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A34352	Count Taaffe's letters from the imperial camp to his brother the Earl of Carlingford here in London giving an account of the most considerable actions, both before, and at, the raising of the siege at Vienna, together with several remarkable passages afterward, in the victorious campagne against the Turks in Hungary : with an addition of two other letters from a young English nobleman, a voluntier in the imperial army.	Carlingford, Francis Taaffe, Earl of, 1639-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing C592; ESTC R20027	16,653	38

Prince Aremberg's Cornet and Eighty Cavaliers were kill'd upon the place The Duke of Lorrain at length having with much difficulty drawn up the rest of the Horse hastned himself to us where finding the foremost Squadrons yet under a panick Fear alighted from his Horse at the Head of his Men to let them see there was no danger this Example gave fresh Courage to our Troops and the Dust being somewhat abated we discovered that all this Disorder was only occasion'd by Six Thousand Turks and Tartars We made up then to them his Highness being in the Head of us but they would not endure the very sight of our Troops and 't was in vain to follow them with our heavy German Horse since our Light Horse was wanting the Enemy flying with an incredible Swiftness But we learn'd from this that which we since found that these Six Thousand Horse were only to cover the gross of their Army with the which they thinking it not so much for their purpose to Attacque Raab as suppos'd was first design'd were marching directly to Vienna You will perhaps think it very strange that we should be no better inform'd of the Design and Marches of the Enemy but not so much when you hear that all Hungary was against us and not so much as a Peasant but for Teckeley And as for the Party that we sent out to scout on the Plains between Raab and Vienna there could not a Man of them ha've escaped had they been discovered such is the Number and Swiftness of the Enemy To conclude my Lord we are in a very desperate Condition All Hungary is against us the Court removed to Passaw All Austria round Vienna from Newstat and St. Hippolitt in flames and we not able to hinder it having now only a Body of Ten Thousand Horse at most left with the Duke of Lorrain Vienna has been besieged these ten Days and had not his Highness out of his great Prudence and Conduct clapt in Ten or Eleven Thousand Men into the Town in that nick of Time and the which was all the Foot he had in his Army by this time the Place had certainly been lost Bavaria is sending us Ten Thousand brave but unexperienced Souldiers and we shall be reinforced with Ten Thousand more from the Emperor The King of Poland is obliged by our Treaty to march himself in Person at the Head of his Army to the Relief of Vienna and the least Delay is lookt upon as most dangerous Saxony Franconia and Brandenburgh promise us their Troops God grant they may all come in time If Vienna should be taken I cannot see the end of our miseries but I hope God will not forsake his Cause nor the House of Austria that has been ever so devoted to him From the Camp at Angrem Aug. 17. 1683. For the Earl of Carlinford at London I Received yours of the Seventeenth of July from London and render God a thousand Thanks for saving our Royal Master the King and the Duke from that execrable Design of those wicked Assassines Good God! What Madness is this Let us view all Europe and see if we can find any Subjects so well treated or who do enjoy so blessed a Peace as those of England Or if there be any Nations in the World that do not envy the Happiness of ours I have so great a Detestation for those Infamous Villains that I shall henceforth look upon Turks and Tartars as the most honest Men. You have by this time doubtless received the Account I sent you of our Campagne from Passaw The Lord Lansdowne delivered it to the Spanish Ambassadour who promised to send it in his Pacquet to Don Petro de Ronquillio into England The Duke of Lorrain has since had the good Fortune with Fourteen Thousand Horse to give a Defeat to Tcckeley's Army consisting of Twenty Thousand Hungarians and Six Thousand Turks near Presburgh where he was going to possess himself of the Town and to be Crowned King of Hungary We marcht up towards them by a Defile i. e. Narrow Passage which they had lined with Dragoons and though the Enemy were drawn up in good Order they had not the Courage to make any opposition Our Avaunt Guard was scarcely past when a Panick Fear so seized those Rebels that they presently fled leaving the Turks to shift for themselves who for a time retreated orderly but the Poles seconded by some Regiments of our Curiasiers fell so furiously upon them that at last they were routed leaving a Thousand of their Men dead behind them with Twelve Hundred Wagons of Baggage whereof our Men had the plunder the Rebels Cavalry saving themselves by the Swiftness of their Horses and the few Foot they had in Woods and Mountains which were inaccessible to our Horse this blow was such a Terror to Teckeley that we saw him no more Vienna has now been five weeks besieged and although the Enemy took their Post the First day at the Foot of the Glassis under protection of the Suburbs which we neglected to demolish they have spent four weeks in only gaining one Point of the Counterscarp betwixt the Bastion of the Pallace and that of Lebell Five days ago they sprung a Mine under the Point of the Ravelin betwixt the said two Bastions where they gave a furious Assault in hopes to have made a Lodgment of it but they were repuls'd with great Loss and we have it from the Prisoners themselves as well as Spies we have in their Camp that they have already lost above Twelve Thousand Janizaries The Bavarian Succours of Nine Thousand Men are already arrived at the Bridge of Crembs those of Franconia being Eight Thousand will be here to Morrow The Elector of Saxony with Ten Thousand Men more is upon his March but can hardly be with us before the end of the Month. The King of Poland is also coming with Three or Four and Twenty Thousand Men and we are now about Three and Twenty Thousand Imperialists with which Troops we are resolved towards the end of this Month to succour Vienna or dye in the Attempt but if the King of Poland delay coming and we find the Town much press'd we shall endeavour the Relief of it without him they assure us that the Emperor intends to be with us in Person and I heartily wish it for his greater Glory We think to pass the Danube at Crembs a little Town about Ten Leagues up the River from Vienna the Country thereabouts is very Mountainous and Woody till you come within a little League of the place We shall have a Body of Thirty Thousand Foot if the Enemy come to meet us they must then forsake some of their Posts if they do not we shall have them betwixt us and the Town and the Scituation thereof is such that their Horse will be of little use to them in which consists their greatest Force My Lord Lansdowne is in great esteem with his Highness the Duke of Lorraine and