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A46313	A Journal of the Venetian campaigne, A.D. 1687, under the conduct of the Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark, [brace] [brace] Providitor Gen. Cornaro, General Venieri, &c. translated from the Italian original, sent from Venice, and printed by order of the most serene republick.		1688 (1688)	Wing J1107; ESTC R39041	35,865	54

that manner that they took up two Miles in Front with a Battery of two pieces of Cannon In the Night by the favour of the Darkness the most Excellent Sanudo with a Squadron of Eight slender Gallies pass'd within the Castles on purpose to destroy the Barks to the end the Turks might be depriv'd of the Opportunity of transporting their Soldiers out of Grecia into Morea The 23d the Galeasses and one Pinnace got within Musket shot of the Face of the Battery and in less than Three Hours with their prow-Cannons beat it down and in many places ruin'd their Trenches and with another Pinnace that shot Stones drave the Turks quite from their post The 24th this Morning which was St. Christins day beginning their March again by Break of Day in regard they had a long way to go they March'd but slowly and keeping an exact Order at what time General Coningsmark shew'd his great Knowledge in Military Discipline The Enemy abandoning their Breast-work upon the Coast and leaving their Tents began their Approaches nearer and nearer to our Army making a shew of great Resolution but soon after turn'd their backs as if they intended to flee But the more uncertain their Motions were so much the less did we alter our March yet with an Ardent desire however to come to handy strokes At length after eighteen hours thus spent the Barbarians approached and began to Skirmish with a Batalian of the Oltramarine's Commanded by Colonel Ceclina at what time our Forces embodying and the Enemy approaching with all their Forces the Sign of Battel was given and the Christian Army prepar'd themselses for the so long experienc'd Tryal of their Valour The Turks fir'd very thick with their Muskets upon the Oltramarines which were upon the Right Wing and with their Swords in their hands made a bold Attaque upon their Rear But then the Oltramarines being bravely flank'd by the Frisian Horse of the Left Wing ply'd their Small-shot so nimbly that the Enemy slacken'd their Fury and were repuls'd with great loss Quitting therefore this Attaque they made another Assault upon the Brunswickers in Flank where intending to have broken in with their Swords in their hands they met with such a solid and vigorous resistance that being well mortify'd with the well order'd Volleys of the Muskets and seeing many of their Men fall dead upon the place after a close Fight of four hours maintain'd by our Men who upon all occasions were still succour'd by the Sclavonians and the Cavalry they betook themselves to an ignominious flight being valiantly pursu'd by the Oltramarines and by the Marquess Corbon with his Cavalry However General Coningsmark would not suffer ours to pursue the Enemy very far for fear of falling into any Embuscado and because he would not that the Army should break their Order So that the Turks making haste to their Tents pull'd up the greatest part at what time they in the Piazza of Patrass setting fire to a Magazine of Amunition joyn'd with the rest and leaving in a moment all that compass of Ground in our Possession they all disappear'd In this Fight singular was the Conrage and Experienc'd Conduct of General Coningsmark and the valorous Arm of the Prince of Turrena did great Execution who being joyned with the Marquess Corbon lead the Horse Nor did the Prince of Brunswick less generously behave himself who with his Troops was still in the hottest of the Action The Death of Colonel Ceclina shot in the Breast with a Musket-Bullet is univerfally lamented who being by Nation an Oltramarine tho' he had lost his Chief Commander understood so well with so much vigor to humble the furious Pride of the Muselmen Of whom there were Five hundred slain upon the place and 't is believ'd a great many more were kill'd in regard of the great number of Tents that were left for want of Owners We took five Pieces of Artilery besides two Pieces of Cannon which were found planted upon the shore within their Trenches when at the beginning of the Fight the General order'd the Volunteers to land on purpose to divert the Enemy On the other Side we had little loss in regard we kept the Enemy at a distance with our Muskets It added also to their greater fear for that the General in the heat of the Fight had caused a great number of the