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The great and famous battel of Lutzen fought betweene the renowned King of Sweden, and Walstein; vvherein were left dead vpon the place between 5 and 6000. of the Swedish party, and between 10 and 12000. of the Imperialists, where the King himselfe was vnfortunatly slain ... Here is also inserted an abridgment of the Kings life, and a relation of the King of Bohemia's death. Faithfully translated out of the French coppie.
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diverse other parts of his body stitcht up hee reflected on himselfe and beleeved the Prophecy should bee accomplished by his hand But this needes no other confutation then the absence of Pappenheim and the time when the King received his hurt which was in the very beginning of the Assault before Pappenheim could make one of the adverse party I may add that the discretion of this worthy Count would not have sufferd him to runne into an errour so uncivill as to speake so undecently to a Prince of that eminency When the King had received this mortall wound which pierced him through and through he fell from his Horse and gave up the Ghost with nothing but my God in his mouth He that made this accursed shot was beaten downe with a storme of Harquebusados and sacrifised to the indignation of the Swedes But while the Groome of the Kings Chamber and diverse others lighted to raise the body the charge beganne againe more furiously then ever the Enemy having taken notice of this blow and concluding that all was now finisht and that hee should have Swedes good cheape This hindered the Kings servants from bearing of his body and summond every man to regaine the stirrupe and withstand the foe so that the King could not bee defended from receiving another pistoll shot in the head and being twice runne through with a sword The Imperiallists fearing him even after death and cowardly suspecting his speedy resurrection The poore Groome of his Chamber never forsooke him but breath'd his last upon his Masters carcasse after the receipt of an infinity of wounds But neither the Kings death nor the great oddes that the enemie had being strongly entrenched in divers places could let the Swedes madded with their inestimable losse from assaulting the Imperiallists with an unspeakable furie insomuch that they compelled the Battalion of Cuirassiers which made the left Wing to retire into their Trenches whom they dislodged about noone and gayned seven of their Cannon together with many Colours and Cornets Lieutenant Coronell Relinguen received commaund to advaunce and with three hundred Horse to charge foure Regiments of Crabbats commaunded by Isolani which made the right wing of the Enemy which hee performed with so much braverie and courage that hee twice pearc'd through them and brought backe three Standards leaving behinde one of his owne All his Officers were wounded and hee himselfe in the second onset had his arme shot through with a Pistoll bullet which forced him to retyre Isolani Generall of the Crabbats lost his life with a great number of his men Eighteene of his Companies charged some Germane Regiments that guarded the Baggage but they were stoutly opposed the Combate fierce the Assaults reiterated the earth dyed crimson and burdened with carkasses the Crabbats driven backe though not without some disorder of the Germane Horse recoyled amongst the Carts but this disadvantage the Enemy could not espie by reason of a thicke cloud which then arose and gaue the Germanes opportunitie to ranke themselues The Imperiall Commaunders Galas Merode and Holok longing to recover their Seat and Cannon loâ—â— tooke selected Bands fired the foure Corners of Lurzen to blinde the Swedes and keepe them from piercing that side to the succour of their friends This Essay was followed by successe the Trench force by the Imperiallists the seven pieces of Cannon lost regained and some Swedish Regiments disordered The Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar seeing the confesion of his men and beeing advertiz'd by Kinphausen of the Kings death was extreamely incensed and protesting hee had not so base a wish as to surviue him hee ranne with his head couched on the enemy seconded by the Regiments of the Prince of Auhalt and Count Lowenslein Then the fight became obstinate on both sides the Charges redoubled the Carkases piled up the Pikes broken and the difference come to bee decided by dint of Sword The eye of man nor that greater of the World ever beheld a Ioust more furious The Imperialistes stroue to hold their advantage recover'd and the Swedes to dispossesse them of it The Duke Bernard did wonders that day Thrice like Lightning shot hee through the Forces of the Enemie nor could a wound received on the left Arme