slain amounted to above 3000. besides the wounded which were not many so that it appears the Garrison was much strâ—nger than the Deserters reported The Governour Basha dy'd bravely upon the the Breach where he defended himself valiantly with his Scimiter in his hand scorning to Retreat or demand Quarter that he might not degenerate from the Honour and Heroic Vertue of the ancient Mussel men nor falsifie the Oath which he had made the Grand Signior either to preserve the Town or gloriously to end his days The Vice Basha being an Officer of high Reputation defended the Castle but perceiving all was lost retir'd fighting into the fore-mentioned Fort at the foot of the Castle which he thought to make good and give the Grand Visier leisure to relieve him but seeing the desperate condition of Affairs he rather chose to implore the clemency of the Victors than to occasion the Massacre of those that were about him and so was taken Prisoner with the rest by the Bavarians and presented to his Electoral Highness The Aga of the Janisaries taken by the Imperialists was delivered up to the D. of Lorrain with some other Turkish Officers of note So that the number of the Prisoners did not much exceed 2000. Men of 13000. at the beginning of the Siege all stout and experienc'd Soldiers and the very sinews of the Militia of all the Ottoman Empire The loss on our side was very small compar'd with that of the Enemies For we cannot reckon above 400. kill'd and about 200. wounded among whom were several Volunteers but very few Officers Colonel Spinola Marquess of Arquato an Officer of great merit receiv'd his death's wound at the head of the Assailants the Baron of Asti who had been twice wounded before during the Siege receiv'd a third wound more dangerous than any of the former to the great hazard of his life The booty which the Soldiers got was extraordinary there being a vast deal of Wealth in the City which the Inhabitants of other Cities and Places under the dominion of the Turk had brought thither for Security as being a place which they thought impregnable There was found in the Town Ammunition and Provision sufficient for a Siege of two Months longer a Magazine furnish'd with all sorts of Arms Offensive and Defensive for above 30000. Men Harness for Horses Saddles Boots and other Equipage for the Cavalry and besides all this near 400. Pieces of Cannon and Mortar Pieces of which 170. were never the worse fixed upon their Carriages It is impossible to give you an Inventory of every thing 't will be enough to say that never any City could be better provided to sustain a vigorous Siege than this was or ever was defended by a stouter Garrison But if the resistance met with were so surprizing much more must be the Glory of so many brave Officers Volunteers and Soldiers that signalized their valour and eternized not only their own Memories but the Honour of the Emperor in gaining such a strong hold and recovering it into the Possession of him to whom it belongs by right of Nature and Succession and which had endured so many Sieges before it could be reduced under the Subjection of its Lawful Sovereign BVDA SEXTO INEXPVGNABILIS SEPTIMO FIT CESARIS Buda six times Inexpugnable the seventh becomes Caesar's The D. of Lorrain after he had prevented any farther slaughter and given all necessary orders to reduce the Soldiers under their Colours commanded the People to quench the fire that continu'd burning in several parts gave the Government of the place to General Beek with a Garrison of 5000. Foot and 1000. Horse till his Imperial Majesty should otherwise dispose of the absolute Government of this Imperial City and commanded between 8 and 10000 Cuirassiers and Dragoons with the Hussars under Count Budiani to pursue the Grand Vizier who having look'd on and seen the taking of Buda decamp'd with his whole Army to secure the rest of the Turkish Fortresses to reinforce the Garrisons and gain the Bridge of Esseck where our General is resolv'd to attack him if he can overtake him in his march To which purpose the Infantry was embark'd upon the Danaw to make the more hast while the Cavalry march'd by Land Thus was this great and strong City the Capital City of all Hungary the seat of the Ancient Kings reduced under the Obedience of our most Illustrious and Invincible Emperour Leopold the first after it had groaned under the Tyrannous Yoke of the Ottomans a hundred forty five years who made use of it as a place of Rendezvous for their Armies and a Magazine to furnish all the other Cities in those parts under their subjection with Men and Ammunition to which purpose they always furnished it with a numerous Garrison never consisting of less than between 8 and 10000 Janisaries and Spain's whether in Peace or War And though Sultan Solyman won this important place from King Ferdinand Brother to the Emperour Charles