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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46314	A Journal of the war with Holland, since His Most Christian Majesty's departure from Paris, until his return with a continuation of what happen'd after the Kings return into France / translated out of French.		1673 (1673)	Wing J1109; ESTC R1988	75,113	194

he return'd for France In the morning as we said the Lyonnois Regiment's Battery began to play upon Crevccoeur and beat down a Redout which lay on the left side of the Fort toward the River so that some Soldiers which were in it were forced to abandon it and retire to their fellows in the Fort it self afterwards 100 Grenadiers were placed upon the Channel that comes from the Busse to hinder the communication of the Enemy with that place and a Serjeunt with 20 men lodged about 30 paces from the declivity of the works behind the ruines of a Redout which the Enemy had quitted and fired some days before The Grand Master of the Artillery came and brought with him 16 peices of Canon 8 of which were sent to be mounted on the Battery finished the night before in the Champagne Regiments quarter The Marquis de Ranes took with him all the Dragoons that were in M. de Turennes Army after dinner and went with them to the Count de Chamilly's with whom was the rest of the Vlymen Camp this Army was likewise now busied in carrying Faggots to set upon Crevecoeur on their side also The 18 his Majesty kept at Boxtel where nothing extraordinary happened The Battery of 8 peices of Canon which was begun the night before by the Lyonnois Regiment before Crevecoeur was finish'd and ready to play by break of day and the Enemy soon were made sensible of it by having 6 of their Guns dismounted in a little time on the Count Chamilly's side Trenches were likewise open'd from which they gave a false Alarm M. de la. Forest Lieutenant Colonel of the Dragoons went in the morning and caused all the Trees about the Avenues of his Camp to be fell'd to hinder the Enemy who was very strong in Heusden from setting on him behind but they attemted no such thing on the contrary the Marquis de Ranes after dinner accompanied by some of his Dragoons march'd towards them and beat back their Guards and made them retire within their Pallisado on purpose to entice them out to fight but none of them stirr'd only some volleys of small shot were let fly at us from their works In the mean time the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington the English Ambassadors having dispatch'd their business took leave and returned by Brussels that so they might require the Count Monterey the Governor of the Netherlands to withdraw all the Spanish Forces from the Dutch service or upon his refusal to denounce War against him in the name of the King of England and tell him that he would immediately fall to acts of hostility against the Spaniard Monsieur de Villacerre accompanied them to be a witness of their Conference and the English and French Fleet came up as far as the Texel with design to land if he refused assent to the proposal but the Count de Monterey made answer that the business was of such importance as he could not answer till he had acquainted his Superiors with it and therefore desired time till he might send to Madrid and then he would act according to the instructions he should receive thence An Officer that went a pickering with a party of Horse towards Breda met with a party of the Enemy and though ours was but 30 against 80 he made them give ground and after someresistance wholly routed them but 500 Peasants which had gathered together and strongly intrenched themselves endeavour'd to cut off the retreat of our men so that they were feign to force their way which they did happily enough through their first barricado but when they came to the second the case was altered for the Peasants had sent to the routed party of the Enemy to bid them rally and set on our men behind whilst they would oppose them before and stop their passage The project took so well that they defeated our party and though there were not many killed upon the place yet it fared the worse with them that scaped for falling into the hands of the Peasants there was no sort of cruelty which they endured not from them but they were not long unrevenged for the King hearing of their barbarous usage the same evening presently ordered a party to go and put all those Villages to fire and sword On the 19 which was the day following the Chevasier Fourille marched out by break of day with the Brigades de la Feuillée and de Roye and 200 Dragoons which M. de Ranes had sent him under the command of the Chevalier de Tilladet Camp master to the Regiment Collonel with orders to burn plunder and put to the sword all that they should meet and accordingly they burnt and plundered the Villages but the Peasants having heard of the design were for the most part fled so that few of them fell into our hands but being very near Breda some Dragoons who were commanded to set fire at any place where they could went up to the very Gates of the Town and there fired some houses whilst the rest of the party and the Horse defended them this troubled the Town a little who thought sure thereupon that we were coming to besiege them The Governor of Crevecoeur finding we should now soon be in a condition to assault the Place resolved to stand out no longer and that he might get the better conditions went himself to make them so he came forth and desired to speak with M. de Turenne who gave order he should be civilly intreated but would not see him He only disarmed the Garrison and because we had more Prisoners then we could well tell what to do with he had them all conducted a league from the Place and there gave them their liberty as he had done before to those of Nimegen among which he had found 500 or 600 Citizens of Vtrecht whom he sent to their own homes Hinkel which is a little Fort between the Busse and Crevecoeur was taken by the Count de Chamilly with more ease then he himself did expect for the Garrison either being frighted or having heard that we intended to assault them quited it after having set fire on their powder and the houses of the Fort a part of which were notwithstanding saved The 20 the King who continued still at Boxtel having heard of the surrender of Crevecoeur came and viewed the Fort and afterwards returned whilst M. de Turenne passed over the Island of Bommelle and sent and summoned the Town which bears the same name The Inhabitants were at a stand what answer to make on one side they found not themselves in a condition to hold out a long Siege and despaired of being relieved they likewise saw that many Towns better fortified and Garrison'd then they had not been able with all their strength to defend themselves and that all the Country round about them was already in our possession but on the other side also they remembred that they had formerly born up against all the

