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A58098 A true and perfect relation of the battail and victory lately obtained near Lewentz against twenty five thousand Turks, Tartars, and Moldavians, by General Souches: as it was sent to His Imperial Majesty, dated July 20. 1664. Souches, Ludwig Raduit de, 1608-1683. 1664 (1664) Wing R309A; ESTC R217059 3,792 15

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A true and Perfect RELATION OF THE Battail and Victory lately Obtained NEAR LEWENTZ Against Twenty five Thousand TURKS TARTARS AND MOLDAVIANS By General SOUCHES As it was sent to His Imperial MAJESTY Dated July 20. 1664. LONDON Printed by Tho. Mabb living at St. Pauls Wharff 1664. A True and Perfect Relation of the Battail and Victory lately obtained near Lewentz as it was sent to His Imperial Majesty by General Souches Most Gracious Emperour and Lord AFter that I had received your most gracious Command of the 9th to watch my advantage upon the Enemy about Newhawsel I rose up from Tyrnaw notwithstanding my exceeding weakness of body and gained so much strength from the great zeal I had to encrease the already won reputation of these Armes your Imperial Majesty hath been pleased to entrust me with that I have been enabled to perform my Obedience to your Imperial Majesties most Gracious will in the manner following I sent the bearer hereof Adjutant-General Gregory of Kleindienst to the Earl of Buchheims at Comorra to have his Advice in the proposed Design and to hasten withal the march of the Pergenish Hussars and ordered likewise Field-Marshal Lieutenant Van Heuster the Enemy being marched away toward Lewentz to hasten to me day and night with his own Regiment a Troop of his Electoral Highness Palatines Guards and five Companies of the Montevertian Foot for that I intended to relieve Lewentz VVhereupon he came to the Leaguer at Freystattle on the fifteenth and the next day with six dayes Provision we came to Neutra where in five or six hours our whole Army got over the River The same day I marched within a mile of S. Benedict and at break of day set my men in Order and advanced towards the said place In the mean time came news that a thousand Tartars had passed the River Gran and fallen on a Party of three hundred Dutch and Hungarians under Collonel Kohari and the Brandenburgish Lieutenant-Collonel of Horse Commanded the day before our discamping out of Freystattle and killed forty three with the loss of sixty of their own VVherefore I hastned on with the Army and sate down at the foot of the Hill near St. Benedict And lest that the Enemy discovering us from the Hills should again cross the River and wholly possess themselves thereof I commanded out Field Marshal Lieutenant Heuster with the Brandenburgish Dragoons and six Troops of Horse following my self with the whole Body to the said River Gran where some of ours in their passing had little Skirmishes with the Enemy who still kept his Body upon the top of the hill I flung up presently four small Redoubts to plant Cannon and lay all night on the Banks An hour before day rose a Gentle wind driving the Clouds before it and they moving the Boughs and little trees in such manner that it seem'd as though the whole Enemies Army were on their March toward the Bergstadt This gave an Alarum to the VVatch the mistake being so genuine that I my self believed it and was a going to put my Men in Order to fore-stall their passage Yet had we an advantage by the false Alarum and got over the Gran in three severall places setting a Musquetier behinde each Horseman so that within two hours space our Army stood in Battail-Array Now to fulfill your Imperiall Majesties most Gracious Command I Ordered Colonel Kohari who fell in this Action very unseasonably for Us Colonel Caprara with a Lievetenant Colonel one Major two Captains of Horse the Brandenburgish Major Marowits with a hundred Dragoons in all they made Eight hundred men to fall upon the Enemy who stood in Battalia all along the top of the hill which as soon as the Enemy perceived and that our Army followed he purposed with a thousand men to have taken a passe at the Foot of the hill by a marsh which in dry weather is easie to go over thinking to surround us there since he was twice our Number But it succeeded ill with him For I plac't the Field-Martial-Lieutenant before the Right Wing and shewed him where he might best withstand the Enemy who already had laid a great Ambush on another passe too on the Right side Now as the Enemy thought to come on the Back or the Flanck of our Right VVing out of this Ambush the Heusterish Regiment and his Electoral Highness Palatines Company well received and repulst him In the like manner fell the best Janizaries and stoutest Turkish Horse by the Caprarish Squadrons and seeing the greatest danger to be in this place I made up to it my self and waited the Enemy with all manly Resolution This Squadron beat off the first On-set with great Valour but by reason the Enemy was more then four thousand strong they were forced a little to retreat to a litttle Ambuscade where the Brandenburgish Lieutenant Colonel lay with a hundred and fifty Dragoons who gave the Enemy such a Salvo that he was forc't to scatter whereby was given a little breathing room to the Caprarish and other Officers Squadrons who began to Rally again Of these were some Persons carelesse of their honour that came to the Baggage and cryed out that the whole Army was Routed and thereupon were some of our VVaggons plundred by other Rash Inconsiderable Fellows So soon as the Troops were again together and seconded with three Squadrons of the left VVing the Enemy likewise Recruited with fresh men and seem'd resolved to take a Revenge but I caused a Regiment of Infantry to advance with four small pieces which received him so bravely that he was constrained to draw back leaving behind a great Number of wounded and dead bodies Now as soon as the danger was over here and I could the better confide in the two Squadrons of Foot and the four pieces which were planted behind a great bush on the Enemies VVing I took from them the Caprarish Regiment of Horse other Squadrons Whereupon Colonel Count Caprara plac't himself with other Officers before his Regiment and with Major Marowits and his three Companies of Dragoons fought with good Resolution and Renown'd Courage against more then Eight Thousand Tartars and Moldavians Ours indeed often did here Repulse and were Repulst But I again upheld them with the Saxish and Brandenburgish Infantry and six small Pieces and caused the Enemy to give ground In the mean time the Major General Fought in the middle where the Enemy Charged with great fury but the Major General Answered him stoutly till we saw at length that the Tartars and Moldavians were totally Routed and so we got the Victory on three sides After this we Marched on the High-way to Lewents and it seem'd as if the Enemy would again Recover the Hill But in that they saw us make up anew our Squadrons and the Duke of Holstein march toward them with the whole Infantry and Artillery they began to fly VVhereupon the Squadrons of the Van and the left VVing and after the Heusterish