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A32919	The campagne of the French King in the year 1677 In which is described exactly the three sieges and taking in of Valenciennes by assault, and of the town and citadel of Cambray, and of St. Omers, with an account of the Battel of Cassel. Licensed Sept. the 6th, 1678. Roger L'Estrange.; Campagna del re christianissimo nell' anno 1677. English.	Primi Fassola di San Maiolo, Giovan Battista Feliciano, conte, 1648-1713.	1679 (1679)	Wing C399B; ESTC R203952	44,521	161

THE Campagne OF THE FRENCH KING In the Year 1677. In which is described exactly the three Sieges and taking in of Valenciennes by assault and of the Town and Cittadel of Cambray and of St. Omers with an account of the Battel of Cassel Licensed Sept. the 6th 1678. Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Thomas Dring at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street 1679. THE CAMPAGNE OF THE French King In the Year 1677 c. NO sooner had those puissant Parties who were ingaged in a war that had divided almost all Europe seen the conclusion of the Campagne 1676 and the beginning of the Year 1677 but they began with equal heat and diligence to put their Armies into a condition to enter upon action and to give Life to those Negotiations on foot which might be advantagious to them The Estate of the Courts of Europe The Imperialists being re-assured by the Peace made with the Rebells of Hungary and the Circles of the Empire being full of hopes for the carrying the War on the other side of the Rhine every one for their parts formed very strong Armies The Spaniards to shew the Vigour of the new Government of Don John seemed to cover the Mediterranean with Ships and all Catalonia with Soldiers and making them in the low Countrys to expect mighty summs for their releif The Hollanders vexed at the evil success of the last Campagne did not only undertake to recrute their Troops but also to encrease them by new Levies France who alone regarding these preparations of so puissant Enemies was not asleep but put it self into a condition to resist all their endeavours The chance of Arms on the other side being against the King of Denmark the King of the Sweeds at the head of his victorious Army thought of nothing else but of reconquering those places which they had taken from him In the mean time the Assembly at Nimegen for the general Peace came together slowly and though the Ambassadors from all parties had waited on his Majesty the King of England who was chosen for a Mediator it might be easily judged that for the most part those Princes who had sent them had several Interests in prospect The Voyage of Flanders resolved on Things being in this condition after the French King had order'd a considerable part of his Armies for the Rhine for Catalonia and for Sicily he formed out of the Troops that were left a flourishing army for Flanders and resolved to command it himself in person He declared at the same time the general Officers which he had chosen to serve him in the several Provinces The names of the Commanders of the French Army He gave to Marshal Crequi the command of the Armie in Germany To the Marshal Duke de Navailes that of the Army of Catalonia The Marshal Duke de Vivonne was continued in Sicily And the Marshal de Humieres de Schomberg and Luxemburg Feuillade and Lorges were nominated to Command in Flanders under the Kings Orders The resolution of the French Kings departure was published on the 25th of February The Kings resolution surprises every body and equally surprised both the Court the Officers of his Armies French and Strangers The Season so little proper for Military Actions the Campagne unfurnished of Forrage the Feasts and divertisements which the King had made publique to hide his secret designs had deceived them all He had no Equipage ready and yet he must have it and would depart within three days The Duke de Villa Hermosa Governour of the Spanish Netherlands Chiefly the Duke De Villa Hermosa seeing so great plenty of Forrage and provision which they had made on the Frontiers did not amuse himself with the rigours of the Winter and not at all doubting but that the French were about to come thundering down upon him all on a sudden he aforehand re-enforced his Garisons and provided what was necessary in all places which he was able to succour and which he thought lay most in danger of Siege He also employed with great industry and indefatigable care and pains those Summs of Mony which they had remitted him out of Spain to put his Troops in good condition and he extreamly pressed the Hollanders to joyn themselves with him that they might joyntly oppose what ever the French should go about to enterprise The French Kings departure The Sunday Morning being 18th of February the King departs from the Castle of St. Germains where he left the Queen and Monsieur the Dauphin The most parts of the Princes Dukes and Lords of the Court following him in the quality of Volunteers The same day he arrived in Champaine the first of March he lay at Chauny the second at St. Quintin the third at Cate-cambresis Arrives at Valencienes and the fourth he came to the Camp before Valenciennes before the Equipage was arrived there and then it was that he first began to discover a part of his Intentions The French King the last year had laid the foundation of the Enterprises which he since so gloriously atchieved Those who did not penetrate into the business of the Conquest of Conde and Bouchain and who condemned the endeavours which had been made on Flanders because they believed it more necessary to conserve our Frontiers on the side of the Rhine now were able to perceive die weakness of their reasoning For indeed these two places did incommode those of Hanault and Cambresis and hindred them from all kind of communication the Baron of Quincy with a flying Camp reducing them to extremity He being a native of the Country knew perfectly all the Coast and understanding War so well as he did he not only hindred all commerce between those places but so opposed those Spaniards on that side that they were not able to make any inroads into Picardy nor receive those contributions they had established there nor subsist in their Garisons without much trouble These courses of the Baron of Quincy and the Magazins which they had made on the Frontiers in divers places shewed plain enough the designs that France might have upon Mons Valenciennes St. Guilain and Cambray but besides Ypres and St. Omer being also menaced by the grand preparations of Arms and Munition which they made on the side of Artois and of Boulonois it was difficult to judge the true intention of the French and they never imagined that they would enterprise more than one Siege at one time The Marquis de Louvois Secretary of State The activity of the Marquis de Louvois and chief minister for the carrying on of the War had so ably managed all things to forward the designs of the King and had joyned to his Counsels so much care and pains made voyages and given orders so to the purpose that assoon as his Majesty arrived in the Camp all things were in readiness to begin the Campagne The Marshal the Duke of Luxembourg who was departed from