cause him to leaue the field before hee had constrained the Enemie to abandon the Cannon and his Post The winning of this opened him the way to the conquest of another For this valiant Prince pressed the Imperialist so hard that hee againe disrank'd them and compelled them to quit another Post guarded with thirteene Cannon His dexteritie in the drilling of his men in the opening and shutting of his rankes was such that they received little or no hurt from the Enemies Cannon The Duke undaunted pierc'd through the clouds of smoke displac'd the enemie and made himselfe Master likewise of this place and of the Cannon and droue the enemie to a confused Retreat The slaughter was great and the Swedes well blouded made good life of their advantage and the disorder of their foes passing over their bellies killing all that came in their way and stopping their eares against all motiues for quarter The Duke possessed of this place and Master of the Field betweene two and three in the afternoone thinking there was but one Post to force seared by a Windmill and guarded by three Imperiall Regiments endeavoured to remooue them sending in the meane time sundry Squadrons to chase the fugitiues But then the fight grew more cruell then ever For Pappenheim was returned from Hall and came upon the gallop with certaine fresh Regiments His Reputation and his concouragement gaue new spirits to the Runawayes and call'd them to the combate The Duke having notice of this quits this place new ranks and encourages his men and giues Pappenheim a meeting in the mid-way All the Charges past were nothing in respect of these latter Pappenheim imployed his utmost cunning and diligence and shewed himselfe in all places in the Head of his Troupes to embolden them On the other side the Duke Bernard fixt a resolution either to die or overcome and the Swedes and Finlanders enrag'd for the death of their King fought like Lions and desperately ranne upon the enemy The Artillery advanced and began to thunder and to enter divers Battalions and to make legges and Armes to flie from one place to another The smaller shot was also se violent that the Squadrons encountred in the palpable darknesse caused by the smoake without knowledge of their parties This furious shocke continned two houres with equall losse to both Victorie opening her armes to imbrace now one side then another Galas Merode and Holok were wounded to death and a Cannon shot cut off Pappenheim by the middle His death and the losse of divers other Commanders stagger'd the Imperialistes as much as that of the kings incensed the Swedes Then the enemy upon the receite of a newe salute from foure and twenty Cannon which pierc'd their thickest Troupes
began to flie and the Swedes pressed and pursude them far within night which favour'd the retreat of the fugitiues and hinder'd the Swedes from ranging further in the chase Indeede they were so tyred that they had neither breath nor force furtherto follow them The Imperiallists giving fire to their campe and part of their baggage tooke some the way of Leipzig others that of Leutmeritz towards the Frontiers of Bohemia whither it was thought Walstein was gone having heard of the losse of the Battell to find a safe place of retreat and to gather together his dispersed Troupes The Swedes remained in possession of the Enemies campe and most of his Baggage of one and twentie exquifite Cannon besides inseriour ones and a multitude of Standards and Corners Vpon the mustering of their Armie they found wanting over and aboue the incomparable and irreparable losse of their King the Major Generall Isslet and other Coronells and Officers A Prince of Anhalt a Count of Nilis the Coronels Brandestein Wildenstein Relinguen and Winchell received that day deepe and honourable wounds The Duke Bernhard of Weymar also was hurt to whose valour and conduct the Swedian partie after God owes the glorie of that day more bloudy by far then that which was sought the yeare past in the neighbouring fields of Leipzig The Duke Ernest of Weymar also infinuated himselfe into the hearts of all men by his courage and leading that day The Regiments of these two Princes and those of the Prince of Anhalt of the Count of Lewestein of Coronell Brandestein and the two Swedish Coronells surnamed The Blew and the Yellow bore the brunt of that day The Swedes lost betweene fiue and sixe thousand men and the enemie betweene ten and twelue thousand remaining on the place and two thirds of their Armie ruin'd and dispersed besides the death or mortall wounds of divers of their remarkable Commaunders as Calas Merode Holok Piccolomini ' Isolani and divers others Pappenheim aboue all the rest was bewayled by his partie and not without just cause his courage his Conduct his Vigilancie and Experience