was discover'd and he withal gave notice of his coming which was but ill news for the new Conqueror who by this means was not like to wear his Laurel long Hereupon the Townsmen began to change their note and declar'd they would not suffer themselves to be plundered by us and therefore bid the Governor shift for himself which he could no otherwise do then by sending to desire a Pass from M. Chamilly that he might come and capitulate with him which he did and was suffer'd to return again to the Busse with his 100 Horse he mentioned not the Foot in the capitulation which he thought was so far behind that he might easily give them notice to retire homewards and none of us the wiser But to their misfortune he was out in his calculation for M. de Joyeuse met with them who though he had then with him but a small party of the Brigade of Horse which he commands the rest being gone before under command of the Marquis de Tury to recover the Town he fell upon them so furiously that they had only time to make one discharge at us In this Encounter most of the Enemy were kill'd and the rest taken so that there hardly escap'd one to carry home the bad news we got at this bout 33 Colours The night that follow'd and the sixth day there hapned a Fire in the Kings Quarters which began in the Duke of Monmouth's House and burnt down together with some others the damage the Duke had by it was computed to amount to 100000 Crowns The fire reached the Kings Stable and destroyed many Horses and their harness and at last grew so dreadful that the King was forced to rise least the fire should also come to his Appartment many of his Pages having had their cloths burnt We heard of the ill success of Monsieur de Nancrud's attempt upon Ardemburg which had faild by his guides and spies saults these having misinform'd and the other misled him The Particulars of that business were as follows Word was brought to him that the Garrison was both very small and also negligent which made him resolve to try if he could surprize it and to that purpose he order'd his march so as to arrive before the Place at midnight with a design to attaque it in four several places at once but it so happen'd his Guides either not being sufficiently acquainted with the Country or mistaking their way in the dark that his whole party met at the same place and so were forc'd to make their attaque all on one side of the Town which being perform'd very couragiously they beat out the Enemy and gained a half Moon which Post designing greater things they cared not to secure from the Enemy's shot but day at last begining to break the Enemy who had receiv'd supplies from Sluice now made more vigorous resistance and having discover'd our men who lay leuel and open to their shot kill'd many of them so that they were forc'd to retire with loss of 1000 or 1200 men The Marquis de Ranes went to Isselstaing and Monfort leading thither some Dragoons to reinforce those Garrisons The same day about evening the King came to visit Vtrecht and he was scarce gone thence when the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington Embassadors from the King of England arriv'd hoping to have found his Majesty there to whom they were sent by the King their Master The 7 the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington went from Vtrecht to the Camp at Zeist where the King presently gave them Audience after which a Courier was dispatch'd to the King of England who was mightily sollicited by the Dutch Ministers to a Peace The Enemy came and attaqu'd Oudwater and beat back our horse Guard after having killed 5 or 6 of them with the like loss on their side but the Alarm being streight given to Monsieur de Rochefort he presently went to their assistance as did also the Marquis de Ranes with his Regiment Royal of Dragoons but they at their arrival found the Enemy retir'd so that all these supplies kept a guard all that night upon the Place The Musqueteers who ever since the surrender of Vtrecht had been either within the Town to secure it or encamp'd just before it with Monsieur de Rochesorts Army return'd now to the Kings Camp at Zeist a part of whose Guard they were The three Bataillons of the Regiment of Guards which the Duke de Roannez had with him in the same place did the like and in their stead were sent thither one Bataillon of the Kings and another of the Queens Regiment the Regiment of Castelnan the Royal Regiment de la Marine and that of Suitzers whose Colonel is the Sieur Stouppe who also commanded the Place as belonging of right to him whilst that the King had yet appointed no Governour of it The rest of the Regiment of Turenne was sent to Naerden to relieve those of the Dauphin's which lay there and many foot were sent to reinforce M. de Rochefort's Army which his Majesty intended to leave about Vtrecht as well to keep all that part of the Country quiet as to hinder the Hollanders Armys which lay not far off from attemting any thing upon the new conquered places that lay that way The eight in the morning Monsieur de Rochefort order'd some powder and shot to be sent to Oudewater with a Convoy of horse and then he returned with the Troops he had brought the day before The Marquis de Ranes came back also with his Regiment Royal of Dragoons The King prepar'd to leave Zeist and the Cardinal de Boüillon went and consecrated the Church of Vtrecht which was perform'd with great pomp to the great Joy of an infinite number of Roman Catholicks who impatiently expected that day The 9 the Duke of Luxembourg returned to the Kings Army with the Marquis de la Valiere having left his Baggage and Equippage near Emerick and the command of his Army to the Bishop of Munster who came likewise to give the King a visit and then returned towards Frizeland where since he hath done the Enemy much harm The Marquis de Ranes who during all this Campagne had commanded the Regiment Royal of Dragoons left that and took the command of the Regiment Colonel and went to the Kings Camp to follow his Majesty The next day the Prince who had been conveyed to Arnhem and continued there ever since his Majesty left that place found himself worse then he had been of his wounds and was much tormented with a fit of the Gout The King gave 8000 livres among those who had lost their horses in the late fire The 10 the King left Zeist which lyes within 2 leagues of Vtrecht where he had lain 8 days and went back to encamp between Rhenen and Wageningen The Duke of Luxembourg went to the Camp before Vtrecht to command that Army which M. the Marquis de Rochefort left to