Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	foot_n	horse_n	squadron_n	1,059	5	11.6685	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52650	A Narrative of the progress of His Most Christian Majesties armes against the Dutch with the names of the several places taken, likewise a letter from His said Majesty to the Queen of France, giving an account of his passing the Rhine at Tolhuys : with a list of the French nobility killed and wounded in that action.	Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1672 (1672)	Wing N221; ESTC R3045	6,370	11

to oppose the Horse I intended to send over on the Right and Left of the Batteries while I was making a Bridge of Boats in the mean time to pass over the Foot upon upon the Information brought me by the Count de Guiche I commanded Two Thousand Horse of the Left Wing to pass the River under the Command of the said Count at the Ford which he had discovered over against Tolhuys The Regiment of Cuirassiers was to pass first of which ten or twelve commanded men to pass over sometimes by Fording it and sometimes by Swimming espy'd Three Squadrons advancing towards them from behind the Hedges and Willowes and were at first briskly charged by the Officers of the First Squadron they Drawing back some few steps in the River till those that followed to second them could come up made their way afterwards with their Swords in their hands so bravely and resolutely that the Second and Third Squadron with the fright of it discharged at random in the Air and ran The First which hitherto had set a good face upon it gave back as well as the others to which the continual Fire of our Canon did not a little contribute and now the rest of the Horse were all passed over at the Ford one party of them advanced towards the Enemy under the Command of the Count de Guiche and the rest stood in Battalia on the Bank of the River This Action was accompanyed with all the Success and Glory we could desire having lost very few Horse in the Passage Nogent being the onely Person of Note that was drowned But afterwards as ill Fortune would have it the Prince to whom I had sent not to pass the River was already gone before my Orders reach'd him in a small Boat to see what Men we should put into the Castle of Tolhuys and to informe himself better of what passed on the other side of the Water so that not knowing any thing of my Design and seeing the Prince of Condé and Duke de Longueville advance upon the Spur towards a Barricade where the Three Squadrons I mention'd before had joyn'd themselves with some other Horse and Foot he made all the hast he could thither and was follow'd by several others who now began to keep no Measures after such an Example At first the Prince and those other Gentlemen astonished the Enemy with their Threatnings and their Presence and besides the Count de Guiche surprising them in the Reare with some Squadrons had pressed them so close that they put themselves in a posture of yielding on Condition they might have Fair Quarter But Monsieur de Longueville having passed the Barricade and crying Kill kill No Quarter and as some say discharged a Pistoll upon them out of pure despair they made one Volley more in which the Prince of Condé had the bone of his left Wrist broken Monsieur de Longueville and Guitry were killed upon the Spot and several others were killed and wounded which you will see in the following List If we had had a little patience not one of those men had escaped our hands the Comte de Guiche had begirt them close on one side and should have faln upon them on the other with the other Squadrons and the Foot which by this time were almost all passed in their Boats whereas through our own precipitation the routing them has cost us very dear this excepted all things are in a very good condition as to the Bettaw and I have much cause to praise God for the happy Success of this Enterprize and to promise my self great advantages by it Dead and Wounded Dead Monsieur de Longueville Monsieur de Guitry De Nogent drowned Daubusson Marq. de Teobon Brouilly mortally wounded Some Gentlemen wounded The Chevalier des Essars dead of his Wounds Wounded The Prince his Wrist broken Mons de Marsillac his Shoulder-Bone broken Mons de Vivonne lost his Hand The Comte de Sault wounded in the Chin. De Beringhen through the Body The Duke de Coaslin his Hand broken Termes cut cross the Face La Salle Ayde de Camp Five Wounds with a Sword Renelle of the Cuirassiers wounded in three places Du Mesnil Montauban wounded with a Partizan The Marq. D'Aubeterre The Marq. de Maurevert Five wounds Beauvau Ayde de Camp to Mons de Rochefort wounded in the Face FINIS