Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	lord_n	marquis_n	2,519	5	10.8284	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57999	The history of the Turks Beginning with the year 1679. Being a full relation of the last troubles in Hungary, with the sieges of Vienna, and Buda, and all the several battles both by sea and land, between the Christians, and the Turks, until the end of the year 1698, and 1699. In which the peace between the Turks, and the confederate Christian princes and states, was happily concluded at Carlowitz in Hungary, by the mediation of His Majesty of Great Britain, and the States General of the United Provinces. With the effigies of the emperors and others of note, engraven at large upon copper, which completes the sixth and last edition of the Turks. In two vol. in folio. By Sir Paul Rycaut, kt. eighteen years consul at Smyrna, now his Majesty's resident at Hamburg, and fellow of the Royal Society.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1700 (1700)	Wing R2408; ESTC R216646	1,015,219	685

matters sofast that due care was not taken to hinder a Reverse but on the contrary The Turks Fire a Mine to their hurt the Turks giving Fire to their Mine it recoyled back on themselves and buried many of their Men and so shook the Walls and Fortifications of the Tower that by the help of a Battery of eight Pieces of Cannon which were levelled and plaid upon it the Breach was made considerably wide and so enlarged that at a Council of War held on the 13th of this Month it was resolved not longer to defer the Assault on the Bavarian side July The Orders for which were no sooner Issued and the Signal given than all the Voluntiers and brave Adventurers in the Army Transported with Ambition An Assault made on the Town and Desire of Glory pressed to be the first that should mount the Breach In this Action Count Guy of Staremberg Count Herberstein and Count Aversberg were Commanded each with Two hundred and twenty Men to make the Assault in three several places the first of which was to enter in the middle of the Curtain the second on the right Hand and the third on the left amongst which some Granadiers were mixed and Pioniers to prepare and level the Ground to make an Allodgment and a Reserve of Two thousand Men was appointed to sustain and second the Assailants The Ascent unto the Breach was very difficult and the Turks had repaired it in many places with Palisodoes howsoever to brave Minds spirited with a desire of Glory such as were the Voluntiers who were Gentlemen of principal Quality from divers Parts and Nations of Europe nothing seemed so difficult and hazardous but what they were able and daring to surmount The Onset was made about seven a Clock in the Evening and the first thing attempted was to force up the Palisadoes which being done they found the Besieged posted behind in their Trenches with good Order the Christians Attacked them with great Vigour and the Turks made an equal Defence pouring whole Vollies of shot with great numbers of Granadoes and discharging a prodigious quantity of Stones from their Mortar-pieces upon them on each side likewise was a round Tower filled with Musquetiers and Granadiers who bestowed their Shot liberally upon them so that the Assailants being between Firings on each side as also on the Front were killed and wounded in great numbers An Assault given with loss to the Christians howsoever they made themselves Masters of the Breach which they maintained and defended above the space of an hour but at length the heat of the Fight was so great as had put things into much Disorder and caused the Pioneers and Labourers to disperse and a Provision of Faggots and Sacks of Earth not being at Hand sufficient to cover the Assailants they lay naked and exposed to the Shot of the Enemy and at the same time a Mine being prepared and fired under the Breach it did great execution so that many Persons of great Quality and Valour were killed and wounded in this Action and the Turks making a Sally in another place at the same time the General caused a Signal to be given for the Troops to Retreat which was done in very good Order The Regiments of Souches Mansfelt and Staremberg were those which suffer'd most in this Action The Persons Wounded were The Prince of Commarcy The Duke of Bejar a Grandee of Spain Marquis Blancfort Son of Mareschal Crequi Count Staremberg Count Dona. The Duke of Escalona a Grandee of Spain Two Captains of Souches's Regiment The Baron Chifler the Natural Son of Prince Rupert My Lord George Savil Second Son of the Lord Marquis of Halifax Count Maldeghen Mr. Fitz James Natural Son of King James the II. of England Count Urse three Spanish Gentlemen Monsieur Sulpice a Gentleman belonging to the Prince of Commarcy Persons Killed were Prince Palatine of Veldens Prince Piccolomini Count Hortemback Page to the Duke of Loraine The Cavalier of Courmaillon Count Ermestein Major of Schezfemberg's Regiment Six English Noblemen amongst which was that Worthy Gentleman Colonel Robert Forbus Second Son to the Earl of Granard Three Spanish Gentlemen belonging to the Duke of Bejar The Turks had about Two hundred Men killed and One hundred wounded The Besieged thinking hereby to have gained a great advantage over the Christians and thereby to have put them into some Confusion and Disorder made a Sally that Night on the Brandenburgher's Quarters but were vigorously repulsed back again into the Town with the loss of many Heads which the Brandenburghers carried into the Camp to receive the usual Rewards promised thereupon For several Days there hapned nothing but Batteries and Firing Mines on one side and the other but the Mines on the Christian side did not so much execution as did those of the Turks Howsoever the Bombs were much available and did great damage within the Town Terrible effects of Bombs to the Turks especially those of a new Invention made by an Ingenier called Gonzales which not only killed but set all on Fire wheresoever it fell One of this sort of Bombs hapning within the Walls of a great Edifice for as we said before all the Roofs and Coverings were taken off produced most terrible and direful effects not only beating down the Walls but Killed above One hundred Men Women and Children The Turks to Revenge themselves for all these Slaughters were very diligent and active in Springing their Mines Of Mines to the Chrians which they had prepared with great Art by which many Soldiers and Officers of note were destroyed to the great diminution in number of the Besiegers In the mean time the Christians plied their great Guns and Sprang the Mines to widen the Breaches in order to make a General Assault for which Preparations were daily made and Ladders brought and all Instruments provided in order thereunto On the 20th Day of July July about seven a Clock in the Morning a strange hollow Noise was heard under Ground The great Magazine of the Turks Blown up and the Earth trembled both in the Town and under the Feet of the Soldiers in the Camp and a dark Cloud of Smoak and Ashes cover'd the City so thick and black that for the space of an hour scarce any thing of the Walls themselves could be seen which caused a Terrour in the Minds of the Besiegers notwithstanding their Resolution and Bravery for whole showers of Stones were cast up and thrown into the Bavarian Trenches whereby many Soldiers and Officers of Quality were Wounded And whilst the Elector of Bavaria and the Prince of Baden were busily employ'd in Riding about to confirm their Soldiery a Stone of considerable weight and bigness fell between them All which Convulsion hapned by blowing up of the chief Magazine of the City whether by Bomb from the Camp or any other Accident is uncertain But such were the dreadful effects thereof That it shook down one Wing