Attack was made by 1500 Granadiers who were Chosen Men drawn out of the whole Army who had Each a Guiney given them for their Encouragement in so hardy an Enterprise for all things were brought to that Extremity that the Enemy rendred our Pontons useless and broke the two Arches of the Bridge which we had with so much Difficulty repaired and would have cost us Ten Days time to have refitted so that nothing could be done without Wading the River The Signal for our Mens taking the River was the Ringing a great Bell upon which the Granadiers entered the Ford. Captain Sandes Cmmanded a Party of 30 Granadeers having two Lieutenants to assist him in the first Attack the Brave Major General Talmash who did not Command that Day going with them as a Volunteer and was the fifth Man that entered the Breach The Enemy at first made considerable Opposition by firing very smartly but nothing could withstand the Courage and Bravery of our Men who notwithstanding they Marched up to their Cravats in Water yet with continual Huzzaing advanced under the Shelter of our Cannon and throwing their Granadoes forced the Enemy from their Posts and God be thanked succeeded so well that they entred the Town and in less than an Hour made themselves entirely Masters of it and the River in sight of the Enemies whole Camp who durst not Attempt the Succour of their most Important Pass but run away leaving behind them near Eleven Hundred of their Number Dead on the Spot and about Three Hundred and Fifty that were taken Prisoners of which number is their Famous Major General Maxwel one Collonel two Lieutenant Collonels six Captains and great Numbers of Subalterian Offices on our side we had not above Forty Men killed and some few Wounded We found in the Place six Pieces of large Brass Canon and two Mortars with other small Pieces Twenty Barrels of Powder Twelve Hogsheads of Meal c. with other good Plunder This great Action was performed both by the Officers and Soldiers with all the Courage and Resolution Imaginable the Major Generals Tettar and Mackay and Brigadier General de la Meloniere and the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt conducted the Attack with great Vigor and the Duke of Wirtemberg Lieutenant General who was carried over the River upon the Shouldiers of his Granadiers together with Major General Talmash Count Nassau and Brigadier Belasis greatly contributed by their Conduct and Bravery to the good Success of it July the 2d Our Men have been busied in Lining the Works of the Town which remain Entire towards the Enemies Camp and Repairing some other Fortifications Yesterday the General sent a Trumpet to the Enemy about the Exchange of Prisoners who came back this Day and brought with him Major General Maxwel's Equipage which he sent for by him There Arrived an Express this Day to the General from one of Colonel Woolsly's Captains giving an Account that the Enemy had Deserted Streams-Town and that he and his Party is therein Deserters come in daily from the Enemies Quarters of Horse Foot and Dragoons who gives us an Account of the great Confusion the Enemy are in POSTSCRIPT OVR suddain Storming the Town was a great surprize to the Enemy for as their Camp was sending their Recruits to the Town they met with the Garrison flying Rallied them and came back the Dispute continued near half an hour some of the most forward of our Men who pursued them out of the Town was driven back under the shelter of the Walls who being reinforced drove the Enemy back to some Intrenchments 300 Yards from the Town where they still continued firing and now have set fire to some Cabbins near the Town They have another Pass about half a Mile off and another three Miles farther called Mill-town Pass it 's thought they 'll Dispute them both Notwithstanding the Enemy have Decampt at this Instant we see a Body of Horse as we suppose facilitating the Recreating of the Foot Their Horse hovers about the Hills near the Town As to the Number Kill'd we cannot yet learn an exact Account though I think there never was a more Tragical Spectacle in so short a time and small a place One could not set down his Foot at the end of the Bridge or Castle but on Dead Bodies many lay half buried under the Rubbish and more under Faggots and many not to be seen under the Ruins whereby the Stink is unsufferable but Orders are given for their immediate Burial What occasioned the greater number to be slain was that after our Army had entered the Town the Irish Retreated to Redoubt● and disputed every Inch before the Town was quite clear of them The Danes found many of them under Tubs and in dark Corners most of which they put to the Sword Our Horse and several Battalions of Foot were drawn up on this side the Water and strong Guards put on every Ford least the Enemy from the Hills should attempt any thing against our Camp ADVERTISEMENT ☞ An Impartial Journal of all the Transactions of Their Majesties Forces and Those of the Irish Rebels both Regular Troops and Rapparees in this last Winters Campaign in Ireland Beginning from the 14th of Novemb. 1691 immediately after the Taking of Cork and the two Forts of Kinsale the Time of the Royal Army's going into Quarters and ending with the Army 's Taking the Field at Ballimore June 1691. To which is added An Exact LIST of all the Irish Rebels that have been Kill'd or Taken Prisoners in each Action with the Names of the English Officers that Commanded the Day When and Place Where each Action was perform'd Printed by Authority in Ireland and Reprinted at London Sold by most Booksellers 1691. FINIS

