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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48744	Observations upon the warre of Hungary	Littleton, Edward, b. 1626.	1689 (1689)	Wing L2580; ESTC R18167	46,991	55

had been brought to them at Morea And why should not the Victuals be carried to the Men as well as the Men to the Victuals Moreover had the Army staid here if they could not have maintain'd themselves wholly they must have got something towards their Maintenance And the Winter in Morea is mild and gentle it being the most Southern part of all the Continent of Europe Also by their stay they had better protected the poor revolted Greeks who contrariwise were in a very hard Condition when they were abandon'd by their new Friends and left to the rage of their old Masters And this as the case here stands is one great Evil of a desultory Sea-War The Greeks are ruin'd by the Christians if they come not in to them and by the Turks if they do Such a War being fit to infest and destroy but not to protect This sending Men so far to Winter Quarters seems to be a new fashion And so doth the proclaiming beforehand the time and place of Rendezvous Caesar was nine years in conquering Gaul but we cannot find that ever he did either of these things If he had drawn back his Army every Winter to Quarter in Italy he might have been nineteen years about this Work and left it undone at last But his way was to Quarter them in the midst of their Business and either upon his Enemies or as near them as he could in several Camps which they strongly intrenched And when Spring came he did not use to make a formal appointment of a Rendezvous but by close Orders and without noise he drew his Men together and fell in among the Enemies where he was least expected as sudden as a Clap of Thunder Commonly the first notice they had of him was by seeing their Country in flames The Prince of Orange hath of late years given us a Pattern of a Rendezvous and it was at the Siege of Bon. To which Place he made his Army march from several Quarters and by several ways none of them knowing or guessing whither they were going or what they were to do till they all met at one and the same time their Marches being so admeasur'd under the Walls of the Town We heard they had invested the Place before we heard that they were marching towards it and we heard they had taken it almost as soon as we heard that they were before it This important Success may justly be accounted the first step of Holland's deliverance from the French. To shew the advantage yet further of keeping an Army close up upon the Enemy all Winter if it may possibly be done I shall here bring a domestique Example though the memory of it I confess is not pleasing Our rebellious Rumpers got their Victory at Dunbar in September after which they took in Edenburg Lieth and some other places with the Countries on this side Sterling and then the Winter came on They now well saw that these new Conquests would not be able to give Winter Quarters to their Army But did they therefore draw them back into England No not a Man of them they kept them all in Scotland And moreover they were sending them Recruits all Winter with the addition of divers new Regiments Then for their Subsistance they sent them by Sea both Victuals for their Men and Hay for their Horses So that against Spring their Army was more then doubled upon the place and ready for Action Here now were Fellows that prosecuted their Business to the utmost And surely without this vigorous Persistance they had not brought that Kingdom so soon under their Yoke nor forced the King to that most Glorious but withal most hazardous and only not fatal March into England To apply this Example I do affirm That the Christian Armies might as easily have been kept all Winter in Hungary or Morea as the Blaspheming Army so the Scots elegantly call'd it was in Scotland 15. The Magnanimous King of Poland is not to be blamed for the slack Proceedings of that Kingdom but all the fault must be laid upon their unhappy Constitution which seems to be meerly a tryal of Skill how far Monarchy and Republique being mixed together may enervate and confound each other And it is from the wretched defects in their Government that so mighty a Country makes so small a figure in the World. This King after the Relief of Vienna and the defeat of the Grand Visier in which glorious Service he had a principal hand and after the taking of Gran and some other Places retired into his own Kingdom the Quarters assign'd him in Upper Hungary being made too uneasy by Teckely's Garrisons Now the Poles consult how to prosecute the War. And since they joyn upon the Turk themselves they resolve to employ their Forces upon their own Frontier Which surely was well consider'd for now they might work for themselves whereas in Hungary they must work for another And as to the Common Interest and Service Diversion and Conjunction are equipollent or to speak more at length It doth as much good to divert the Enemy as to joyn with the Friend The Turks border upon the Poles in Moldavia which is a Christian Country but tributary to the Turks and at their Command being also Govern'd by a Vaivod or Hospodar appointed by the Great Sultan It was formerly dependent upon Poland and it is divided from it by the River Niester Into this fertile Country the Poles resolve to March. where they could meet with little opposition almost all the Turkish Forces being drawn into Hungary And we may be sure the Christian Inhabitants were not unwilling to be freed from their Servitude especially if fair terms were offer'd them But the Polish Levies and Recruits went on so exceeding slowly that it was toward the end of September before they got into the Field And then they were about a Month in laying a Bridge over the Niester So that by that time they were got into Moldavia it was towards the end of October And after they had been there some five or six days without doing or attempting any thing they found the Winter come on so fast that they concluded it their best way to March back into their Winter Quarters And they did March back to their Winter Quarters accordingly Was not this a most famous Expedition We may defy all Places and Ages to shew the like The next year they got sooner into the Field though not with so good an Army But the Turks having now recover'd their Spirits brought such a Force against them and beset them so close that they had much ado to make their Retreat By what hath been here related and observ'd it plainly appears That the Christians have lost the greatest Opportunity that ever they had against the Turks These last by the destruction of their Army at Vienna were brought to such a condition that they were no way able to resist the united Powers of the Germans Poles and Venetians Whose Force also was much increased by the great Sums of Money advanced by the Pope And the whole Turkish Empire was in a strange Consternation and Confusion But in this so favourable a Conjuncture the Germans engaged themselves before Buda against Sense and Reason where they were held in Shackles the Poles were asleep when they should have been most active and the Venetians spent their time and their Money in rigging out a Fleet to no purpose and then in playing at small Game Had the Christians on all sides and with their whole Power press'd briskly and vigorously upon the Enemy it is probably believed That the Duke of Lorrain might the very first year have beaten them out of Hungary the Venetians might have conquered Dalmatia and the adjoyning Countries and the King of Poland might have seized Moldavia together with Valachia which stood upon the same terms and Marched to Constantinople FINIS

