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A37146 The history of the campagne in Flanders, for the year 1697 together with a journal of the siege of Ath, and a summary account of the negotiations of the general peace at Ryswick / by Edward D'Auvergne ... D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737. 1698 (1698) Wing D297; ESTC R15640 139,524 172

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wounded not exceeding 400 Men The same Evening my Lord Portland being recover'd of his late Indisposition that had made him go for Brussels came back to the Camp in good Health and His Majesty was pleas'd to declare him General of Horse in his Armies The Fifth Colonels Cholmley Langston and Windham were declar'd Brigadiers of Horse at the Orders the first being made Brigadier of the Brigade of Life-Guards Colonel Coy dispos'd afterwards of his Regiment to my Lord of Arran Brother to His Grace the Duke of Ormond and Colonel Harvey Lieutenant of one of the Troops of Life-Guards got the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Horse in England This day five Battallions landed at Willemstadt from England being the second Battallion of Scots Guards Colonel Columbine's Sir Bevil Granville's Colonel Murray's and the Marquis of Puizars where they met with a Route to march forthwith to Brussels by Liere and Malines The Sixth The Troops of Brunswick and Lunenbourg under the Command of Lieutenant General Ohr consisting of eight Battallions and twelve Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons pass'd the Meuse coming from the Rhine the Foot at Maestricht and the Horse and Dragoons at Maseick and incamp'd this day near Tongres and came the Eighth to Tirlemont where they had Orders to halt the French having made yet no manner of Motion since the taking of At h and therefore 't was not yet resolv'd where to dispose of this Reinforcement as for the Hesse and Munster Troops they follow'd but did not come up till the French had brought us under the Walls of Brussels for the Safety of that place as I am now going to give an account of it only I must see first what was transacting in the Elector of Bavaria's Camp in Flanders after the loss of Ath. The greatest Advantage the French had by the taking of this place was that now they could march with their Armies in the Pays d'Alost and Forrage all the Country to the very Walls of Dendermond and the Banks of the Scheld the Rupelle and the Canal of Brussels and that in having their Armies here they made the Communication between Brabant and Flanders very difficult for the Allies who in such a case could not march any Troops from the one to the other but by the Canal of Brussels Rupelmonde and so by the Pays-de Waes behind the Scheld and if the War had lasted another Campagne we should have felt the Inconveniency of a French Army in the Pays-d'Alost yet more than we did this unless we had been much stronger in the Field than we were this Year to secure this Camp before them This Consideration that the French were now Masters of the Country to incamp where they pleas'd about Alost oblig'd the Elector to provide betimes for the Safety of Dendermond and Pays-de-Waes thereupon after the News of the Surrender of At h he commanded the Regiment of Horse of Bunau and the Liege Dragoons of Rost and Jamar with the two Battallions of the Electoral Prince of Bavaria to march towards that place for its defence and to hinder the French Parties from passing the Scheld to raise Contributions in that Countrey but the Allies having a design to make up a third Army about Brussels at this time if it could be brought together time enough to prevent the French on this side and besides Brussels being expos'd without any considerable Troops about it since the loss of At h Prince Cerclas of Tilly was order'd away for Brussels from the Elector's Army that same night being the 29th of May with the Liege Cavalry and Dragoons and took the two Regiments of Dragoons of Jamar and Rost sent to Dendermond in his way and so the Regiment of Horse of Bunau and the two Battallions of the Electoral Prince remain'd about Dendermond but Prince Cerclas of Tilly came to Brussels the beginning of June where he incamp'd before the Fort of Montery as we have said it above The Elector's Army had been in this Camp ever since our early taking of the Field except the little time it was with the King's Army at Ternath and Iseringhen which made Forrage very scarce about his Army several great Detachments were therefore made to look for Forrage between the Lys and the Scheld some towards Warreghem and Vive St. Eloy up along the Lys and others towards Nassaret and Gavre