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A58469	A Relation of what most remarkably happened during the last campaign in Ireland betwixt His Majesties army royal, and the forces of the Prince of Orange, sent to joyn the rebels, under the command of the Count de Schomberg.		1689 (1689)	Wing R896; ESTC R39095	9,940	16

the brightness of the Arms with the glittering reflections from the broad Syths which most of the Foot were Armed with Instead of Pikes seem'd to strike some Terror into the Enemies Army His Majesty attended by Count d' Avaux and some Persons of Quality of his Court was upon the Deseent of the Hill nearer advanced towards the Enemy than the Right Wing A Squadron of about 60 Voluntiers being for the most part Officers of his Majesties Houshold were upon a lower Ground and somewhat nearer to the Enemy at the very Entrance of the Pass towards the Bogg which Party was Commanded by the Right Honourable my Lord Hunsdon and some other Reformed Officers of Note My Lord Thomas Howard Riding Right-hand-Man of the first Rank and Marched directly up to the very Entrance of this Passage which leads through the Bogg to Dundalk to secure which the Enemy at the Mouth thereof had strongly Entrenched themselves with a party of Dragoons Schomberg conceiving his Majesty intended to force his Pass and so to enter Dundalk Commanded his Iniskilling Foot to Advance to the Entrance of it towards the Town and supported them with a Squadron of Horse and strongly Lined all the Entrenchments behind them towards the Town with Musqueteers His Majesty observing these Motions of the Enemy Posted some Dragoons on each side this Pass further Advanced beyond the Voluntiers to Flank the Enemy in case they should attempt to Advance and some Foot-Granadeers ware advantagiously put into several little Cabbins at the winding of this way not a Musquet-shot from the Enemy who stood at the Head of the Defiles Here hapned some little Skirmishes but no considerable loss to either side And after that his Majesties Army had been thus drawn up for three hours in view of the Enemy during which time several Acclamations and Shouts Ecchoed from them as Men full of Courage and Resolution to Fight nothing of which could provoke the Enemy from their Holes nor was any thing else attempted by them His Majesty Commanded the Army to March back to Alers-Town the left Wing of each Line being then the Van-Guard the the King himself remaining in the Rear of his whole Army there expecting the Enemy would Detach some strong Party to observe his March but not a Man of them stirred No sooner was Count Schomberg come into Ireland but he presently sound he had great reason to suspect the French Troops especially those who were newly raised and had Deserted in Flanders as well as the Irish and most of the English which he brought over with him and this could not well be prevented for the Prince of Orange being extreamly put to it for want of Men to Invade Ireland was forced to Inlist every body he could get without further Examination having even admitted without any Distinction all the French Deserters which his Adherent had sent him from the Low Countreys But what increased the Doubt and Jealousies of this Old General was the Proclamation set out by his Majesty and the Conditions he therein offered to such as were his own-Subjects and those that were Forreigners in case they would Desert the Enemy and embrace the Justice of his Quarrel against them And also the Declaration of his Excellency the Count d' Avaux pursuant to the Pardon Granted by his most Christian Majesty to such of his Subjects that had Deserted his Service and were then in Schomberg's Army in case they would forsake it and Inlist themselves in the Service of his Majesty of Great-Brittain Reflecting on these things with the several Notes dispersed to the purpose thereof through his Camp he thought himself obliged more to Guard himself against the growing Dangers in his own Army than to think of advancing any further against the Kings He presently enjoyned every body upon pain of Death not to stir out of his Camp. The Provost-Marshal was always abroad and he promised a Reward of five Pistols for every Deserter that should be brought to him and to strike a terror into every body he caused several to be Hanged upon a bare suspicion that they intended to Desert Distrusting 500 French he Disarmed and stripped them of their Cloaths all in one day and presently Shipp'd them back for England from thence as credibly reported to be sent into the Islands of America Notwithstanding all this severity Deserters came daily to the King who from time