us and threw Stones by all which means they killed us twenty men and wounded about twice so many This day we intercepted a Younster who was slily getting away with Letters from the Bassa to the Visier of Buda telling him That without Relief it was impossible to hold out a fortnight longer July the 17th This day we continued our Works and prepared things in order to fill up the Ditch to which end the Duke ordered the Lunenburg Forces on the left to cut a Canal to let the water out of the Ditch at T from whence it may fall into the River Newtra which is much lower This day the Duke of Lorrain received advice that the Turkish Army marched towards Gran upon which he 〈◊〉 out Colonel Heusler with about seven hundred Horse and one thousand Hussars commanded by the Count de Zabor with orders to pass the Bridge of Barkun and to march towards Vitegrad to learn in what posture the Enemy was and at the same time he sent the Count de Stirum with a Body of five hundred Dragoons to pass one of the Bridges near Comorra and post himself near Grun In the mean time the Duke of Lorrain bestirred himself here with wonderful activity being every day himself in the Trenches and upon the Batteries to give the necessary orders and to push on the Siege with the greatest expedition imaginable mightily desiring to be Master of this place before he be forced to meet the Turkish Army We had no great mischief done us this day onely there was about ten killed and wounded of those that were working about the Canal July the 18th we battered the place with eighteen Pieces of Cannon from two Batteries at V by which we dismounted many of their Cannon besides fourteen more of which eight beat against the Gate and six against the Bastion E and a Mosque which is a little behind it and which was formerly a Church We plyed them so close this day with our Bombs and Carcasses that we set their new Pallisadoes on fire and ruined the aforesaid Mosque and put that part of the Town on such a flame that it continued on fire for Sixteen hours together they within having little water to quench it and the water out of the Ditch began to vanish apace July the 19th proved a very fatal day to us by the death of the Prince de Wirtemberg who died of the Wounds he had received on the 10th to the lamentation of the whole Army being a man of such Courage Prudence and Generosity that perhaps he has left few of his Equals behind him We lost also this day the Sieur Mengers one of our principal Engineers who raising his arm in managing a Mortarpiece was surprized by a Cannon-bullet which took off his arm and likewise dash'd out his brains This day we had a very brisk and handsome Encounter about one hundred and fifty Turks issuing out of the Town at the East side at X thinking to surprize us on that side lying pretty quiet but de Craus a Captain in the Regiment of Steinau being at a Post thereabouts mounted about as many of our Party who met the Turks with a great deal of Courage charging one another thorough and thorough the Engagement lasting almost two hours till a greater Party of the same Regiment making towards them the Turks were obliged to retire We had in this Encounter betwixt thirty and forty killed and wounded and the Turks came scarce off so well We could now advance our Trenches no farther till we had either filled the Ditch or let the water out which we were employed about onely we made our Trenches deeper and by that means so well secured our selves that the besieged could do us but little injury We were well provided with Faggots which were now brought in from Newtra with other necessaries for filling up of the Ditch July the 20th we played so warmly upon them from all parts that not a man durst shew himself upon the Walls we quite battered down the right side of the Bastion at E and the Curtain on the right side between that and the Bridge and made large Fractions in the Bastion at Z as also in the Curtain between it and the Bastion at E so that that part of the Town lay open to us and we wanted nothing but the filling of the Ditch for a general Assault This night the besieged as well as they could repaired the breaches made in the day remounted several Cannon upon new Batteries from whence they played so effectually upon us at the Redoubt 1 that John Ludovic Braun a Captain of the Regiment of Gondola who commanded there had much to do to maintain that Post the Earth being beaten in upon them and lying open to the Enemies Fire July the 21st we made a Retalliation for the foresaid mischiefs with our Carcasses and Bombs together with a Battery of six Pieces of Cannon from 2 with which we again dismounted some of their Cannon set fire to their Pallisadoes and the Town after such a manner that it appeared almost all in a flame This night we began to lodge our selves in the Ditch which the Enemy perceiving fired upon us continually Nevertheless we proceeded in it on the right and the left and notwithstanding it was so dangerous a Work yet we lost onely a Captain of the Regiment of Metternich and Velus Henry another Captain of the Troops of Brunswick with about ten Souldiers wounded The same night we finished the Lines of Communication along the Ditch from one Battery to the other July the 22th The Dragoons of Bavaria and Brunswick together with the