the Fifth in the year 1529. through the treachery of the Hungarian Garrison nevertheless he put it into the hand of John Zapolilia Prince of Transilvania who had call'd him to his Assistance to preserve him in the Throne to which he had been advanc'd by Sedition and contrary to Form by a part of the Nobility after the death of King Lewis slain at the Battle of Mohaes contrary to the Proclamation of the real King Ferdinand duly elected by the four Orders of the States of the Kingdom This Usurper being thus confirm'd in the enjoyment of one part of the Kingdom and of the Capital City under the Protection of the Turks King Ferdinand sent his General Count Roggendorff who had so valiantly defended Vienna under the Command of the Elector Palatine against the efforts of Solyman to lay Siege to Buda but he was constrain'd to raise his Siege after he had lost a great part of his Army General Felsius was sent thither 10. years after But that Enterprise succeeded no better thaâ— the former notwithstanding the Death of the Usurper Zapolia and the Minority of his Son John Sigismund who was under the Tutelage of the Princess Elizabeth of Poland his Mother and George Martinusius chief Minister of State to his deceased Father However King Ferdinand was no way discouraged by these two unsuccessful Attempts but considering the Importance of the Place for the Support of his Crown resolv'd upon a third Attempt To which purpose he raised a more numerous Army than before and gave the Command of it to Roggendorff who the next Year laid a third Siege to Buda and had made himself Master of it if Solyman at the Sollicitation of the Princess Elizabeth had not hastned to his Relief which constrained the General to raise his Siege not being able to make head against such a numerous Army of the Infidels Thereupon the Sultan politickly seized upon the City of Buda sent the young Prince John Sigismund with the Princess his Mother
of Venice to bring 'em to a particular accommodation and to break that Sacred League which our Holy Father Innocent XI so politickly contriv'd and carry'd on at the expence of the Treasures of the Church for the good of the Cause of Jesus Christ and the Propagation of the True Faith In the mean time the great War-like preparations which the Emperour made in his Hereditary Countries and other parts of Germany were carry'd on so vigorously that all things were ready by the time appointed to thunder in upon the Turkish Garrisons The Artillery the vast number of Bombs Granado's Shells and Fire-works the inventions of a Franciscan Monk and the Sieur Gonzales a Spanish Ingineer were so dreadful that well there could not any doubt be made of the happy issue of one of the most glorious and daring Enterprises that had been undertaken in a long time And though the Siege of Buda were in vain attempted in the year 1684. at what time it cost us the blood of 10000. Christians the disappointment of one Campagne and the expence of so much Treasure yet was not the Imperial Court discourag'd from a second attempt well knowing that upon the Conquest of that important Capital depended all the rest of Hungary and the neighbouring Countries True it is the Duke of Lorrain was not more succesful in the first Siege than those other Generals which had preceded him in that Enterprise however he fail'd not to acquire great honour and made it apparent that he might be compar'd with the most renowned Captains which past Ages have admir'd by that noble retreat which he made in the face of a numerous Garrison and an Army of the Enemies little inferiour to his own who durst not make the least attempt upon his Rear for fear of having no better success than at the time of the Siege during which the Duke had three times beaten the Serasquier's Army and had it not been that the Winter was already come which caus'd a scarcity of Forrage and other necessaries for the subsistence of the Armies and some little mis-understandings among the Generals perhaps there might have been no need of a second Siege In the Council of War that was held the last year in presence of the Emperor to consult what was to be done the next Summer there were some who presently propounded the Siege of Buda and to keep the Fortress of Newhausel blockt up that so it might be compelled to yield of it self which was rejected by others who were of opinion That Thorn was first to be pulled out of the foot and that the Expedition of Buda was to be reserv'd for the present year as was done In the mean time there were several Councils of War wherein the Sentiments of the Generals were very much divided the most part affirming That it was first requisite to be Masters of Alba Regalis to prevent the Turks from making use of it as a place of Retreat and sheltering their Army under the Cannon of that Fortress as the Serasquier had done at the last Siege