having conspired to ranke him in the Souldiers esteeme amongst the bravest Generalls of these times But this glorious Victory of the Swedian Armie suffered an Ecclipse by the death of that truely great King who was the soule of his Friends and the terrour and scourge of his Enemies His bodie could not bee found till the next day when after a curious search it was discover'd amidst the dead heapes rifled and halfe naked and so disfigur'd with bloud and durt that hee could hardly bee knowne This at once so dolefull and glorious a spectacle of the end of so great a Monarch work'd so strongly and effectually on the hearts of his Souldiers that with teares and lamentations for a losse so irreparable they made an unanimous Vow upon the place to revenge his death and make him reviue in the rigorous pursuite of his Designes which hee had so often conjur'd them to continue especially a little before this Battell when hee seem'd to presage his ende touching which hee discoursed often and seriously with many of his familiars Amongst other passages the King marking the multitude of people that flock'd about him at his entry into Naumbourg three dayes before the Battell and hearing their shouts of Ioy and this generall acclamation Long liue the King as if now they had nothing to feare since hee was present hee made to the standers by this short but memorable speech Our Affaires answere our desires but I doubt God will punish mee for the folly of the people who attribute too much to mee and esteeme mee as it were their God and therefore hee will make them shortly see I am but a man Hee bee my witnesse it is a thing distastfull to mee What ever befall mee I shall receiue it as proceeding from his divine will In this onely I rest fully satisfied that hee will not leaue this great Enterprise of mine imperfect The seventeenth of November immediately following the day of Battaile and the Kings death Duke Bernard of Weymar retir'd to Weissenfels to take a generall review of his Army and to give rest and breath to his over wearyed Troopes By the review of his Regiments it appeared that his Army was be tweene fifteene and sixteene thousand strong The Duke imparted his present estate and all other necessary particulars to the Court of Saxon and urg'd the Electour to an uniting of their Forces to the end they might follow close their designe and pursue Walstein to the remotest parts of Austria After this all the Army as well Swedish as Germane agreed in the election of Duke Bernard for their Generall and tooke a new Oath faithfully to serve him who had deserved so well of the Swedian party by so many benefits by his vigilancy his conduct and the greatnesse of his same in Warre but above all by his resolution and incomparable valour of which he made so oportune and cleare a demonstration on that bloudy day of Battaile The Chancellour Oxesterne who lay when about Frankfort was sent for in all hast to manage the affaires of the Chancery Royall removed to Erfurt but chiefely to serve and counsell the desolate and disconsolate Queen environ'd wih griefes and crosses inexprimable yet but equall to the greatnesse of her losse The said Chancellour and the Chevalier Rache served happily to rectify sundry disorders and to raise the spirits of such as were dejected but principally to stop the floud of teares flowing from the eyes of this most vertuous Princesse and to replant in her mind generous and masculine resolutions De la Gorde was sent for in post hast who was imbarked in Swedeland with certaine Regiments of Swedes and Finlanders to bring a supply to the Campe Royall and reinforce it the dead King beeing anchor'd in this maxime to make continuall levies notwithstanding the number of his Armies that so hee might have men at will to fill up those empty Companies which the Sword mortallity and many other militarie miseries might unhappily depopulate But notwithstanding the death of this mighty Prince the astonishment and fright of the Enemy was such that hee basely forsooke diverse strong and impregnable places in the Electorate of Saxony Amongst others the City of Leipzig was forsaken and the Castle rased to the ground Chemnits was taken Zwickaw invested and forced the Duke Bernard following close his good fortune and making good use of the Enemies amazement To this hee was animated the more by the fixt decree of the consederate Princes to make all fast and more and more to knit a firme Vnion with the Swedes that so joyntly that so both of them joyntly might execute and fulfill the intentions and exhortations of the deceased King Walstein having notice betimes of his mens infortunity and the advantage of the Swedes recovered Leipsig that night and before day tooke the way of Leutmeritz where hee recollected is disbanded men and added to them