upon the Scheld one of which Detachments beat a Party of the Enemies at Cruyshoutem The third of June it was propos'd to have march'd with the Army between the Lys and the Scheld and a Camp was mark'd at Nassaret but Forrage was very scarce and the Army could subsist but very few days in this place and therefore 't was thought necessary to oblige the Country of Flanders behind the Canals to have dry Forrage ready at this time for the Subsistence of the Army The Seventh the Elector's Army made one general Forrage more about Wacken on both sides of the River Mandel which falls into the Scheld at this place the Marquis de Montrevel being incamp'd with the Body under his command within the Lines near Courtray having intelligence of it march'd with a Body of Horse from this place to interrupt our Forrage between the Lys and the Mandel We had on our side three Field-pieces at the Mills of Wacken upon the River and Detachments all along as far as the Bridge of Colberg and from thence between the Mandel and the Lys all along the way to Bassevive upon this last River Montrevel had about 3 or 400 Horse and having advanc'd pretty far between these two Rivers he met with an Out-guard of ours of 30 Horse commanded by a Spanish Lieutenant which were soon oblig'd to fly for their main Body being under the Command of a Colonel these were likewise driven from their Post and forc'd to retire being pursued by the French as far as an Inn call'd the Hive where Major General Salisch who commanded the Forrage this day was posted with about 1300 Men The French did not think it safe to venture any farther but went back to Courtray having about 40 Prisoners and 30 of our Horses along with them The Tenth the Country of Flanders began to furnish the Army with dry Forrage according to the Elector's orders which could not subsist any longer at Nevel without it And the Marechal of Catinat having level'd the Lines and repair'd the Breaches of At h and being now upon his March towards the Scheld and it being uncertain as yet which way the Marechal of Villeroy would turn whither towards Brabant or Flanders a Council of War was call'd the 12th at the Elector's Camp to concert what was to be done if both the Marechals of Villeroy and Catinat should bring their Armies into Flanders either at Thilt or Rousselar it was propos'd in that case to bring the Elector's Army behind the Canal of Bruges to march in order to that upon the Right and pass the Canal at Ansbeck and observe the same Method that was
along the Demer about Hasselt had Orders to come to Louvain the 26th and incamp between this place and Corbeck upon the Dyle and being joyn'd the 27th by the Regiments of Horse of Tilly Erbach Prince Philip Nassau-Friezland Flodorf Huybert Saxen-Heylbourg Saxon-Gotha and Arco from the neighbouring Quarters they came to Tombeck and Rassiere the Brook of Lahn before them being all under the Command of Count Tilly The Dutch Infantry cantoon'd hereabouts incamp'd at Eygenhoven and the Brandenbourg Troops Quarter'd about Diest and Arfcht and Villages along the Rupelle came to incamp the 27th between Terhulpen and Gerival near the Bois de Sogne towards Wavre commanded by General Heyden consisting then of 18 Battallions of Foot and 17 Squadrons of Horse where they were joyn'd by the Garrison of Louvain commanded by Major General Churchill and the Dutch Foot incamp'd at Eygenhoven The Dutch Guards from Liere and the Garrison of Malines commanded by Brigadier Tiffin came the same day to the Camp at Ixelles and at the Orders the Quarter-Masters were commanded to be this Evening at the Retrenchment of Waterlo The Dutch Cavalry in Quarters at Brussels march'd the 28th by two in the Morning by the Grande Chaussee through the Bois de Sogne towards Braine la Leu the Infantry incamp'd near the Fauxbourg of Ivelles follow'd and then our Artillery which had been brought from Ghendt to Brussels by Water for this purpose as that of Holland had been sent from Malines to Ghendt and all was clos'd up by the Dutch Horse Canton'd about Brussels and Malines but the heavy Baggage was to be left behind till the next day The Vanguard of Horse as soon as it came into the Plain beyond the Bois de Sogne sent detachments to Genap Wavre and Nivelle to cover the March of the Army at the same time Count de Noyelles sent detachments of Foot from Waterlo to the Church of Ophain the Abbey of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac and the Village of Bas Istre towards Braine le Chasteau to cover the March for this Camp on all sides If Bouflers had been pass'd the Sambre instead of these detachments a great Body of Horse was to have been order'd