Imperial Dragoons making in all about five thousand men were sent under the command of the Count de Lodron towards Comorra to cover the Bridges which the Duke of Lorrain had caused to be laid there over the Danube This day the Duke of Lorrain wrote a Letter to the Bassa of Newheusel telling him That in what manner soever he Treated the Christian Slaves now in his hands he and his Garrison must expect to be Treated if the place be taken but when the Messenger went to deliver it he refused to admit him bidding his men fire upon him This night we raised two new Batteries of eight Pieces of Cannon each very near the Ditch at 3 and a thousand men were commanded to pursue the Work very close towards the Bastion 4 to let the water out of the Ditch into the River Newtra which they did to such effect that they let out five foot of the water but not without loss for we had five men killed and near twenty wounded However it had so dried the Ditch on the side where our chief Attack was that there was not above four foot of water left July the 23th we saw a great number of Christian Slaves upon the Ramparts and heard the noise of their Chains they were employed to repair the Works ruined by our Cannon and we supposed the Turks
the Posts they had quitted and left them not till the fire was put out though in the mean time he was continually exposed to the Enemies fire and many persons were killed about him Also about mid-day the besieged made another Sally on the other side of the Town and notwithstanding what opposition our Forces there could make they quite filled up the Canal which let the water out of the Ditch July the 31th we began to dig a new the Canal that the Enemy had filled up we had also quite repaired our Galleries and advanced them to the Walls We also finished the Lines of Circumvallation from one Gallery to another notwithstanding the opposition of the Enemy which was very great and with our Cannon we so ruined the attackt Bastions that we quite disabled them for making any farther use of their Cannon This night the Turks came out in great numbers on the West side and killed Captain John Dupigne and two Lieutenants and near a hundred Souldiers that had the Guard and Sibert Kucklander a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Gallenfels was dangerously wounded The Turks endeavoured to have proceeded farther but were repulsed by the Regiment of Picolomini most part of which were at the next Post We perceived this day new Retrenchments raised within the attackt Bastions by the besiegers where they had remounted their Cannon and play'd upon one of our Batteries so fierce that they set fire to it which put those about it into a great consternation so that no one offered to put out the fire till the Duke of Lorrain came and began himself to shovel upon it August the first August the Duke of Lorrain received advice from Gran that the five hundred men that he had sent there under the command of Major Rounkel had got into the Town on the 30th of July and that the same day the Serasquier Bassa with between fifty and threescore thousand men began to besiege the place immediately falling upon Intrenchments which the next day they opened and began to batter upon the place with seven Pieces of Cannon and four Mortars from the Hills of St. Thomas and St. George Upon this the Duke of Lorrain immediately called a great Council of War to advise upon Affairs where many moved that the Governour of Gran being so well provided that he could easily secure the Town for two months therefore it was the best way vigorously to pursue the Siege of Newheusel and not meddle with the Turkish Army till they had something weakened themselves before Gran. But the majority concluded to march with the greatest part of the Army to meet the Turks upon which the Count de Lamberg was sent to Vienna to acquaint the Emperour herewith In the mean time the Siege was pursued with all possible vigour having made several Galleries and fixed the Miners in many places the Ditch on this side being half filled up and but little water left in it This day the besieged made a Sally with four hundred men but lighting upon a Post where General Souches kept the Guard they prevailed but little being driven back into the Town though with the loss of fifty men on our side and the General himself received a wound by an Arrow August the second the Duke of Lorrain in order to secure the Camp before Newheusel when he was gone with the greatest part of the Army to fight the Ottomans fearing they should be surprized by a Body of the Turks who lay near Novigrad with designe to attack us in the Duke of Lorrain's absence began to make several Retrenchments about the Camp resolving not to leave us till we were secure from such an Attempt In the mean time our Attacks being carried on with all imaginable Vigour we so disinayed the besieged that they desired a Parlee wherein the Bassa offered to surrender it upon Condition he might march out of the Garrison with their Arms all sorts of Ammunition and Cannon and take with him all the Christian Slaves with Drums beating Colours flying c. But to these Conditions the Duke of Lorrain would by no means yield This night the Enemy came into the Ditch in small Boats on the Eastern side but finding all Posts so well guarded