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A37139 The history of the campagne in Flanders, for the year, 1695 with an account of the seige of Namur / by Edward D'auvergne ... D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737. 1692 (1692) Wing D296; ESTC R224871 132,710 198

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THE HISTORY OF THE CAMPAGNE IN FLANDERS For the Year 1695. WITH An ACCOUNT OF THE Siege of Namur By EDWARD D'AUVERGNE M. A. Rector of St. Brelade in the Isle of Jersey and Chaplain to His Majesty's Regiment of Scots Guards LONDON Printed for Mat. Wotton at the Three Daggers and John Newton at the Three Pigeons in Fleetstreet 1696. Where are to be sold the Histories for the Years 1692 1693 1694. Written by the same Author TO HIS GRACE The DUKE of ORMOND Lieutenant-General OF His Majesty's Armies c. MY LORD WHAT my Worthy Friend did when he publish'd one of my precedent Histories I beg leave now to do my self and to make use of the Opportunity which my Presence in England at this time affords me to present these Sheets to YOUR GRACE The End my Friend had in that Dedication was to procure me the Protection of YOUR GRACE to whom it was then my Misfortune to be unknown But now I am so sensible of YOUR GRACE's unmerited Favours that this small Offering proceeds from Gratitude tho' common Prudence were enough to have induc'd me to shelter this Work under the Patronage of a Name known and valued by all Europe a Name worthily born by YOUR GRACE the deserved Heir of a Race of Heroes That Great and Warlike Spirit which YOUR GRACE inherits from a long Descent of Renown'd Ancestors takes You from that soft Rest and Ease You might enjoy at home and carries You abroad into the Field of Fame and Glory there to hazard both Life and Fortune the one for the Safety the other for the Honour and Reputation of England And 't is That attracts the Hearts of all Nations even of our Enemies and inclines them to love admire and respect You witness what we saw in that Great Day of Landen wherein Your Heroick Courage vanquish'd our Victorious Enemies even then when you fell into their Hands dy'd in Your Noble Blood Your Valour amaz'd them but Your Civil Generous Deportment charm'd them and has made the Celebrated Name of ORMOND Reverenc'd and Esteem'd among all the High Officers of the Armies of France if I may not say Fear'd without disrespect to a Brave and Valiant Enemy They are great Judges of Martial Worth and Merit and therefore at the same time that they applaud and admire it in YOUR GRACE they cannot but be apprehen●ive of it in an Enemy especially when they consider it lodg'd in One born to Command and whom the Greatest Monarch and General now in the World has tutor'd through all the Steps and Degrees of Experience before he made him Lieutenant-General of his Armies tho' it were a Commission antecedently due to so Illustrious a Person His Majesty would have YOUR GRACE to be the chief Sharer with him in all the Toils and Dangers to which he has so undauntedly expos'd himself for the Common Good of the Cause he heads 'T was You He would have daily with him in the Trenches during the most Famous and Important Siege of Namur to give YOUR GRACE all the Advantages of the Best and the most Perfect Knowledge in the several Arts of War that He may one Day confide the Leading of his Armies to the DUKE of ORMOND But MY LORD I forget that I venture upon an Attempt in which the ablest Pens may miscarry YOUR GRACE has been so often regal'd with Epistles Dedicatory from the most Ingenious Persons who look upon You as the great Patron of Mars and of the Muses that even at the best I can but make an Eccho to their Endeavours in setting forth YOUR GRACE's due Praise This Consideration bids me be silent and only desire leave to subscribe my self May it please YOUR GRACE YOUR GRACE's Most Faithful Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant E. D'Auvergne To the Reader SOme People will wonder why this Account comes out so late I rather complain that it comes out too soon As late as 't is publish'd the Reader may easily perceive by the negligence of the Style and the many Faults of the Press that it hath been both writ and printed in hast The great variety of Action in the Last Campagne has swell'd this History to a considerable bulk which therefore has requir'd some time to compose as well as to print The Booksellers to make the more hast have put it into several Hands to have it printed which is the reason of the difference found in the spelling of several Words besides other Faults which I hope the Courteous Reader will pardon I have only corrected those Errors of the Press which alter'd the sense of the Phrase the re●t I must leave to be amended by the Judicious Reader Indeed an Account of this nature should not be publish'd without being first perus'd by some of the General Officers concern'd But such a just and necessary Circumspection would keep the Work too long from the Publick which loves to have things New therefore it must e'en be content to have it attended with several Mistakes and I may say worse Faults 'T is what obliges me to beg the Excuse of those Great and Worthy Gentlemen whose noble Feats and Actions make up the subject of this History for the several Faults and mistakes of this Book which if more exact would be more just to their deserv'd Honour and Praise In so glorious an Action as the Siege of Namur where every Regiment concern'd has perform'd Wonders it was very difficult for me to do express Justice to all and therefore I hope that when I offend in this respect their generous Nature will incline them to Pardon A dry Journal may be made in the Camp but I think that an Historical Account wherein a Man must specifie the Connexion and Coherences of the several Matters of Fact their relation to and dependance from one another requires the Calm and Leisure of a Winter-Quarter to compose it I have lately receiv'd from Maestricht the Plan of the Siege of Namur and of the Lines of Circumvallation done by an ingenious Hand with several other Particulars relating to the Siege which are come too late to be inserted in my Book but I have added at the end of it as much as I could viz the List of the Hesse and Brandenbourgh Forces and of those encamp'd in the Line of Circumvallation As for the Plan my Undertakings meet with so little Encouragement that the Booksellers could not go to the Charge of having it engrav'd and join'd to this History I have given it to Mr. Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill where the Curious may have it to explain and illustrate my Account of this Great and Famous Siege Such Discouragements may convince the World that I do not write for Profit My End and Design is to satisfie the Curiosity of English Men so much concern'd in the Interest and Charges of this War and as much as lies in my Power to give them a true Relation of Things If I had not more regard to the Satisfaction of my