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B21037	The stratagems of war, or, A collection of the most celebrated practices and wise sayings of the great generals in former ages written by Sextus Julius Frontinus, one of the Roman consuls ; now English'd, and enlarged with a new collection of the most noted strategems and brave exploits of famous and modern generals ... by M.D.A.; Strategematica. English	Frontinus, Sextus Julius.; D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.	1686 (1686)	Wing D287; Wing F2244A; ESTC R4210	174,765	364

were fled and had left behind them their Ordinance Bag and Baggage they took the plunder of the Field This great Victory obtained at Podelvitza near Lipsick caused many Towns of Franconia to yield to the Conqueror Another Battel was sought at Rottenburg but the Imperialists were worsted Then did the King take all the Towns between the Baltick Sea and Mentz in one year The distressed Prince Palatine of the Rhine embraceth this favourable opportunity to recover his forfeited Estate and begs the Assistance of Gustavus who employs all his Forces to relieve him and by this means he got possession again of his Countries which could never be obtained by all the Treaties Leagues and Correspondencies of his Friends in Europe Francfort Ausburg Monachium and many of the chief Cities of Germany were surrendred to the King who met with no resistance till Wallenstein Duke of Fridland and the Duke of Bavaria with a great Army encamped near the Swedes about Noremburg The Kings Army was 50000 strong the Imperialists more but the Swedes wanted Provisions which they took by intercepting such Convoys as were going to the Emperours Army and by surprizing Friestad a Magazine The King sends Tupatelius a Swedish Collonel with a party of Dragoons in the Night They clapt a Petard to the Gates and entred the Town took the Corn and the Cattle that were there and because the Enemies Army lay not far off the King sent a strong party to relieve his Men placing an Ambush for the Imperialists who failed not to fall into it to their great loss Both Armies thundred one against another many days with frequent Skirmishes but the want of Provisions forced them to part after a hot Encounter The Imperialists marched towards Saxony to be revenged on that Duke With the Dread and Terror of Fire and Sword they opened the Gates of many strong Towns till the King hasting to the Assistance of that miserable Country at the fatal Town of Lutzen the 6th of November 1632. he meets with the Imperial Army and resolves to fight them As soon as the Sun was up he implored the Assistance of the Almighty and set his Army in order he himself led the Right Wing the Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar had the Left The King was desired to put on his Armour but he refused to incumber himself with so great a Weight In the heat of the Battel a certain person belonging to the Regiment of Piccollomini sees him at a distance he rid furiously up to him and as he was turning about his Horse he shot him with a Brace of Bullets in the Back to the great grief of all his Army but not to their Discouragement for when they heard of his Death they fell so resolutely on that they beat off the Imperialists and recovered the Royal Body In the Left Wing Duke Bernard had put the Enemy to a Retreat but at that Instant Papenheim an Imperial General came into the Field rallyed the disordered Troops and with his own Forces endeavoured to snatch the Victory from the Swedes but he sound them ready to receive him The day was too short for that Fight it continued some part of the night but Papenheim ended there his days in the Bed of Honour leaving the Swedes to rejoice for a dear bought Victory with the loss of an excellent King who dyed in the 38th year of his Age. When he saw how fond and confident his People were in him he desired them not to trust in him whose Breath was in his Nostrils but in the Lord Jesus who had promised to be with his Church till the end of the World Though the Swedes here lost their King they prosecuted the War under the command of Duke Bernard Kniphus and Horn being assisted by the Dukes of Saxony Brandenburg the Lantgrave of Hesse the Duke of Lunenburg CHAP. XLVI How Prince Maurice got into his Power the Town of Grolle in Gelderland GRolle was a well fortified Town possessed by the Spaniard Prince Maurice had laid Siege to it but was forced to depart without his purpose He studied therefore how to obtain by subtilty what he could not get by force Sometime after he calls together his Troops and declares that his design was to sit before Guelders a Town not far distant from Grolle As soon as the Spaniards understood it they furnished Guelders with all manner of provisions and Ammunition for its defence and took out of other Towns Soldiers and all necessaries to supply that but chiefly out of the Town of Grolle The Prince having notice how naked they had left it suddenly surrounded it the second time and by reason of its want of the Ammunitions and Provisions sent to furnish Guelders he quickly became Master of it Such pretences are very useful to