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A relation of the most remarkable transaction of the last campaigne in the Confederate Army, under the command of His Majesty of Great Britain and after of the elector of Bavaria in the Spanish Netherlands, Anno Dom. 1692
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D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737.
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the loss of the day because the Ground was so streight and the Enemy had such Hedges Copses and little Woods to cover them that there was nothing to do for the Horse so that when the Van-Guard began to engage they had none but part of the Infantry interlined with the Left Wing of Horse to second them the Body of the Infantry being almost a Mile in the Rear however as soon as the Action began the King made all diligence possible to get the Infantry up ordering a Brigade to march up to the Wood and forming a Line of Battel in the Plain with that Infantry as could come up the Soldiers shew'd such eagerness to come to the Enemy that they ran to the Relief of those as were engag'd even so fast that they put themselves into some disorder which was the reason that they took more time to form their Battalions than was at that time convenient this was the case of those Battalions as were sent to the Wood to the Relief of our Van-Guard so that when they came up our Van-Guard and Infantry of the Left Wing being over-powr'd by the vast many Battalions of the Enemy as charg'd them successively one after another and lastly by the survening of Boufflers's fresh Troops they were forc'd to retreat in great disorder and to leave the Wood in which they had lodg'd themselves entirely to the Enemies possession The Baron of Pibrack's Regiment of Lunenburgers being in great disorder in the skirt of the Wood and the Baron their Colonel lying dangerously wounded upon the place which he got in rallying of his Regiment the Earl of Bath's one of the Regiments that was commanded towards the Wood the other English being Brigadier Churchil's was order'd by Prince Casimir of Nassaw to their Relief two Sergeants of this Regiment rescu'd the Colonel who lay wounded almost in the Enemies hand and brought him off in spight of their fire upon these Orders of Prince Casimir of Nassaw Sir Bevil Granville who commanded the Earl of Bath's Regiment march'd up to the Relief of this Lunenburg Regiment bearing the Enemies fire before he suffer'd any Platton of his Battalion to discharge once by which method the Regiment lodg'd itself in the Trench or deep way that lay upon the skirt of the Wood which it maintain'd till it was commanded off again by the same Prince of Nassaw The King having form'd a Line of as many Battalions as cou'd come up in this little Plain the Enemy upon their Right and our Left of the Wood as wefac'd planted a Battery of about ten Pieces of Cannon to put them in disorder by their fire we at the same time brought another against it and thus continued firing one upon another for a considerable time What mischief we did to the Enemy by our Cannon then I cannot tell but theirs kill'd several of our Soldiers some in the Regiment of Fuzileers and some in the Battalion of the Second Regiment of Guards but the most considerable loss we sustain'd by it was Col. Hodges who was shot with a Cannon-ball at the Head of his Regiment of which he soon after dy'd There was likewise a Skirmish between some of the French and some of our Battalions between the Wood and that Farm which was fir'd by the Enemy but it did not last long what Regiments they were I cannot tell but I suppose they were some of the Dutch interlin'd in the Left Wing of Horse commanded by Brigadier Fagel The Van Guard being thus disorder'd for want of a timely Relief which was occasion'd by the narrowness of the Ground and consequently beaten out of their Post in the Wood Luxemburg being likewise joyn'd by the Marquess of Boufflers's fresh Troops who came time enough to compleat the Defeat of our Van-Guard with his Dragoons and besides the Night drawing on the King order'd the Army to retreat which was done with admirable Order for tho' the French did follow us for some time yet they did not fire a shot such was the order of our Retreat that they did not dare venture upon it the English Grenadiers brought up the Rear and whenever the French mov'd towards us they fac'd to the Right about and presented themselves to the Enemy then the Enemy would halt and so our Rear-Guard then march'd on this halting and facing and then marching continu'd for some time till the Night put an end to the Enemies farther motion And thus