to the great vexation of our Forces Others were for marching directly to the Bridge of Esseck taking that City and then leaving a part of the Army for the preservation of that important Passage to wast all the Enemies Country and so to sit down before Buda Others were for the Recovery of Agria and the Fortress of Mongats thereby to exterminate the Remainder of that Arch-Rebel Teckely's adherents of which the Reduction of those two places would clear all the Vpper Hungary Some propos'd to act with two Armies apart That the Elector of Bavaria should march into the Vpper Hungary and draw one part of the Enemies Forces that way while the Duke of Lorrain Besieg'd Alba Regalis and that the Croatian Army under General Schultz should march toward the Bridge of Esseck There were very few that concluded positively for the Siege of Buda which was nevertheless the Enterprize that the Emperor and the Duke of Lorrain had resolv'd to put in Execution whatever it cost 'em that they might have the rest of Hungary at a cheaper rate keep a door open to Belgrade and Winter fifty or sixty thousand Germans in the Kingdom where the year before they could not Winter above twenty thousand This Design thus concluded upon was kept very secret even from the Generals themselves to whom the Emperour upon their dismission declar'd that he would send his Resolution what he would have done to the general Rendezvous which was appointed to be in the Plains of Barkan upon the thirtieth of May. But because the Auxiliary Forces of Bavaria Brandenburgh Saxony and the Circles could not be there so soon they were delay'd for some days In the mean time the Forces march'd from all parts to the place assign'd as well by Water as Land so that it was a lovely sight to see the Danube cover'd with such an infinite number of Barks and Barges laden with Soldiers great Guns Ammunition and Provisions Bullets Bombs Granado's Carcasses Shovels Pick-Axes and other Instruments fit for the Siege of a Town Upon the 20th of May the Elector of Bavaria arriv'd at Newstadt to which place the whole Court was come from Vienna some days before There his Electoral Highness together with the Arch-Dutchess his Lady were received by their Imperial Highnesses with all the Marks of a tender Affection beseeming the near Relation between Personages of that illustrious Quality the Cannon of the Garrison being three times discharged upon their Entrance Upon the 23d being Ascension-Day the Elector went to visit the Duke of Lorrain who was come to Oldenburgh though somewhat indisposed and returned the same Evening to Newstadt Where his Electoral Highness having had several Conferences about the opening of the Campaign and taken leave of their Imperial Majesties and the Electress his Wife he departed the second of June with the Acclamations of the whole Court and People and the Prayers and good Wishes of all That God would be pleased to preserve the Life of that young Prince who was going so generously to expose his own and the Lives of his Subjects in such a Holy War against the sworn Enemy of Christendom After that his said Electoral Highness arriving at Comorrha was there received by the Commanders and Magistrates of the City with Peals of Cannon and three Volleys of small Shot ranged in double Files and so conducted to the Lodging prepared for him The next day the Duke of Lorrain who had put himself at the Head of the Imperial Army near Barkan came to give a visit to his Electoral Highness and view the Bavarian Army which was to that purpose drawn up in Battle-Array in the Fields near Comorrha where Prince Lewis of Baden commanded next under his Electoral Highness in the quality of General of the Cavalry Count Serini in quality of General of Artillery The Marquess de la Vergne and the Count de Fontaign acted there as Lieutenant-General Marshals of
of the Breach of the Roundel on the right hand The Enemy also began to make a Line without the Breach about fifty Paces from our Works to render the Breach more inaccessible and though they fired continually all night long with their Musquets and slung an infinite number of Stones we had but thirteen men kill'd and wounded And now had we fourteen Mortar Pieces planted that shot Bombs and Carcasses continually without ceasing In the Bavarian Attack but only what concern'd the securing our Works and advancing the Batteries This morning a Polonian that serv'd the Turks render'd himself to the Camp and reported that the besieged were resolv'd to Surrender if they were not reliev'd within a Month and another Deserter in the afternoon came and declared that the besieged had the night before landed five Horsemen ashore on Pest side who were to take several Roads that one at least might get safe to the Serasquier and press him to hasten the Relief that he had promis'd On the other side the Duke of Lorrain sent