and the Redoubts so well mann'd they durst not enterprize any thing of moment and were therefore forced to retire August the third we sounded the Ditch and found on the East side four foot of water yet left This day the Count de Lamberg arrived in the Camp again from Vienna with an account from the Emperour to the Duke of Lorrain That he approved of the Resolution he had taken and ordered him to pursue the same with all expedition upon which all things were disposed for a March as soon as possible This night we raised on the edge of the Ditch at 11 a now Battery of eighteen Pieces of Cannon which much disturbed the Town on that side But Colonel Burgsdorff Governour of Dusseldorf who was but just arrived in the Camp had the misfortune to be killed by a Musket-bullet we had besides this day about fifty killed and wounded August the 4th we betimes received advice from Gran that on the first instant the besiegers wonderfully advanced their Trenches but the besieged had so good luck as from the Castle to dismount several of their Cannon On the second the besieged made a Sally which had so good effect as to kill above two hundred of the Turks with the loss of very few on our side The same day the Turks attackt the Lower Town but with little advantage for after they had lost about three hundred men they were obliged at that time to desist This day we began to undermine on the side attackt by the Troops of Brunswick but the Work proceeded but slowly we were so molested by the small Shot of the besieged which was poured upon us continually and killed many of our men However the Work was carried on to the Line of Communication in the new Works and we raised a new Battery of four Mortars in the turn of one that was newly beat down August the 5th we had proceeded so far in our Retrenchments that they were now almost finished and the Duke of Lorrain resolved upon his March next day The whole Army being thus composed the Imperial Army in all was about twelve thousand Horse and ten thousand Foot the Lunenburgers were eight thousand Foot and four thousand Horse the Bavarians six thousand Foot and three thousand Horse the Elector of Cologne's Forces three thousand five hundred Foot and two thousand Horse the Franconians about two thousand Foot and fifteen hundred Horse These in all made an Army of about two and fifty thousand men whereof eleven thousand Foot and five thousand Horse being of the Imperial and Lunenburg Troops were left with fifty eight Pieces of Cannon and eighteen Mortars to continue the Siege of Newhousel under the command of the Count de Caprara Mareschal de Camp
General and the Duke de Croy General of the Artillery This day the besieged fired so warmly from a new Battery they had raised within that they much disordered our Workmen and ruined part of the last-mentioned Gallery they killed and wounded near a hundred of our men so that we were obliged to discontinue the Work till night at which time we repaired the foresaid Breaches and got good covert for our Workmen August the 6th the Duke of Lorrain with the Elector of Bavaria and Prince Waldeck began to march from the Camp towards Comorra designing there to pass the Danube and go fight the Enemy with their Army which consisted of about six and thirty thousand men besides many Illustrious Volunteers The besieged observing our Camp to move in so vast a Body presently concluded that we were all running away However they durst not venture a Sally but confined themselves within at present being all Rapture upon so unexpected a happiness which they expressed by loud Shouts and Acclamations after their wonted way which we permitted for some hours having by that means a more safe opportunity of carrying on our Galleries and other Works But at last we diverted this Cry by our more than usual Vollies of small Shot and a continued fire from our Batteries August the 7th we had an account by a Messenger who got thorough the Turkish Camp before Gran That the Turkish Army there was not above forty thousand strong and that they were most of them new-raised Forces and that they had been repulsed in several Attacks they had made upon that place and that though their chief Attack was upon the Lower Town yet they had prevailed but little there This day we had carried our Galleries so near the place that the Miners began to work safely the Flanks of the two attackt Bastions were so beaten down by our firing which had now continued almost two days without intermission that they almost filled the Ditch in those places and we made use of the Stone which did us a great kindness about the Galleries We had also now so battered the Walls of the Town in all parts that there was not a place strong enough to support a Cannon left but the besieged continually laboured about Retrenchments within the Bastions from whence they played with their Cannon August the 8th about seven a Clock the besieged I suppose thinking us now a little more remiss in our business than usual which opinion might be also confirmed by the peaceableness of our Cannon made an issue on the East side with a strong Body of men but the Duke de Croy who took it upon him to manage Affairs at this time on that side the Town had so well provided for reception that after a short Skirmish they were forced to retire