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A70217 A trve and briefe relation of the bloody battel of Nievport in Flanders found betwixt Prince Mavrice of happy memory and Albert arch-duke of Avstria vpon the second of Iuly 1600 Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650? 1641 (1641) Wing H1656A; ESTC R40974 18,700 14

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good effect and well spent and when they came neere and thwart our right flank the 500 Frizons Muskettiers who as is said before were onely desired to bestowe their shott that way did their parts and so gauled the Ennemie vpon the first proffer of a charge For the Prince seing the Ennemies horse advance commanded presently Count Lodwick to charge them namely with his Excies owne troupe Prince Henries and Count Lodwijcks who being seconded by these Horse Captaines Marcelis Bacx Paul Bacx and Monsieur La Sael their troupes as you maye see in the figure brake the Ennemies horse and putt them to a disorderly retreate After this the Battell began on all sides and the Ordnance from both sides played furiously one vpon an other The fight from the first beginning to the end of the Battaille continewed not onely in the Downes but also vpon the shirt of the Downes and in the bottome on the other side of them with diverse charges And therefore his Excie diuided his men into small troupes and divisions that he might bring the more men to fight at a time and to charge the Ennemie when occasion offred it selfe The fight growing hotter hotter Sr Francis Vere giving two Regiments of Spaynards their bellie fulls namely Don Lewes de Villars and Don Ieronimos de Monroy beating their Muskettiers to a retreat The Ennemie seing that advanced both his Battell and his Reere to bring them likewise to fight His Excie perceiving our men thus engaged in the fight caused also our Battell to advance gaue order to Count George Everard of Solmes to lead it on who with three French divisions of Muskettiers charged two Regiments of Spaynards and Italians The French Officers that led them on were these Captaine Du Puy Captaine Du Br●il Monsieur La Noue his Lieutenant Captaine Pommaride Monsieur Dommerville his Lieutenant Capt. Vander Burch Monsieur Du Forts Lieutenant The most of these came to handie blowes in the Downes being the first charge which the French made After this first charge of the Battell these Horse Captaines also namely Contelier Peter Panny and Battenburch charged the Ennemies Foote the Prince sending Count Lodwijck with sixe troupes of Curassiers to second them being accompained with Count Frederijck of Solmes His Excie gaue order againe that Count George Edward of Solmes should giue a second charge with the French who had the Avantgard of our Battell who were diuided into two troupes that on the right hand was led on by Monsieur Dommerville Lieutenant Coronell and that on the left hand by Captaine Sau. This was the second charge the French made who fought with a Battaillion of the Ennemies Pikes consisting of two Regiments the one was a Spanish Regiment commaunded by Don Alphonzo d' Avalos the other an Italian couducted by Iasper Sapena Maestro del Campo Count George Everard of Solmes retyring with these French was once more commaunded by the Prince to leade on Prince Henry of Nassaw his brothers the Wallons Regiment called the new Geux commaunded then by his Lieutenant Coronell Monsieur Markett the Swisser Regiment also commaunded by Hans Krick went on with them and fought stoutly doeing good seruice These two Regiments encountred and fought against Barlotte the Count de Bucquoy who commaunded the Ennemies Reere guard which consisted of three Walloon Regiments and some Irish Companies His Excie likewise commaunded Monsieur de Gistelles being of our Arreregard to goe on with his Regiment as also the Regiments of Coronell Huchtenbrooke that of Count Ernest commaunded by Monsieur Haysman his Lieutenant Coronell with these fiue Regiments Count George Everard Solmes charged the Ennemie as aboue said This fight lasted about three howers longe the Victorie being doubtfull on both sides sometimes the on side winning and otherwhiles the other side loosing ground The Princes Horse in charging the Ennemie putt them often to the worst of it our horse had continuall the advantage vpon them driving some of them to a retreate as farre as Nieuport The Ennemies foote fought with more advantage vpon the Downes then ours made the Princes men to quit on downe after an other so that our Ordinance was in hazard of loosing To returne againe to our Avantgard Sr Francis Vere gaue order that a hundred men should be sent frō the foremost troupes which he had layd as is aforesaid in the Downes to haue giuen on vpon the lest flanke of the Ennemie if they had attempted to passe by vs on the Sand and as covertly as they could to approch and fall on vpon the right flanke of those that were in fight with him when they were come vp and at hand neere the Ennemie he sent secretly by the hills where there was a hollow discent some sixty men more to charge them in their front which amazed the Ennemie much and made them run away our men following them charged and killed them till they had passed the bottome and came to their grosse from which they disbandied 500 Spaynards more the like number as before who followed our men and seized vpon some heights that were in the bottome some what neere vnto vs Their Pikes standing vnder the shaddow of the hills they played with their shott from the topp of them vpon our disbanded and skirmishing men Sr Francis Vere to driue them from thence being loath they should gaine ground vpon him sent more men out of the same by-waies from whence he had drawne the first before mentioned giuing then onely this order to make good that place This was a bloodie morsell which wee stroue for For whilest our men and theirs were not covered with the hanging of the hills as they advanced or wee chased so they lay open to the shott not onely of those that were possessed of those litle Hills but of the higher also who powred in a great tempest of short amongst thē so as these Souldiers which Sr Francis Vere had sent hasted for their safety to get the heath side of the hills The Ennemie also for the like reason abode their comming with the like resolution and so in a moment as the hills were rounde and mountable our men can to handie blowes vpon the whole demy Circle of them with much slaughter on both sides but in the end the Ennemie was forced to retire In the meane while the Ennemies Battaile of foote were come vp to the grosse of their Avantgard which as it had taken the right hand of the Downes so the battaile with some distances betwixt them though in an euen front having bene well gauld and beaten with our shott from the topp of the hills stood all in good covert as the place would afford frō whome they sent fresh men to beate ours from those grounds of advantage in the become As our men began to giue back Sr Francis Vere sent new supplies to make good that place in the bottome sometimes getting otherwiles loosing of ground The fight was still mainteyned with fresh