towards Genap and Nivelle commanded by a General Officer but Bouflers was still on the other side and sav'd us this Care At the same time that the Prince's Troops incamp'd at Ixelles were marching through the Bois de Sogne for Braine le Leu the Troops incamp'd at Terhulpen and Gerival under General Heyden and the Dutch Horse under Count Tilly from Tombeeck march'd about between the Dyle and the Wood to this Camp and thus joyn'd altogether the 28th being incamp'd with an Elbow upon the right between the Abbey of Bois Seigneur-Isaac and the Village of Bas Istre towards Brain le Chasteau this was the Poste of the right Wing of Horse and Right of the Body of Foot the rest of the Camp went in a strait Line from the Abbey of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac upon the Right as far as the Brook of Leu upon the Left towards the Wood of Sogne and Waterlo having the Village or rather small Town of Braine la Leu before it as the Village of Ophain was before the Center and the foremention'd Abbey upon the Right all three in a Line The Abbey of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac was mark'd for the King's Quarter which consequently gave the Name to the Camp and the Prince and most of the Generals Quarter'd at Brain la Leu the Prince in his own Castle which he has here and where he was born of the Princess of Cantecroix Count de Noyelles continued in the Retrenchments of Waterlo till the 29th to see all the Baggage come up safe through the Wood which was order'd to follow the Army and then march'd from thence with the Body under his Command and took his Post in the Line as it had been assign'd to the several Regiments where all the Battallions incamp'd double as the Elector's Army did at Deinse because the distance was too great for the Foot to fill if the Company 's had incamp'd in their full depth and therefore 't was thought convenient to incamp so as that every Battallion might be divided into two and take up the ground between the Right and Left This Army at the first joyning consisted of 75 Squadrons of Horse 26 of Dragoons and 64 Battallions making in all 46490 Men. A detachment of 400 Men was sent to Nivelle under the Command of a Field Officer to keep Garrison there and secure a Post that was very necessary for the cover of our Army or from whence the Enemies could very much annoy us if they got once to be Masters of it and therefore this could not be construed an infraction of the agreement made on both sides with the Lady Abbess of Nivelle because 't was onely for the present security of the Army which would have been done by the French themselves upon such an occasion or if they gain'd an opportunity by it of attaquing our Army with more advantage As for the English Horse and Dragoons which had march'd out of Ghendt towards Alost under the command of General Auerquerque in order to come to this Camp they were order'd to march back again for their quarters to be at hand near the Electors Army whilst he had two of the Armies of France which were now about Tournay and Courtray for dangerous Neighbours for all the Brandenbourg Cavalry design'd to serve in Flanders was not yet come to Brabant But the Dutch Horse upon English pay Lloyds Dragoons and the Dutch Regiments of Montigny Turck Zuylen now Schulembourg and Noyelles march'd on towards the General Rendezvous at Bois-Seigneur-Isaac to make room for the same number being 18 Squadrons of Dutch Horse and four of Dragoons design'd to serve in Flanders under Lieutenant General Opdam which being now come into this Countrey cantoon'd on both sides of the Canal in the Quarters left by chose that had march'd into Brabant The Spanish and Bavarian Horse came up about the same time and quarter'd along the Scheld between Ghendt and Dendermond so that the Elector had all the Horse of his Army now ready to joyn him As for the Horse belonging to the Princes Army at Bois-Seigneur-Isaac it was actually incamp'd in the Line and the Magazines of Hay and Oats that were at Brussels were transported in Waggons to Waterlo where we had them at hand to subsist the Army with dry Forrage Whilst our Forces in Brabant were marching up to joyn together at this Camp His Majesty who could not let his Armies be in the Field without him arriv'd at Oranje-Polder in the Maes from England the 27th and came the same Evening to the Hague where he was Complimented by the Deputies of the States and Forreign Ministers My Lord of Pembrook His Majesty's first Ambassadour Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of Peace came over at the same time but an indisposition hinder'd Sir Joseph Williamson from coming to Holland till the next