a Detachment of Horse toward Voitfar to destroy the Grass and Corn and watch the Motion of the Enemy Of this some Tartars had Intelligence and snapt some of our Forragers on the other side of the Danaw they also took some Horses and two Grooms belonging to Prince Lewis of Baden who were in St. Marget's Island July 5. Last night sixty Granadeers with some Pioneers were commanded to go and ruin the Line which the Enemy had the day before begun before the breach of the Roundel which succeeded so well that they filled up the breach without the loss of more than two Soldiers By this time also the breaches were made wider and wider as well where the Lorrainers as where the Bavarians attacked and what the Turks repaired in the night was by us overthrown in the day time And now all the Bavarians were come up and joyned together in their Quarters upon whom the Enemy made a Sally in the night time and though they were bravely received and purfued to the very Gates of the City yet they lost many gallant and stout Men and among the rest the Son of Camp-Marshal-General Dorfeling an Ingineer two Lieutenants and seven and twenty Soldiers besides the same number wounded July 6. There was a Line of Communication made from the Duke of Lorrain's Attack to that of the Brandenburghers not above fifty Paces from the Gate in the middle and about sixty Paces from the breach on the right hand This morning the Cannon played so furiously that they utterly beat down the two Roundels with the Curtain and when night came they shot without ceasing Bombs and Granadoes that kindled a fire near the Roundel on the right hand that lasted three hours The Duke of Lorrain and General Starenbergh stay'd till eleven of Clock at night in the Approaches to encourage the Workmen with their presence The Brandenburghers also had by this time vigorously advanced their Works their Generals of Battalia alternatively relieving one another in their Trenches The Sieur Fonk Lieutenant Colonel to Souches was wounded in the Leg with six Soldiers and two killed The Brandenburghers had a Captain of Granadeers wounded with six Soldiers and eight slain July 7. Last night a great number of Bombs were shot into the Town which did great Execution in regard the fire was seen to blaze out in several parts of the City though greater Execution was expected to be done upon the Arrival of Gonzales our Ingineer who was lookt for in the Camp within two or three days whither the great Guns Mortar Pieces Bombs Carcasses and other Artificial Fire-works were already arrived This morning the Enemy sallied out upon the Brandenburghers Attack with Horse and Foot but greatly to their disadvantage being so vigorously receiv'd that they were forced to retire in great disorder being pursued under the very Walls of the City there were also preparing their Batteries to be ready in two days when they resolved to be heard as loud as the rest of their Friends Yesterday the Miners began to work upon the Lorrain Attack to widen the breaches and this night the same was done upon the Bavarian Attack where they had by this finish'd two new Batteries the one of ten the other of seven Pieces of Cannon and a third was raising toward the water side to level the attacked Roundel and a gate through which the besieged sallied out very frequently to get into a close way which they had made before the said Roundel Yesterday the Bavarians advanc'd their Approaches to the foot of the Castle so that they could approach no nearer till the breach were enlarged And indeed the Works in the Lorrain Attack were so near the Wall that they could not advance any nearer without lodging upon the breach So that there were above fifty men killed and wounded in the three Attacks Yester night the Enemy shot a Bomb which lighting into a barrel of Powder kill'd nine of our Cannoneers The 8th was busily employ'd upon the Lorrain Attack in raising nearer the Walls two new Batteries of three Demi-Cannons each and upon the left hand where we had not carried on our Approaches as upon the left they advanced their Approaches to the very Wall of the Roundel which being a work to be done so near the Enemy cost us five and twenty Soldiers kill'd and wounded the most part with Stones and Granadoes among whom was Major General Thâ—ngen who was upon the Guard of the Trenches with the Count de Souches The Sieur Bischoffhansen Serjcant Major of one of the Suabian Regiments had his Arm broken with a Musket shot one of Starenbergh's Captains was wounded in the shoulder and Souches's Captain Lieutenant in the Foot As for the Miners that were ordered to sapp under the right side of the Roundel had not as yet met with any Mines of the Enemy This evening others were set to work upon the left side of the middle Roundel and this night Captain Bâ—rger of Starenbergh's Regiment who had been wounded in the Mouth in the