deceive an Enemy and to surprize him unawares and unfurnished for a defence This policy was often practised by the Renowned Duke of Parma in the taking of several Towns in the Netherlands If therefore a Commander be free to discover his design upon any place the Enemy may understand thereby that this is only to deceive him and that the real intent is kept secret for Wise Generals will not suffer their inferiour Soldiers and sometimes their greatest Officers to know their purposes CHAP. XLVII How Scanderbeg with a Handful of Horse and Foot overcame the Turks numerous Forces of Cavalry and Infantry SCanderbeg that Renowned General and Champion of the Christian Faith in a certain Battel in which he was forced to engage and fight with the Turkish Army which exceeded him much in number of men made use of this policy He drew up his Army in such Streights and places as that he could not easily be surrounded And to strengthen his Horse against the fury of the Turkish he lined them with some of his best Foor commanding them at the first onset to charge in the distances between the Horse which was performed with that Gallantry and Courage that the Turkish Horse having both Foot and Horse to encounter with at once gave back and were forced to retire in disorder upon their Foot so that without any great Loss he routed and defeared that vast Army with a small number of Men. CHAP. XLVIII How the Duke d'Alve was wont to strengthen his Army in a Camp against the sudden Attempts of the Prince of Oranges Horse THe Duke d'Alve was a subtile Commander of his days and so renowned a General that his Prince Philip the 2d pitcht upon him to lead his Army to conquer the Kingdom of Portugal though he was then in disgrace and bannished the Spanish Court. When the Prince of Orange entred Brabant with a brave Army well provided with German Horse this Duke d'Alve had in his Army almost all Foot therefore to prevent any surprize d'Alve used to fortifie himself round with Waggons and Carts chained together and beyond them to cast up a Trench round his Army He caused also his Carts to be lined with Musketeers

procured the Duke of Parma the favour and esteem of all the Spanish Army But as the chief skill of a General consists not only in knowing when and how to overcome an Enemy but also in understanding how to preserve his Army and saving it from a dangerous post or drawing it out of the unexpected Ambushes of a powerful Enemy this was performed by the Duke of Parma at the Battel of Mechlin for John of Austria the Spanish General having suffered a considerable part of his Army to fall upon the Enemies they retreated to their great Guns and had encompassed the Spaniards round so that they had been all cut in pieces had not Parma secured their Retreat which he did by placing behind the Hedges some Companies of Musketiers to stop the pursuing Enemy and causing some Troops of Horse furiously to charge whilst he gave a private sign for a Retreat and drew away the Body of Foot in danger to be lost into the narrow ways lined with his Musketeers In the mean while orders were given to the rest of the Army to keep their Ranks and to stand ready to shelter their Fellows at their return for fear the Enemy following close at the Rear should disorder and rout the whole Army as it hath often happened in such like cases When John of Austria was dead Alexander succeeded him in the Government of the Netherlands and in the chief command of the Army Maestricht was first besieged by him where he so cunningly enclosed in the Town with Forts and Works by Land and two Bridges over the River Mosa that it was not in the power of the Prince of Orange and of his Army either to relieve the Town or force him in his Trenches At last after a notable Siege the City was taken and miserably plundred by the Dukes Army By his Policy and Valour he recover'd the most part of the Netherlands defeated the Troops of Casimirus the Saxon Prince who with his German Forces assisted the Prince of Orange and the States He compelled several great Towns to yield to him Tourney Aldenard Dunkirk c. He drove the Duke of Alanson out of the Netherlands and often beat the French Auxiliaries after their unhappy endeavour to surprize Antwerp and the chief Towns which they assaulted at noon day by the orders of the Duke of Alanson who attempted to take and plunder Antwerp by Treachery But Parma's excellent skill in War never appeared more than in the famous Siege of Antwerp With ten or eleven thousand men he beleagur'd that great City full of People defeated all the Auxiliary Forces sent to relieve the Town and at the same time compelled Five other strong Cities to yield to him Gant Brussels Mechlin Nimeguen and Teneramund In this Siege he built a Famous and most Ingenious Bridge over the River of Scala This Bridge was in part blown up and broken by Ships let down the Stream from Antwerp by a notable Ingenier but such was the diligence and Courage of the Duke of Parma that he caused some Beams Planks and Vessels to be laid in that Breach and Drums and Trumpets there to sound to blind and deceive the Holland Vessels that were coming up the River