the Army came back to Halle on Munday Morning about Three of the Clock We lost in this Action several Pieces of Cannon some taken by the Enemy and some we could not bring off the Horses being tired we likewise blew up some of our Powder-Waggons in the Retreat which we could not bring off some having their Carriages broken and others their Horses tir'd The English lost two Colours and the Dutch likewise some we had about Two thousand Men kill'd and about Three thousand wounded in which number we comprehend the Prisoners taken by the French disabled by their Wounds to come off being about 8 or 900. Of the English and Scotch twelve Battalions engag'd viz. The Second Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards the First Battalion of Sir Robert Douglass's Col. Fitz-Patricks and Col. O Farrel's in the Van-Guard Cutts Hesse Mackay Graham Angus Leven and Lauder interlin'd in the Left-Wing of Horse Of the Body of the Infantry the Earl of Bath's Of the Danes Battalion of Guards the Queen's Battalion Prince Christians and the Finland Battalion Of the Dutch Waldeck Fagel Noyelles Torsey L'Fcluse Nassaw commanded by Colonel Goz. Lunenburgers in the States Service Boisdavid and Pibrac besides Epingers and Fitzhardings Dragoons and the Horse Granadiers who charg'd on Foot Officers killed of Note were Lieutenant General Mackay Sir John Lanier Lieutenant General of Horse mortally wounded who died few days after at Brussels Sir Robert Douglas Earl of Angus Colonel Hodges my Lord Mountjoy who had been two or three years in Prison in France and came upon his Liberty to serve the King as a Voluntier he was killed with a Canon Ball at the Head of Colonel Godfrey's Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Fullerton Foxon Hawley Wacup and Hamilton Major Carre of Angus's Regiment wounded mortally and died soon after Chief Officers wounded my Lord Cutts Colonel Mackay Lieutenant Colonel Eaton Courthop Major Fox of Fitzpatrick's Prisoners of Note Colonel Lauder Lieutenant Colonel Eaton Bristol and Courthop Several Officers of the Danes killed wounded and some Prisoners whose Names I cannot Insert As likewise of the Dutch Lietenant General Tetteau wounded Colonel Goz Commandant of Prince Casimir of Nassaws Guards and Colonel Moor Commandant of Torsey's Regiment both killed This is an Impartial Account of the Business of that Day of which the French notwithstanding their Te-Deum have no great reason to brag All as Impartial Men can say of their Advantage is that we attack'd them in their own Camp and that they repuls'd us though with the greater Loss both of
A RELATION Of the Most Remarkable Transactions Of the Last CAMPAIGNE IN THE Confederate Army Under the Command of His Majesty of GREAT BRITAIN AND AFTER Of the Elector of BAVARIA IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS Anno Dom. 1692. LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's-Arms in the Poultrey 1693. To the Right Honourable John Earl of Bathe Viscount LANS DOWNE Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddiford Lord-Lieutenant of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall Governour of Their Majesties Royal Cittadel of Plimouth Colonel of one of the English Regiments of Foot in the Low-Countries and one of Their Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council c. My LORD THE desire I have to do something as may express that Respect I owe to your Lordship is the chief reason that I have undertook the Relation of the last Campaigne for since those Years which your Lordship has so signally spent in the Service of the Crown and those important Governments you have in this Kingdom at this Juncture of time do not only dispence but even oblige your Lordship not to be present with your Regiment in the Low Countries I hope this Relation may be acceptable to your Lordship in which your Regiment has not had a small share in the most remarkable Occurrences of the Campaigne There may be some Solaecisms in Soldiery in this Relation but I hope your Lordship will be pleas'd to Pardon them since they proceed from a Clergy-man who may be allow'd such Mistakes and who ventures upon so Forreign an Undertaking to his Function which ought to have been perform'd by abler Pens to express the Honour of English-men to assure your Lordship that I am My LORD Your Lordship 's most humble and obedient Servant and Chaplain ED. D'AUVERGNE TO THE READER WHEN I drew up this Relation I was far from designing to publish it What I did was for the particular Satisfaction of some Persons to whom I am obliged But since I have finished it a great many Friends have desir'd Copies of it which I found both