Salley upon the 26th of June died of his wound Some Country-men having found a means to make their Escapes out of the City came the same night to our Camp and assured us that there were not above three hundred men that laboured constantly in the Mines and the Retrenchment which the Enemies were making behind the Wall whither to retire in case of necessity July 9. All night long there was nothing done but shooting of Bombs and Carcasses into the City to keep the besieged in Action and to deprive them of their Repose But by break of day the Enemy perceiving that we had made a Gallery of Planks to pass the Miners over to the middle Roundel rowl'd down several Bombs threw Granadoes and other Fire-works with all sorts of combustible Materials in such abundance that the fire caught hold of the Planks and reduced the Gallery to Ashes which obliged our Miners to come away and
which strook off his Steel-cap Baron Gottalisky Captain of Beck's Regiment and the Sieur Vaubon Captain of the Granadeers of Baden were both dangerously wounded with several others However this Post gave us access to the Roundel The 17. Yesterday the Enemy began to shoot from a new Battery of four great Pieces which they had raised within the inner Wall but General Starenbergh giving order to the Gunners to play upon it with several Pieces they so utterly destroyed that Battery in a short time that the besieged could make no farther use of it About noon twenty or thirty Janisaries shew'd themselves upon the breach of the Roundel on the right hand but the Soldiers from the Trenches firing upon 'em they retired immediately The Prince of Croy arrived in the Camp yesterday in the evening with Commission to be General of the Artillery This day Caprara's and Newburgh's Regiment of Horse marched to joyn General Mercy As for the Bavarians and Brandenburghers they did little this day but mind the finishing of their Works and fired continually from their Batteries The 18. We advanced some Paces with a new Line to the right the better to protect our Miners that wrought in two distinct places under the Curtin and to make use of it in the next Assault The Brandenburghers enlarged their great Battery of three Pieces of Cannon Nor were the Bavarians idle for their Miners were at work under the Wall behind the Palliasado'd Trench of which they had made themselves Masters As for the Enemy he seldom now appear'd in the day time but in the night time they kept siring continually and kill'd us a great many men with their Stones and Granadoes which they flung into our Works The 19. The Cannon was planted upon the new Battery and the Line was secured with two little Forts Last night the Enemy sprang a Mine behind our Miners that wrought under the Wall which damnified our Mine into which there was a necessity to make a new Entrance to make it serviceable again Some of our Miners were almost buried in the Earth but they were all fortunately recovered again except the Sieur Libert their Captain whose Body could not not be found Mr. Kerry Brother to my Lord Ouberry a Scotch Lord was kill'd in the Approaches with a Musket bullet together with seven or eight Soldiers and some wounded This morning the Duke of Lorraine held a Council of War where were present the Generals of his Army but the Determination was kept secret Some Deserters also came to the Camp this day and assured us that the besieged would come to no Composition but were resolved to wait the Relief which the Grand Visier should bring them The 20. The new Line in the Lorrain Attack was finished Three false Alarms also were given to the besieged only to harrass them by causing certain Granadeers to mount the Breach who threw Granadoes into the Place upon which the Turks hastning to make defence were saluted with several Cannon-shot Bombs and Carcasses that did good Execution Which sort of Attacks were frequently to keep the Enemy in continual Alarm and in ignorance of the time of the really design'd Assault Moreover they â—gorousloy carried on their Mines a certain German undertaking a new one which he promised to finish in two or three days In the Bavarian and Brandenburgh Attacks there was nothing pass'd considerable only that the Miners hop'd the next night to be under the Roundels They also continued battering the Walls with great fury and shoting red hot Bullets Bombs and Carcasses into the City which did very much mischief Upon Information given that the Turks prepared to relieve the place the Trench of the Line of Circumvallation was made deeper and strengthned with certain Redoubts the better to secure the besiegers to which purpose two hundred Heydukes were added to the number of Pioneers July 21. The principal Work now carried on was that of the Mines which were opened in three several parts Nor could Captain Liâ—erâ—'s body yet be found though all diligence has been