having killed about thirty of our men and wounded twice the number with the loss of about as many on their Party This night a Gallery near the Bridge on the West side the Town being almost finished so much distasted the besieged that they not onely issued out upon it but also threw Hand-Granadoes and other artificial Fire upon it till they had put it on fire which so frighted our men there that had not Ernest Pentz a Noble and Resolute Captain quickly come it had been burnt to Ashes August the 9th we repaired the foresaid Gallery and fixed our Miners under the Curtain near F where we designed to spring a Mine as soon as it could be got ready We were endeavouring the same by several Galleries about the attackt Bastions on the North side the Town and had now let as much water out of the Ditch as the height of it above the River Newtra would permit notwithstanding there was yet on some parts between three and sour foot water left August the 10th arrived here a Gentleman with a private Message from the Duke of Lorrain to General Caprara he told us that the ninety three Squadrons and forty Batalions that went from hence on the 6th had on the 8th been joyned with four thousand five hundred Hungarians under the command of the Count de Esterhasi and that on the same day they had passed the Bridges near Comorra which the Duke of Lorrain had before caused to be laid there That on the 9th they marched to Dotis and that the Count de Rabata who took care for Provisions had sent a vast number of Boats down the Danube laden with all Necessaries for the Army which were to go forward as the Army advanced This day there happened with us nothing worthy of remark being employed about mining altogether and we had so well ordered our affairs that they within could not at all injure us August the 11th the Count de Caprara being of opinion that we might easily break down the West Bridge and the Gate and entrench our selves so that the besieged could neither sally out there nor do us any injury from thence we accordingly set about it but in the end found it to be very hot service for the Enemy had so advantageously placed their Cannon about the Gate both within and without that there was no coming near them Colonel Heister and Captain Som who were the foremost in this Attempt were killed and a hundred common Souldiers either killed or wounded However we prevailed so far that the little Fortification before the Bridge was ruined to all intents and purposes and we raised a new Battery of Cannons and Mortars at 12 which beat full upon the Gate This night Colonel Brecy being upon the Guard took a Turk who in a Christian habit was endeavouring to escape he in hopes of pardon told us the condition the Town was in that their Wall had not been useful as to supporting of their Cannon for many days and that their chief defence was from new-raised Batteries That as to the number of their men they yet consisted of eighteen hundred Souldiers but that at least five hundred were sick and wounded and of no use That the Garrison was quite out of heart but that the Bassa endeavoured to animate them with hopes of Relief every moment and 't was onely upon this hopes that they now relyed and therefore made so vigorous a defence August the 12th we began to fill up the Ditch on the other side the Town having already pretty well levelled the Walls we hoped also to level the Ditch in a short time and then designed a General Assault Some small Scouts we had abroad came in this day they had by chance in their progress met with about twenty of the Enemy and killed and taken them all One of the Prisoners told us that the Visier of Buda and three other Bassa's were encamped with a Body of men with a designe to relieve Newheusel but hearing what a strong Guard was left about the place they durst not attempt it till they were re-enforced by the Serasquier for that purpose which they expected every day August the 13th at
made them appear there to excite our compassion and make us forbear firing This day the Prince of Conty coming out of the Trenches was lightly wounded in the head This night we attempted to fix our Miners and to that end made a Trench to the Ditch for two covered Boats to enter into it in which some persons were to pass with Planks and Rafters to the foot of the Bastion to make a Lodgment there for the Miners but one of these Boats sunk presently and the other had little better success the Lieutenant of the Miners being wounded we were fain to desist from that designe This night our Bombs and Carcasses had such success that the whole Town appeared for twenty four hours in a flame July the 24th the besieged made a Sally with five hundred men at the Eastern Gate and surprized a Redoubt at 6 where the Sieur Peickhard Lieutenant-Colonel was chief Commander of about three hundred Suabian Troops who were all cut to pieces with the Colonel and Daniel Rumlingen and Cornelius Fockius Captains We now finding the forementioned way of passing the Ditch by Boats to fix our Miners to be useless and of no effect began to think of Galleries the first of which we began at 7 they were contrived with some covering of boards for a defence against the Enemies small Shot but these proved to be very desperate and dangerous Attempts and the besieged were so fierce