to his Majesty of great Britain the Duke de Crequi Peer of France First Gentleman of his Chamber Duke Crequi sent into England Chevalier of the Orders and Governour of Paris He parted from Court with a Train of above an hundred Gentlemen The Princes who joyn'd themselves with him to pay their respects to their Majesties of great Britain in particular were the Count of Soissons the Duke of Boüillon and the Prince of Monaco The King of England sent into France the Earl of Sunderland and the Duke of York sent my Lord Duras Captain of his Guards The King desires peace The King might probably have encreased his Conquests by a fourth Siege and all the low Countries were in such a consternation and their Troops in so ill an equipage that it was no hard matter for him to have improved his victory but his Majesty had a mind to let all Europe understand that whatever advantage he had got by the continuation of the War that he had yet a stronger inclination for Peace and in order thereto he wrot to the King of Great Britain as a Mediator that he was ready to sign the Articles of Truce to give leasure to obtain the means for a conclusion of Peace After this the King distributed his Troops into their Quarters breaking in the mean time the course of his victories to let them see the disposition which he had to give repose to Europe and to put himself into a condition to enter upon new enterprises if in case the Confederates should not yield their helping hands to a proposition so reasonable The King retain'd about his Person a part of the Troops of his Horse The King visits the conquered places and went to visit all the places on the Frontiers and his Conquests in the low Countries He gave to Lieutenant General Cardonniere the charge of Camp master General of the light Horse vacant by the death of the Marquis of Reynel and made a Detachment of six thousand men under his conduct for to march on the side of the Meuse till further orders The charge of Commissary General which he had before was given to the Marquis Montrevil Brigadier of the Cavalry The twenty fifth his Majesty His voyage came to Gravelin and that night to Dunkirk The next day he visited the Port Ramparts and all other places of the Town The twenty seventh he went to Bergues the twenty eighth he returned to Callis where he gave a private Audience to Griffendal Envoy extraordinary from the Sweed There he also received the compliments made him from his Majesty of Great Britain and from his Royal Highness the Duke of York Receives envoys from England by the Earl of Sunderland and the Lord Duras who on the twenty ninth had their Audience of taking leave introduced by Monsieur Bonnevil Mounsieur returns to Paris Monsieur having left the King at Callis arrived on the third of May at Paris with those Gentlemen who followed him Madame Madamoselle and many other Princes Princesses and great ones of the Realm came to meet him there and to receive him The next day after his arrival he went to render his visit to the Queen in the Covent of the Carmelites in the Street of Bouloir and the fifth he went with all his Family to St. Germans to see again the Queen and Monsieur the Dauphin The same day Te Deum was sung in the Church of Nostredame for the conquest of St. Omer and at night Bonfires were made for joy The Popes Nuncio and all the Embassadors and Ministers and very many of quality of both sexes made their complements to his Royal Highness both for the taking St. Omers and for his victory at Cassel Is complemented The King having taken a turn about all the Sea places went into Artois with the Court and staid some days at St. Omers From thence on the ninth of May he made his entrance into Valenciennes and staid a while in the County of Hainault The fourteenth he went to Conde where he received news of the Sea fight which the Count d' Estree had gained over the Hollanders in the Port of Tobago in America In the mean time the Confederates established their head quarters in the Country of Vaes They had assured themselves of the Troops of Osnabruck Munster and Newbourg The brave Prince of Orange had projected great enterprises as well with the States General as with the Spaniards and the Confederates in all their marches made appear that they were contriving to revenge themselves of so many affronts they had received by the execution of some great design The King rallied all his Troops from their quarters of refreshment The King takes a review of his Troops the 22th of May took a general review of his right wing in the Fields of Thulin and the 23th he reviewed his left wing under Bossu in the Territory of Keeuvrain He found his Army more flourishing than ever being about forty Battalions strong and fourscore and ten Squadrons not comprehending those Troops which he had detached to reinforce the Army of Marshal Crequi nor those which were sent into the service of the Marshal Schomberg between the Meuse and the Moselle His Majesty left the command of those in Flanders with Marshal Luxemburg and went on the 27th thorow Quesnay and the 28th to Cambray the 29 to Chaune the 30th to Lioncourt where he was received by the Prince of Marsillas the grand Master of his Wardrobe The 31 in the morning Monsieur met the King at Bourget and at noon the Queen the Dauphin and the Princes and Princesses of the Court met his Majesty at Clichy from whence they went to Versailles The third of June the Marquis of Siegnelay presented to his Majesty the Messieures of Parliament and of the other Sovereign Courts and Magistrates of Paris Returns and is complemented who did make their set Speeches on the felicity of his Arms in that glorious Campain The fourth Monsieur Bonnevil introduced to his Majesty the Nuncio and all the Embassadors and Ministers Strangers who testified their admiration and joy for the swiftness and greatness of his conquests The Campain ended in three months And thus the King ended his Campain in three months of which he employed two in his Conquests and the other in disposing things to assure what he had got Time will shew the Importance and consequences of these things better than we can All that we may say is that after the three most considerable places in the low Countries both for their repute and fortifications carried with so great promtitude the hardest part of the work was over By these he had cover'd all his former conquests and put the frontiers of his Kingdom in a condition to suffer no longer from the inroads of those Garisons nor to suffer any Incommodity from the War FINIS