used to hâ—llow the Earth in that place where his body was by all conjecture lost He was an Officer a Walloon by Nation much lamented by all the Generals and by all that knew his Experience in the business of Mining Our Miners also heard the Enemy at work but they went on with their own work for all that A Battery was likewise raised for four Mortar Pieces near that of the three Spanish Pieces which batter the Roundel on the right Hand Moreover all the Cannons and Mortar Pieces were designed to be planted nearer the Breaches on purpose to widen them with more ease and ruin the Defences of the Enemy which are behind the said Breaches We had in the Lorrain Attack only twenty seven killed and wounded among whom were Serjeant Major Boeneburgh a Dane and the Sieur Lerneux the fifth Captain of Starenbergh's Regiment The Sieur Gonzale's Bombs and Carcasses have had the success which was expected For by the Report of a Deserter one of those Bombs falling yesterday into the City made its way into a House into which were retired above a Hundred Persons of both Sexes who were all miserably buried in the Ruins of it The Bavarians finished their Battery near the Roundel and began another toward the water side to batter the Flanks of the City on that side And now the three Attacks having made their Approaches to the Breaches that now seem'd wide enough all things were preparing for a general Assault there being two thousand scaling Ladders in a readiness to make false Attacks and scale the Walls while others mounted the Breaches The 22. Nothing passed considerable in the Lorrain Attack nor in that of the Brandenburgher but the Enemy this morning sprang two Mines which did no other Execution than only ruin a part of the Curtin where there was no Breach before The new Battery likewise of four pieces upon the brink of the Ditch of the Roundel being finished the Turks gave 'em a most bloody Serenade by break of day for sallying out in a good number they stole down into the Trench along the Palisade and being come to the said Battery before they were discovered through the darkness of the Night they set up a most dreadful Howling and Hollowing nayl'd three pieces of Cannon and a Mortar and ruined some part of the Gabions of the Battery The Saxons of the adjoining Posts hastning to the Relief of their Friends were put into some Disorder but Prince Lewis of Badens Regiment being the Reserve coming up in time repelled the Enemy with the loss of thirty men stain Which was but a small thing in comparison of the Loss which we suffered which amounted to above a hundred killed and wounded the most part Saxons and Bavarians Among the slain were Collonel Lehel of the Saxon Forces and some inferiour Officers The Sieur Geschwint Collonel of the Artillery was also dangerously gashed and hack'd with a Scimiter However the
looking out between two Gabions was unfortunately wounded with a Musquet-shot in his right Thumb the Cheek and Shoulder but not dangerously however he presently caused his Thumb to be cut off because the Bone was broken About twenty or thirty were this day wounded in the Lorrain and Brandenburghers Attack August 1. A Battery was finished upon the Roundel upon which were planted two pieces of Cannon In the Morning was sprung the third Mine near the said Roundel but tho' it succeeded well yet there was no other Attempt made because the Trench was not sufficiently fill'd whereupon a Resolution was taken to fill it up with Faggots sacks of Earth and such like Materials Our Miners Yesterday smelt such a noysom Stench in one of their Mines that they were scarce able to abide at their Work till they had remov'd two Bodys that were half dead About Noon we received intelligence that seven thousand Turks were posted at Sexaritwan thirteen Leagues from Buda and that the Grand Vizier had begun to pass the Bridg of Esseck with an Army which he had form'd out of the Garisons of Hungary and places adjoyning and other Campanies got together by force among which were seven thousand men drawn out of Bossina and that of eight thousand Janisaries which the Grand Vizier had brought from the middle of Turkie three thousand had deserted him in his March that nevertheless he hoped to be at the Head of fifty thousand men for the Relief of Buda General Dunewald return'd this Evening with the Regiments of Horse with which he had been scouting toward the Bridge of Esseck to â—ain Intelligence of the Enemy The Generals Caraffa and He 〈◊〉 arrived also from Zolnock after two days March with five thousand Horse and some Hungarian Companies The next day Count Budiani arrived with two thousand Hâ—ngarians and the Duke of Lorrain sent express Orders to General Scherffenbergh to joyn him with his Body of ten thousand Men. About this time his most serene Highness the Duke of Lorrain had had some two or three Fits of an Ague