upon us that by this means we lost a great many men July the 25th we finished two new Batteries on the edge of the Ditch and with these dismounted all the Cannon on this side the Town that was before left We also now began to fill the Ditch with Faggots and Sacks of Wool but not without loss for the Sieur Rose a Colonel in the Bavarian Troops was killed and above a hundred more killed and wounded This day also a barrel of Powder took fire near 8 by which there was thirty men killed and wounded This day Colonel Heusler and Colonel Zabor who were sent out to observe the Enemy came back they had met with a sinall Party of Turks near Gran and had killed about thirty and taken several Prisoners They gave the Duke of Lorrain an account that the Ottoman Army commanded by the Serasquier Bassa was marching towards Gran that his Army consisted of about fifty or sixty thousand men that his resolution was if possible to relieve Newheusel and that some Prisoners they had taken informed them also that there were twelve thousand Tartars at Novigrad ready to joyn the Turks July the 26th Prince Waldeck arrived in the Camp and this day and night he and the Duke of Lorrain were almost perpetually in the Trenches giving necessary Orders and encouraging their men who were now a little dejected and proceeded with a great deal of caution having so many lately killed The chief Work was making the Gallery and filling the Ditch in which work we had this day the Count de Buckheim Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment of Souches killed with about fifty more and near a hundred wounded July the 27th the besieged made a Sally with about three hundred men these rushing suddenly on our Workmen at 9 forced them from the Works and then had an opportunity of doing us great mischief by ruining our Works that let the water out of the Ditch but Colonel Schenick being at the next Redoubt made towards them with about six hundred upon which they soon retired into the Town though they had before killed and wounded near a hundred of our men the Works they had ruined were repaired in some few hours And they then set upon making a new Redoubt for security from any more such Sallies We fired our Cannon and cast Carcasses and Bombs all this day without intermission hoping by this means to keep the besieged from obstructing our Workmen about the Galleries these had no greater effect than that we could perpetually observe the Town on fire in one place or other but the besieged from under the Walls so pelted us with Stones and Hand-Granado's that they killed a hundred of our men and wounded many more July the 28th the besieged made another Sally and with great vigour made up to our Gallery so that they beat most of our men from it killed two Captains and sixty common Souldiers and set the Gallery on fire besides wounded near a hundred more besides this was not all the injury they did us for they fought with such desperation and courage towards what they had done before that we were perswaded they questioned not having relief very shortly and all their aim was onely to keep us out of the Town till then and for this reason whilst we battered them remotely they valued us not and so made little defence but perceiving us come so near them it was time to look to themselves they got to two of our Batteries beat our men away and disinounted several of the Cannon till the Duke of Lorrain and Prince Waldeck came up with a strong Body and forced them to retire This day the Duke of Lorrain receiving advice that the Serasquier Bassa made immediately towards Gran sent five hundred Foot under the command of Major Rummel to re-enforce that Garrison July the 29th we repaired the Batteries and the Galleries which the besieged had fired the day before and worked so briskly with our Cannon that we almost ruined the Flanks of the attackt Bastions We made a pretty good Lodgment in the Ditch and were ready to fix our Miners but the besieged with their small Shot Hand-Granado's and other artificial Fire killed and wounded vast numbers of our men This day the Elector of Bavaria arrived in the Camp and was received with the discharge of all the Cannon and Mortars against the place The Duke of Lorrain sent an Express to the Auxiliary Troops of Cologne and Franconia with Orders to hasten their March to Comorra and halt there staying for the Imperial Army which should pass the Danube there in case they went to fight the Ottoman Army This night the besieged made a Sally by a covered way which had a Communication into the Ditch near 9 and filled up part of the Canal that let the water out of the Ditch They likewise filled up some other of our Works and burnt some Galleries that we had begun to make that way at 10 being the Attack of the Troops of Brunswick and assaulted our men that defended the Work with such courage that they almost got to our Powder and Ammunition they killed us above a hundred men and wounded near two hundred July the 30th the besieged made another Sally and set fire to the Gallery which had almost quite ruined it the fire ran so swift that it got to one of our Batteries whereupon those about it retired in some disorder till the Duke of Lorrain coming there with his Sword killed one or two that were running away and set the Officers back to