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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

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