A DIARY OF THE Siege of ATHLONE GIVING A Perfect ACCOUNT Of the TAKING the Castle Forts and Irish-Town By Storme On the 30th of JUNE last past WITH A Particular Relation of Their Majesties Army Passing the SHANNON and of Their farther Progress By an Engineer of the Army an Eye-Witness of the Action LICENS'D July the 11 th 1691. J. FRAISER LONDON Printed for Randal Tayler near Stationers-Hall 1691. A DIARY OF THE Siege and Taking by Storm THE Castle Forts and Irish-Town of Athlone c. WE having Possessed our Selves of the English Town by driving the Irish over the Shannon on the 20th of June as you have already heard The next day being the 21st by Four in the Morning we began to Work on our Batteries against the Irish Town and by Eight that Night we we had finished two Batteries one of 6 Twenty Four Pounders and the other of 8 Eighteen Pounders and immediately after we began to batter the Castle and the new Additional Works of the Town on the other side of the River On the 22d Our Guns continued to play incessantly from our two Batteries on the Enemies Works and that with very good success The 23d This Day about Ten in the Morning our Tin-Boats or Pontons arrived in the Camp some of our Soldiers going among the Enemies Dead in search for Plunder hear'd a Voice crying boire boire that is in English Drink Drink and making towards the place they found it to be a French Lieutenant Collonel who having his Back broak and being wounded in several other places had lain there ever since the late Action on the 20th This Evening a Drum came to the General from the Enemies Quarters with an Answer to a Message sent by the General about Exchange of Prisoners The 24th This Morning about the Hour Six our own Drum returned from the Enemies Quarters being kept by them till this time all our hands that could any ways possibly be spared from other Duty were employed in mending the Tin-Boats others of our Men were working with all diligence in raising three New Batteries one below the Bridge another above it and the third without the Town-Wall by the River-side opposite to a large Bastion the Enemy had erected on the other side the River Shannon About 7 this Evening one of the Granadeers belonging to the Lord Lisburn's Regiment perceiving a Colours of the Enemies floating on the River just under one of the Arches of the Bridge immediately stript and swam thither and though I believe above an hundred Shot were made at him yet the Fellow brought it off flying and presented it to the General who generously Rewarded him with Five Guineas The 25th Yesterday the Enemy were very hard at work in raising three New Batteries above the Castle the one of 4 Guns on a rising Ground at a small distance from the Castle and the other two of 3 Six Pounders each near the River but the Annoyance they gave us was very inconsiderable notwithstanding with one of them they play'd very briskly on the Old Walls of the Town where our Men were but without Killings or Wounding any with another they Shot into some of our Regiments of Foot who lay Encamped on the Bank of the River which obliged our Men to Decamp and remove farther off About Four this Morning our own Battery below the Bridge was finished and 6 Twenty Four Pounders planted thereon which began to play about Six on the Enemies Breast-Work on the other side we continued to play incessantly all this Day from our several Batteries with the last mentioned we beat down most of the Enemies Breast-Work and levelled it with the ground as also most of the Houses that stood in the Irish-Town and with the help of Six Mortars we battered down the greatest part of the Castle and laid the Enemy so open that a great part of them retired to Sarsefield's Camp others got behind the Castle and other of their Ruined Works The 26th Four Deserters that came into our Camp this Morning gave an Account That the Enemies Army hourly expected our going over the Shannon but they seeming verry silly Fellows we gave little Credit to them Our Cannon and Mortars continued to play all this Day without intermission This Day we could plainly Discover the Irish Army as they lay Encamped on the other side of the Town Our Men worked very hard this Day in repairing the two Arches of the Athlone Bridge and made up one of them in the Evening The 27th This Evening we raised a Battery in the Meadow below the Town and planted Five Guns thereon to stop the way the Enemy had on that side coming into the Town This Evening our Granadeers Burnt the Enemies Breast-work on the other side of the broken Arch with their Granadoes which in the Night notwithstanding our great and small Shot flying like Hail the Enemy very resolutely and industriously repaired The 28th Last Night and this Morning we wrought so hard on the last broken Arch in the Enemies Possession that our Beams were laid over it and partly planked which the Enemy perceiving before we could make any Lodgment on the other side detatched a Serjeant and Ten Men to run over their Works with Design to ruine ours but were all immediately Kill'd by our Men and soon after a Lieutenant and Twenty more were sent upon the same Design who all but two were Kill'd who threw our Planks and some of our Beams into the River and escaped amongst the Fire and Smoak All last Night and this Morning the Enemy were hard at work in Repairing some Old and in making some New Trenches in the Meadow opposite to our Batteries All this Day our Guns continued to play furiously on a place called Connaught Tower a solid Wall on the North-side of the Castle that it took up more time to bring down than any part of the Castle This Afternoon a Council of War was held wherein after great deliberation and long Debates it was concluded We should by Six next Morning attempt passing the Shannon on the Bridge and a Float to be laid above the Bridge opposite to the Castle without Boats below the Bridge 1000 Granadeers were to be Detatched for the Forlorn-Hope on this Service who were to be sustained by 15 out of every Troop of Dragoons in the Army and those seconded by several Regiments of Foot our Horse to pass close below the Bridge over the Ford where a large and open breach was made for their Entrance and accordingly Orders were given for every thing to be in readiness against the next Morning Monday the 29th Before Six this Morning our Men were ready marched to the Town shewing all imaginable desire to Engage where they stood at their Arms. Our Boats Floats and their Appurtenances were drawn into the Town by which time it was 10 of the Clock all this Morning we plainly observed greater Numbers of the Enemy to flock into the Town than formerly but our Gunners