to time gave an account of the great numbers of the Sick and the mighty scarcity of Schomberg's Camp tho' supplyed with all Necessaries by his Shipping as much as they could possibly bring him His Majesty having Notice of these advantages against the Enemy resolved to reduce them to greater straights by destroying all the Forrage they had yet left before their Camp and along the Sea-Coast To effect which he Detached a considerable Body of Horse and Foot to defend another Party that were sent to bring with them all the Forrage they could carry and then in sight of Dundalk they Burnt all that was left for four Miles together without the least opposition of the Enemy Count Schomberg suffering all these things made us easily believe he with his Army was but in a bad Condition and not able to undertake any considerable Action and to prevent the Danger of a panick fear in his Army he amused them with the Expectations of 10000 Danes which he expected daily and deluded them with false News of great Defeats which the Rebels his Adherents had given his Majesties Forces in other parts of the Kingdom and caused them to make publick Demonstrations of Joy for those Fancied Victories It would have been a Mistory to the King's Party even to this minute had we not been informed by several Deserters why he caused three Volleys of small Shot and three Peals of his Cannon both from the Ships and from the Shoar which they say was for Joy of a Great Victory obtained by the Rebels against the King at Connaught that his Majesty could never hear of to this day Sometimes he kept up their drooping Spirits by giving out that Dublin would be suddenly surprised by some Troops that he had sent thither for that purpose by Sea which were actually Landed there and that all the Inhabitants of that great City had joyned his Party and Declared themselves for him 'T is true that their Ships came to an Anchor in Dublin-Road and that they began to Land some Men when many Persons of Quality as Voluntiers with the Militia of that County both Horse and Foot Marched in good Order to the Sea-side to oppose their Design being Conducted by the Right Honourable the Lords High-Chancellor and Chief Justice of that Kingdom who soon obliged them to retire to their Ships which then immediately put to Sea and that City was so well managed that it remained still in perfect Peace by the great Care and Conduct of the Honourable Simon Luttrell Collonel of Dragoons and Governour of the Place where by his Prudence he

directed The Commander of Dundalk to the Commander of the Enemies Army And was sent by a Trumpet but produced no Answer The Right Honourable my Lord Mou●tcashel one of his Majesties Lieutenant-Generals sometime Prisoner of War and very much indisposed by great and dangerous wounds lying then at Iniskilling a place most unwholsome in its scituation believing he had to do with a Generous Enemy and according to the usual Method of Honour did therefore reasonably enough propose to himself that he might obtain his Liberty of Count Schomberg upon his Parol to go to Dublin where he might have better Accomodation for his Cure and then to return Prisoner To which purpose 〈◊〉 Lord writ to Sir Richard Neagle his Majesties Secretary of 〈…〉 him to write in his own Name to Monsieur de Schomberg 〈◊〉 ●ection of which Letter was to the Marshal de Schomberg 〈…〉 sent by a Trumpet who met him Northwards upon 〈…〉 beyond the Newry The Letter was delivered to his Secretary who soon after returned it to the Bearer telling him that his Master could not receive it because it was not directed to him as Duke which Quality he said was due to him And the Secretary at the same time delivered a Letter from himself to Sir Richard Neagle in which he gave the same Reasons for refusing his Letter and further added that his Master had renounced his Title of Marshal when he 〈◊〉 France for his Religion During all this time his Majesty prepared himself with all diligence and expedition imaginable to Rendezvous his Army at Drogheda which was the better effected by the time the Enemy lost in the Siege of Carickfergus and by the slowness of Schombergs March through the difficult Passages of the Mountains with his great Train of Artillery and Baggage and through the deep Ways from those Mountains to the Newry which his Grace the Duke of Berwick had left very uneasie to the Enemy and almost unpassable by digging up and breaking all the Calce-ways thereabouts By this time his Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel having setled all things in very good Order in Dublin on the 12th of September came to the King at Drogheda with