Seamen to land who possessing themselves of the Trench aforesaid found therein the two fore-mentioned Brass Pieces and two others at a little distance from thence which form'd the Battery already spoken of besides which the Enemy left behind them six Field-Pieces which they lost in the Conflict Great was the number of the Ottoman Colours which the Christians brought away as Trophies of their Valor and that which added to the Glory of their Triumph was their taking of three Ensigns with Tayles besides a very rich Standard guilded with which the Fringe and Blazon were evident Signs of the Basha-Generalship of which the Serasquier is depriv'd His Flight together with that of the Army was immediately followed by the Flight of their other Party at Rumelia and the abandoning their Tents And the Night after his Excellency understanding that the Turks had left the Castle of the Morea he turn'd the Prows of his Galleys and he no sooner came in sight of the place but he saw some part of the Wall toward the Sea on Greece side blown up by Gun-Powder and the Castle left under the Dominion of the Venetians with forty Pieces of Cannon The General for all this would not suffer his wonted heat for the Good of his Country and Christendem to cool but held on his Voyage for Lepanto to make the advantage of his good Fortune during this Consternation of the Turk And indeed the Favour of Heaven prosper'd his zealous Designs for the Barbarians being still more and more seiz'd with Panick-Terror could not endure the sight of our Vessels so that seeking their safety in other places they retreated and left to the Victorious Venetians the Piazza itself And thus to the great wonder of every one this most Signal Victory was obtained through the Favor of the God of Hosts with the most Glorious Conquest of four Fortresses in the turning round of one Sun By which the Public gain'd One hundred and sixty Pieces of Cannon almost all Brass besides a great quantity of Provisions and Warlike Amunition together with fourteen Pyrate Barks So that the most Serene Republic now Commands a most Delicious Fertile and Spacious Gulph a Spacious and Rich Country to the incredible Contempt and Loss of the Persecutors of the Holy Religion and the Christian Faith. Carlo Pisani Captain of the condemn'd Persons is also designed by His Excellency to take all the Turkish Vessels which he can find in the vast Gulph of Lepanto So that after such mature and timely Provisions we have no reason but to promise ourselves from the Assistance of God for the future Progresses of

most Remarkable Consequence for the Honor of the Christian Armies and the greater advantage of our Invincible Republic From the Fleet in the Bay of Corinth August 17. 1687. SO glorious was the Fame of the Valour of the Venetian Armies upon the Overthrow given to the Serasquier in the late Battel in the Campains of Patrass and by the gaining of Patrass Lepanto and two Castles besides that the Turks now taught by the fortunate Success of the Christians are sufficiently convinc'd that Fortune which for so long time has favour'd the Ottoman Armies to the great Oppression of the Christians has now forsak'n their Side After these glorious Acquists we understand that Kamor Basha of Avaruti and Gavar Basha of Vallona both fell under the Valor of the Venetian Victors being the Persons who were order'd to guard the Shore of the Continent from this Place to the Prevesa and that of an Hundred and twenty Colours which they had to every one of which belong'd fifty Men that only three remain'd safe the rest were all destroy'd They reck'n lost of the Ottoman Side about a thousand slain outright and above as many more wounded which dy'd in the hasty flight which the Serasquier made to Corinth For the greater Proof of which there are many Carcasses to be seen upon the Road. Besides a great many which are also found in the Country Houses by our Adventurers who range the Country to make Slaves of both Sexes who averr that the Enemy were about Twelve thousand being recruited but a little before with Three thousand Soldiers from Negropont Mustapha Basha who guarded part of Rumelia that is to say the Castle and City of Lepanto fled with equal Cowardice without being pursu'd and abandoning all was followed by a few of his own Men the rest to the number of Eight thousand taking the Hill-way while he with hardly Fifteen hundred march'd toward Salona But that he had not march'd far before he was met by Ismael Basha who brought along with him about a thousand Soldiers from Salonich who then turn'd back also and stopp'd two days March from Salona giving out a Report that the Reason of his