Labour and Charge It is confess'd that Newhausel was a place important when Comorra and It were the Christians Frontier on the North side the Danube against Gran and Lewentz possessed by the Turks Gran and Comorra standing upon the River and Lewentz and Newhausel ten or twelve miles from it and the Turkish Towns being about thirty miles distant from the Christian About twenty miles more backward the Turks had Novigrad and Vacia standing like the other the first in the Upland the last upon the River and twenty miles yet farther back they have Pest Hatwan and Agria all abreast their Land on this side the Danube growing now broader This was the posture till about forty years ago and then the Turks took Newhausel Whereupon the Christians to curb this Garrison new-built Leopoldstat upon the River Waag and they strongly fortified Nitria upon the same River on which Newhausel stands Also now lately and after the Victory of Vienna the Christians took Gran and Lewentz and to come to the present time this year they took Newhausel Here it must plainly appear to any considering Person that by the Christians having Lewentz and Gran Newhausel was become useless And it became more useless by the Turks abandoning Novigrad and Vacia which happened soon after And it had become more useless yet if the Christians had fortified Novigrad or Vacia and had carried on the Frontier so far To say nothing of the Bridge upon the Danube which I so much fancied in the lines fore-going A strong Garrison there had covered all the Country behind it and commanded a great way forward But Newhausel is now deep within the Christian Quarters being almost seventy miles from any Turkish Garrison It doth not cover one soot of the Christian Country nor command one foot of the Enemies Was it not therefore a strange Resolution to bestow nothing upon Places that had been highly useful and to labour so much upon a Place that is wholly useless There was more need to slight two or three Garrisons about Newhausel than to make more As things are now there is not such a Cluster of Garrisons upon the face of the Earth Here stands Newhausel and behind it Leopoldstat within fifteen miles on the left hand Nitria in the same distance on the right hand Comorra within ten miles and Raab within ten miles more Then before it toward the Turks are Gran and Lewentz within thirty miles And these two last which are nearest the Enemy are almost forty miles from any Garrison they have So that this multiplying of Garrisons in this place serves to small purpose The condition of Affairs is now such that the Turks are not likely ever to come so far as Newhausel And what if the Scene should be alter'd and the Turks should advance with a mighty Force this way Were it better in this case that Newhausel lay rased to the Ground or were fortified as now it is and had a Garrison as now it hath of four thousand Men It seems very plain that it were better rased to the Ground For the Town might be well spared there being more than enow hereabout besides and the Men might be made better use of either in the Field or for the reinforcement of the Neighbouring Garrisons A convenient number of Garrisons well fortified and well mann'd is certainly the best Where they are too many they cannot all be well mann'd whereby some or other will become an easy Prey to the Enemy But they may prove hard to be recover'd and the Enemies nestling and fixing in them may prove the destruction of the whole Country So that too great a number is not only impertinent but also dangerous and pernicious If therefore a hundred strong Holds could be had with a Wish in the Christian Hungary more than now are there being we may presume enow already the next Wish should be to have them all demolish'd That the Mistake in fortifying Newhausel may more plainly appear I will make an Instance by Supposition in our own Country Suppose England and Scotland were under two distinct Kings as they are now happily united under One. The Scots take Barwick and then they take Newcastle with all the Places between And at last they take Durham also to curb which last as being the farthest advanced the English make several strong Garrisons near it Afterwards the English retake Newcastle and all the other Places Durham and Barwick excepted At another time they likewise retake Durham but having first ruin'd it with their Bombs and Cannon And hereupon the Scots demolish Barwick and abandon it Would not the World think us to be perfectly mad if we should now refortify Durham with might and main when it signifies nothing and should wholly neglect Barwick It is the very same case here The Danube is their Sea Vacia answers Barwick Gran is Newcastle and Newhausel is Durham 7. We must believe General Schultz to be a Person of great Courage and Activity One sign of it is this that he was always in the Field and at work some Weeks before other Men. Nevertheless he made no great progress having to do with a tough Enemy that held him hard to it The Places that he besieged were defended with the utmost Obstinacy Nor did Count Teckely fail on his part to use unwearied diligence in relieving them At last by the taking of Esperies and the investing of Caschaw it self Schultz seemed to have brought his Affairs into a very hopeful posture But now another is set over his head and takes his work out of his hands We cannot blame him for laying down his Command upon it 8. Count Caprara is the Man that now Commands at Caschaw He was first sent to Agria by the Duke of Lorrain upon an unusual Errand which was To take it if he could with Bombs And this design was publish'd to the World some time before it was put in Execution for all the Gazettes had it I think an Example will hardly be found of a Town this way taken Of a small Castel perhaps there may The French 't is true have attacqued some Towns in this manner as Oudenard by Land and Genoa by Sea. But this was not with any hope or expectation to take the Places The design therefore upon Agria was not like to succeed and it succeeded not 9. But Agria was only a thing by the by and though it be one of the chief Fortresses of the Turkish Empire yet it was to be taken by a party in their passage We must therefore know That this Force under Caprara was by the Duke of Lorrain sent chiefly against Count Teckely But how comes the Duke of Lorrain to concern himself thus with Teckely who had Schultz upon him already we thought the Duke had been engaged against the Serasquier and that the Serasquier with the Ottoman Forces was his Antagonist with whom he was to cope and to try Masteries And we expected that since the Duke had already worsted