the next morning to relieve Antwerp with Provisions so that notwithstanding this discouragement and the loss of his Soldiers killed in the blowing up of the Bridge he continued the Siege until the Citizens were forced by Famine to yield up their City He reduced the States of Holland to the necessity of imploring Queen Elizabeth's Aid She sent sent the Earl of Leicester with a brave Army but the Duke of Parma proceeded on in the Conquest of the Netherlands and the taking of several Towns both from the Dutch and English But no Action of this Prince deserves more the admiration of Men than his expeditions into France The first was for the relief of Paris besieged by Henry the IV. The Duke was ordered by the King of Spain to march thither with his Army Henry was forced to call together all his Troops and rise from the Siege to meet the Duke with an intent to fight him But when he understood that Paris was supplyed with Provisions he entrenched himself in such an advantagious Post that the King did not dare to beat him from thence He afterwards retreated back into the Low Countries and in view of the French Army far more numerous than his stormed and took the Town of Lagny and though the French followed him close at the Heels yet he ordered his Retreat so subtilely that they could never fight him The next expedition was for the Relief of Rohan besieged by same King Henry the IV. The Duke of Parma with an Army of about 15000 Old Soldiers Spaniards and Walloons and 8000 French under the Duke of Mayenne went to Rohan and obliged King Henry to depart with his Army Parma at the request of the Citizens assaulted Caudebeck and took it In the mean while King Henry had gathered together his dispersed Forces and finding himself as strong as his Enemies resolved to pursue and fight them They were then about Tuepot in the Chalky Country of Normandy having the great River of Seine between them both The Dukes Army was much distressed for want of Victuals and had received some loss by the French Army in Skirmishes and King Henry had taken great care to cut off all provisions from them But the Duke of Parma in one night deliver'd his Army from the danger both of the Enemy and of Famine He caused great Boats covered over with Beams and Planks to fall down the River from Rohan to his Camp where he caused two Forts to be raised with some Redoubts to favour and defend his passage over the River which in this place is half a League over Upon these Boats he conveyed over all his Cannon and Carriages his Bag and Baggage with Horse and Foot so that the next day when the French Army was preparing to assault the Spaniards in their Tents they saw only Prince Ranuse Farnese with 1500 Men with the rest of their Canon going over to the Dukes Army on the other side and it was not in the Kings power to follow him for want of Boats or a Bridge By this means the Duke returned back with leisure into the Low Countries relieved two great Cities against a powerful King and without venturing his Army to the great wonder of all Europe performed what he had undertaken CHAP. XLIII How the Marquis de Monte defeated five Companies of Foot and Seven Hundred Horse with Seventy Lances and Twenty Five Carabins THis excellent Commander by the Duke of Parma's order marched out of Lovain where he was Governour towards Maestricht to discover the Enemy and by chance met with five Companies of Foot and Seven Hundred Horse At the first sight his men began to fear the in-equality of the number but the Marquiss finding himself too far advanced and so near that he could not well

so that the Prince was never able to force him to a Fight And when all his Forage and Provisions were spent he was driven by that means to the necessity of departing out of the Country into Germany again CHAP. XLIX Of certain times convenient to fight an Enemy and other times wherein it is Wisdom to refuse a Battel IF an Armies Reputation depends wholly upon a speedy success as in many cases If the Enemy be gathering together greater Forces and expects a speedy supply of Horse or Foot If the Country be so at his devotion that the longer he delays the stronger he grows or if Victuals or Money begin to fail then a General should seek all fit opportunities for a speedy Encounter while the Enemy is not too strong and his own party in a condition and resolution to give Battel But if a General hath more Forces coming into him or if he knows that by delaying he may shorten or cut off his Enemies Provisions or if Sickness and Diseases do daily lessen the number of his Enemies then by delaying he may do as much service as by venturing a Battel At the Isle of Rhee the Freuch Army would never offer to fight with the English till they perceived them in a confusion by reason of their orders to Embark But they always followed them close at the Heels till this opportunity was offered to them and then with all their Forces of Horse and Foot they fell furiously upon the English and cut off a great many Likewise in the War between Don John of Austria and the Estates of the Netherlands he endeavour'd to fight the Army commanded by Count Bossute because he