Flight was upon a Rumor of the Death of the Serasquier which happen'd soon after the Fight but understanding afterwards that he was at Corinth he departed also from thence without any hopes of ever being reconcil'd to him again for fear of proving the fatal Effects of his Anger How great the fear of the Serasquier was may be easily conjectur'd by his causing part of the Houses of the Fortress to be burnt so soon as he came to Corinth Which Fortress stands upon the top of an Hill three Miles and more distant from the Sea. He also burnt a good part of the City to hinder the Christians from taking Possession of it commanding also all the Families of the Turks to depart the Morea and hast'ning the flight of those from the places abandon'd and to facilitate their Motion leaving the Remainder of his Baggage and his Army at Thebes He attributed it very much to his good fortune that he was not pursu'd by us as he thought he should have been which enabled him to save the Remainder that were left him and those that were spread through the Kingdom The foresaid Places were provided with Governors in Patrasso the Signior Gerolamo Priuli under the Title of Proveditor Extraordinary Signor Pietro Grioni is made Constable Tadio Gradenigo was made Proveditor Extraordinary of Lepanto and the Marquess of Meliluppi Constable of the Castle In the Castle of the Morea Marco Barberigo is design'd for Proveditor and for Governor of the Castle Geronimo Tiepolo In the Castle of Rumelia was design'd for Proveditor Ordinary Aloisio Sagredo and because the Castle of Tornese is since surrender'd Zorzy Toscarini was sent thither to Command it At the same time the Places were all successively provided of Governors Chaplains Physitians Chyrurgeons Hospitals Medicines and all necessary Provisions for War and Food There are many Families of the Gastuni and of their Ample Territory which contains an hundred Towns who desire to be admitted into the holy Faith. To which purpose there is intended a Solemn Office of Baptism and to perform the Solemnity with peals of Cannon and with all other Demonstrations which may serve the more to confound the Ottoman Sect. For this glorious Conquest by which was gain'd the Possession of all the the Morea all due Thanksgivings were rendered to the God of Victory with peals of Cannon from the whole Fleet and in the foresaid places Te Deum was sung with a general consent Afterwards the whole Fleet set Sail for the Coasts of Corinth whither a small Squadran had been sent before to secure the Position of some places for because this Gulph is usually very tempestuous it did not fail to shew its fury at this time there being no Port for an hundred Miles together on the Morea Side and on the other Side only a small Bay very incommodious and capable to receive but few Vessels Upon our approach to the Great Bay of Corinth there were some Horses still to be seen and the Fire was still burning which the Bassa had set to the Houses But the Enemy soon disappearing we understood by the Country People who came to humble themselves with the Primates of that place that those of Misitra Caritenae Drapolizza and other Towns who had randezvouz'd to one particular Town that they might march in an intire Body still stay'd at the Entrance into the Morea and were under the Command of Mahomet Bassa who stay'd at Caritena and had about Two thousand Men the rest to the number of Ten thousand Families being all the Inhabitants of the said deserted Places There were found in the City many Pieces of Antiquity among the rest a Statue of Janus We had also the opportunity in our Voyage to see in the opposite part of Rumelia the Mountain of Parnassus the Fountain of Helicon so much celebrated by the Poets not far from which there stands a Town which preserves the Name still And not far from thence stands Pindarus now all over Wooddy the Grandeur of those Ages being all devour'd by Time and vanish'd It was thought fit to send back the said Vessels to the Castle of the Morea and while they were considering what other Important Actions to go upon they did not forbear to mind one thing of Principal Moment which was to take a strict view of the Streight and of the Place itself as well in order to necessary Deliberations as to find out a way to prevent the Return if they should attempt it of the Turks into the Morea which as it could not be performed but with a strong Force therefore they set Sail with the whole Fleet to that Station where they Imbark'd all their Companies of Foot marching the Cavalry by Land They also fill'd some of the fourteen Galeots which they took in the Port of Lepanto with Italian Soldiers