all the Horse the Infantry being arrived there some days before Which when all together his Majesty reviewed and found them to consist of about Twenty Thousand Men Horse Foot and Dragoons and was abundantly satisfied with the whole but was most pleased in the good appearance of the Horse and particularly with the Regiments of Horse of the Duke of Tyrconnel and of my Lord Galmoy and with the Lord Dungan's Regiment of Dragoons But what gave the King the greatest satisfaction was that he was sure of his Army not only as to their Fidelity but also as to their Courage by the impatience they exprest in any delay to Encounter the Enemy By this time Count de Schomberg was advanced to Dundalk upon which his Majesty resolving to loose no opportunity of Fighting the Enemy and not any ways to baulk the vigorous resolutions of his Soldiers marched September the 14th directly to Atherdee with the whole Army in Order of Battel upon two Columns as he himself had directed it this place is half way betwixt Drogheda and Dundalk the be ter there to observe the Enemies Countenance where he thought fit to mark out his Camp and sent immediately Orders for the Foot to hasten their March not judging it safe to be so near the Enemy without them Upon which the whole Brigade of his Majesties Foot-Guard came up at Midnight and the rest of the Infantry joyned them the next day The Army in its two Lines with the Reserve Encamp'd in their Order of Battel upon the Hills fronting towards Dundalk having the River of Largan before them which had two Bridges opposite to each Wing of the first Line Affain-Bridge at the Right and Knockbridge at the Left which were secured by Dragoons tho' the River was passable in several places His Majesty contented himself with his Head Quarters in some very mean Cottages at the right of the first Line where his Bed-Chamber was a poor Irish Cabbin hard to creep into without either Door Window or Chimney the French Ambassador and the Duke of Tyrconnel had suitable Apartments in his Majesties Quarters and the other General Officers were Accomodated after the same fashion in their respective Posts All the Ground from the River Largan towards Dundalk is a continued Rise of Hills until you come to a Valley in which there is a Narrow Bogg which beginning from the left runs the whole length of the Town and so continues to the Sea-side His Majesties Advanced Guards on the Top of these Hills stood constantly in View of the Town and of those of the Enemy seperated only by this Bogg through which there were several narrow Passes or Defiles The King went every day on Horse-back to view and observe the Enemies Postures there did not happen many Skirmishes between both Armies but upon all occasions that any of the Kings Party had to pass the Bogg or to Charge the Enemy they had ever the better of it taking several Prisoners either Forraging or in other Circumstances And many Deserters from Schombergs Army came over to the Kings Count Schomberg had disposed his Camp upon two Lines in the plain Ground at the Foot of the Hills which were Northward of Dundalk having the River before him and the Town behind it where he had taken up his own Quarters with some Horse and Foot of his own and of the Iniskilling Rebels who had joyned his Army His Left Wing was secured by a large Arm of the Sea which came up to the Town by which his Ships brought him from the North of this Kingdom and from England all Provisions of Bisket Beer c. and Forrage for his Horses To secure his Right Wing which lay most Exposed he made some Retrenchments and put a strong Garrison into a Castle of my Lord Bellew scituated upon a Rising Ground for his greater safety he Fortified all the Avenues to Dundalk with strong Retrenchments to Defend which he there Posted a Battalion of the Prince of Orange's Guards and a Regiment of French. Four days after his Majesty had Encamped at Alers-Town he resolved to observe Count Schomberg's Countenance a little closer and endeavour to Engage him to a Battel Upon this Design the King Marched with his whole Army towards him in excellent Order His Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel Captain-General Commanded the Right Wing the Marquess de Rosen Marshal of Ireland the Left. The King himself drew up his Army in full view of the Enemy so that the Extent of the Right Wing of the first Line was within less than Cannon-Shot of them Both Lines being ranged along the Hills extending to the Left a little more remote from the Enemy whose Advanced Guards from their Posts did plainly see the Disposition and excellent Order of the Royal Army The Day was very clear so that