However he failed not to appear every day in the Trenches and to give all necessary Orders for the carrying on the Siege To which purpose great Preparations were made for a second Onset upon the second Wall This Morning the Bavarians beat down a great part of the Wall with their Cannon and by the springing of a Mine and made themselves Masters of the second Swinger where they also seized upon the Cannons and Mortar Pieces of the Enemy which they turned upon the City August 2. They continued filling up the Trench and every thing was ready for an Assault which was delay'd by reason of the continual Rains that fell Upon repeated Advice of the Approach of the Grand Vizier who as our Scouts assured us had pass'd the Bridge of Esseck all necessary Preparations were made to receive the Enemy in case they attempted to relieve the Town August 3. A Deserter who affirm'd himself to be a Domestic Servant to one of the most considerable Officers in the City surrendered himself and declared that the Besieged had a Mine ready to spring in the Brandenburghers Attack and had begun a second That they impatiently expected Relief And that of all those whom the Bassa had sent abroad not one was returned into the City which very much perplexed him and that the number of serviceable Soldiers still exceeded two thousand besides the Inhabitants The Miners could not finish the grand Mine by reason of a Rock which they met with But upon the Breaches certain little Banks were made to the end the Soldiers might fire with greater Advantage upon the Besieged during the Assault which was ordered after the following manner About Noon the Trenches were reliev'd and they that were relieved were to serve as a Reserve The first Attack was on the right Hand of the Roundel to which were appointed fifty Granadeers under a Captain a Lieutenant and a Serjeant followed by twenty men that carryed great store of Granado's They were followed by fifty Fuseleers under a Captain a Lieutenant and a Serjeant and after them march'd fifty men with Hatchets The same Order was observed by the Brandenburghers on the left Hand To the third Attack of the midle Curtain the Hungarians were assign'd preceded by thirty Germans and followed by sixty with necessary Officers The Onset began between five and six in the Evening in the Presence of all the Generals the grand Master of the Teutonic Order commanding the Trench They forbore to make any false Attack because the Mine had not done that Execution that was expected But the Duke of Lorrain being informed by an Adjutant that the Elector of Bavaria had absolutely begun the Assault commanded that the false Attack should be chang'd into a formal Onset The Combat lasted two hours in which three hundred Horsemen that serv'd on foot behav'd themselves with great valour as did also the Hungarians But the Breach being hard to mount the besieged well defended with Palisadoes and fighting like men in despair the Duke of Lorrain would not hazard more men to maintain the inner Breach where our men had lodged themselves already and therefore sounded a Retreat contenting himself with making a Lodgment on the right hand of the Roundel of the Angle where forty men entrenched themselves forthwith We had few men kill'd by the Enemies firing but about two hundred wounded with Stones and Arrows which flew like Hail about the Assailants Ears Count Leopold of Herberstein Lieutenant Colonel to Souches was dangerously wounded the Sieur Bischopshausen Serjeant-Major in the Regiments of Suabia carrying his Arm in a Scarf by reason of a former wound was again wounded in the hand Nor were the Bavarians in their Attack less pester'd with Stones and Arrows and the Splinters of Bombs which the Enemy rowl'd down upon the Planks out of the windows of the Castle though to little purpose so that the loss on that side was not very considerable The Prince of Savoy was wounded in the hand with an Arrow together with three Captains some inferiour Officers seven or eight Volunteers and ninety Soldiers killed and wounded Prince Lewis of Baden going in the morning to visit the Approaches received a Musquet-shot which burnt his Justocore and very much bruised his Breast but the strength of his Armour preserved him from death August the 4th They fired with a redoubled Force from all three Attacks to enlarge the Breaches and ruin the Enemies Defences The Line of Circumvallation was also finished and strengthned with several Redoubts and small Forts to flank their Works The Imperialists Bavarians and Brandenburghers were also ordered to possess themselves of all the higher Grounds where they might entrench to advantage The Heydukes were posted all along the inner Wall of the low Town and thus they continued their Attacks with the same vigour as before The Bavarians raised a Battery of nine Pieces of four and twenty pound Ball upon