understood that Duke Cassimire with 5000 Horse and 6000 Foot with other Forces were coming into the Earls Camp within a few days But the Earl would by no means suffer his Men to venture out of their Trenches CHAP. L. How Lewis King of France stopt the Assistance which the Dukes of Burgundy and Britany were going to send to the Duke of Normandy THe French King understanding that these three Dukes had made a League Offensive and Defensive against him their common Enemy and having an intent to assault and fight them single When he led his Army into Normandy he feigned Letters from that Duke to the Duke of Burgundy signifying that he was loath to run the hazard of a War that he had accepted of the Kings offers and concluded an agreement with him for 60000 Franks and therefore he desired him to forbear sending of his Forces to his Assistance as had been formerly promised These Letters the King caused to be sent by an Herald to the Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany who though they suspected them to be false yet because they received a confirmation from the Contents from other hands but by the procurement of the King they caused their Armies to be speedily disbanded By this means the King obtained by policy what otherwise he could not well get by Force without the hazard of his Army for he having thus weakned his Enemies made with them what agreement he thought convenient and they were forced to yield to his Terms of peace CHAP. LI. A Policy used by a French General to destroy the Neapolitan Army strongly Encamped WHen there was a dispute between Ferand King of Naples and Charles King of France about the Crown of that Kingdom Ferand understanding that the French Army was too potent for him to encounter with only with his faint-hearted Neapolitans resolved to entrench himself between certain Hills The French General finding him in that advantagious Post that he did not dare to meddle with him divided his Army secretly in the night and sent a strong Party round about to assault King Ferand behind whilst he in the Interim with small Parties skirmished and kept them in continual play At last when the party of Men which were to surround the Neapolitan Army and to fall upon their Backs were come to the appointed place the French assaulted the Enemy behind and before entred their Trenches and routed them Xerxes in the same manner recovered the Streights of Thermopyle in Greece defended by a handful of Lacedemonians under Leonidas their Captain CHAP. LII How Prince Maurice took the Town of Gertrudenberg WHen the Prince of Orange besieged Gertrudenberg by Sea and Land he understood by a Prisoner taken from the Enemy that once every day the Governour with the chief Magistrates were wont to go up privately to take a view of the Hollanders Trenches and of the Country round about that they might see for an opportunity to sally out upon them immediately he took advantage of this Information and secretly ordered a Gentleman of his Army to run away to the Town under pretence that he had murdered a Man and therefore fled to save his Life The Gentleman according to appointment discover'd to the Princes Army by playing upon a Pipe when the Governour was in the Steeple The great Guns being then ready and waiting for the purpose were all immediately discharged at one time and battered down the Steeple killed the Governour with the Magistrates which as soon as the Prince suspected he caused a sudden assault to be made and carried the Town for want of a Governour and Orders to defend it For such a Consternation that must needs happen at the unexpected destruction of a Chieftain either in an Army or in a Garrison the Soldiers Hearts must needs be broken and before orders can be given to supply his place by another the Enemy hath a great advantage upon the party that he commands CHAP. LIII How the States of Holland took the Town of Breda by surprize THey hired a certain Master of a Boat who was wont to carry into the City Provisions of Bread and Beer and other necessaries for maintenance of the Garrison In this Boat they stored a Company of Stout and Valiant Gentlemen and covered them over with Turves and other things The Boatsman according to his custom brings strong Liquors upon the Guard makes them all drink plentifully till they were drunk whilst they were in that Condition he passeth the Guard and enters into the Town with his Company of Men who immediately gave notice to their Friends without by casting up a Ball of Wild-fire to fall on A Gate was broken open for them then did they disperse themselves about the Town killed all that resisted and mastered the Guard Such surprizes have been made with Carts full of Corn Hay c. wherein have been hid Soldiers and sometimes a Cart hath been purposely broken and out of order at the Gate of a Town to hinder the shutting of it and a party of the Enemy hath then set upon and entred the Town CHAP. LIV. How the Garrison of the Skonse at Zutphen was surprized THe Spaniards to strengthen the more the City of Zutphen in Gelderland had built a very strong Skonse in such a place as hindred any Enemy from making their approaches