tedious and chargeable to get written over This is the particular Reason as makes me comply with their Desires to have it Printed For I declare that 't is with some Reluctancy that I appear in publick in this case However since 't is done I must needs let the Reader know that as I had no Design of having this Relation publick so first this is the Reason that it has been so late coming out when the French by their early and active Motions do already enter upon the following Campaign And besides this is the reason that I have expressed my self with more Freedom in the following Relation which though 't is an Argument of its being so much the more impartial yet it may be the less taking for it As I am a Clergy-man I think that there is a greater Obligation upon me to speak Truth and nothing but what is Truth And therefore if there is any thing in this Account that is not so or if I have said any thing that may detract from the Reputation of any Man or Country or if I have done them any Injustice in not publishing their Merits I shall be very ready to give both them and Truth Satisfaction as publickly as I do them wrong However I think my self obliged to declare that I have endeavoured to know the Truth and what I do not know of my self to be so I have in that made use of creditable Informations from Parties concerned If I say little of Foreign Nations concerned in the Alliance and which made by far the greater Number of our Army 't is not out of any Principle of Partiality to my own Countrey-men but 't is because I cannot be so well inform'd of their Actions as of our own they being Strangers to me What I say of Grandval concerning his having killed the Mares chal de Humieres Nephew and his Adventures in Savoy as also what I speak concerning the Prince of Brabancon and of the Elector's Design to take him into the Field the last Campaigne to withdraw him by this piece of Policy from the Government of Namur I would have no more stress laid upon the Truth of it but as a common Report If the Publick does kindly accept these my Endeavours it will oblige me to be more exact and curious the next Campaign if God grants me Life and Health and I shall be more early in satisfying my Countrey with it And I pray God so to unite the Hearts Counsels and Powers of our Allies under the Conduct of our glorious Monarch as may answer his Endeavours and our Expectations that we may see the French Power reduc'd to such Limits as may procure a lasting Peace to Christendom A RELATION Of the Most Remarkable Transactions Of the Last CAMPAIGNE HIS Majesty endeavouring to be before-hand with the French this Campaigne came very early over from England to the Hague about the beginning of April where having spent some time in Conferences with the Ministers of the Allies His Majesty afterwards went to Loo to take some Divertisement before he enter'd upon the Fatigues of the ensuing Campaigne expecting till matters were in a readiness to take the Field which prov'd not so early as may be was design'd both by reason of the foul Weather that happen'd the latter end of April and the beginning of May and of the great remoteness as well as slow motion of some of our Confederate Forces The French King who owes his great Success chiefly to that quickness and activity wherewith he can execute his Undertakings and which is proper to the Nature of his Government began very early to move with his Forces threatning both Flanders with some considerable Siege and England with an Invasion to restore the late King to his pretended Dominions To this end he causes most of his Forces to march towards Flanders and to rendezvous about Mons leaving the Rhine entirely destitute of Troops to render the Army in Flanders the more powerful and formidable being pretty secure both by the slowness of the Germans to take the Field and that Interest he had among some of the Princes of the Empire that nothing could be undertaken upon the Rhine by the Confederates before the execution of his Designs in Flanders to compass these vast Undertakings the French King not only drew off his Forces from the Rhine but likewise most of those he had in Savoy and Piedmont leaving Monsieur Catinat so weak that he hath not been able to attempt any thing this Campaigne but even to suffer the Duke of Savoy to enter into Dauphiné and to leave it expos'd to the Fury of the Germans who have plunder'd burnt and destroy'd where-ever they have been in it By this means the French King has not only been able to bring a very numerous and powerful Army in Flanders to undertake so considerable an Attempt as the Siege of Namur but also to think of restoring the late King to the